你以为谁都像你呢
“You think everyone is like you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The old man is quite particular.”
你以为谁都像你呢
“You think everyone is like you?”
干吗呢
“What are you doing?”
“You're the odd one here, not everyone shares your weird habits.”
Among familiar peers in China, using sharp rhetorical retorts is a standard way to demonstrate closeness and mutual comfort rather than true rudeness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
you think everyone is like you; don't project your habits onto others
A very frequent spoken comeback used to reject someone's generalization or poke fun at their uniqueness.
Adds a rhetorical, skeptical bounce to the counter-question, underscoring the speaker's disbelief.