搞什么啊
“What is going on?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不要做文字上的记录
“do not make any written records.”
搞什么啊
“What is going on?”
这要干什么
“What is this for?”
“What kind of shady business is this? Make sense of this for me!”
While Chinese workplace communication is often indirect with superiors, peers frequently use blunt rhetorical questions like this to express mutual disbelief or push back against unusual instructions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what on earth are you doing / what's going on
A very common colloquial expression used to show irritation or disbelief when something unexpected occurs.
Intensifies the interrogative tone and emphasizes the speaker's bewilderment or annoyance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
“What's going on here? Fatty, it's them.”
“- What's going on? - It's the sixth floor. The one on the sixth floor.”
“What is going on? What does this woman do?”
“What the heck? What did he send?”