"你们在笑什么？"
Translation:What are you laughing at?
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You can't insist that 你们 means "you guys" or "you people" in some questions, and in other questions insist that it means "you".
Be consistent. Or even better, be flexible.
I cast my vote for more flexibility that's for sure. I also wish that here they would give examples of the difference between laughing at and laughing about something or someone.
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A Chinese native can correct me on this. The distinction may not be present in the vocabulary and would need to be decided from context, in which case, the sentence would be better translated as "What are you laughing for?"
This is my first time seeing this sentence structure. Do you say 你们在看什么? to ask "What are you looking at?" ?
"what are you people laughing at" should be accepted. Are you going to penalise me for trying to follow collective nouns or not?
are we sure that works? the meanings in English are quite different but maybe not in Chinese
Yes. In my opinion, "What are you laughing about?" or "Why are you laughing?" are even the better translations here.
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Daaang! I finally can passive-aggressively attack people in Chinese, in order to hide or even low key express my insecurities.
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Rrrrrgh. Duolingo needs to add a Report option for, "This sentence repeated, even though I got it right the first time through, because there weren't enough model sentences to make a full lesson." This used to happen all the time in Swahili. C'mon, guys!
English tranlation implies that the person laughing is being rude in that "laughing at" implies ridicule and mockery. If the Chinese doesn' t imply that then "laughing about" would be a much better translation.
"Why are you laughing" should really be accepted. It would be the much more common phrase in English to express this meaning.
