"我应该怎么办?"
Translation:What should I do?
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"怎么办“ is a set phrase. It sort of means "what should I/we do?" A more literal translation would be more like "how should I proceed now?" This is asking how to navigate a situation or solve a problem. This phrase isn't used to ask something like "what should I do on my day off?" For that, you could use “做什么?”
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Apparently, zenme ban is a phrase that means what to do. So it's just a phrase that doesn't mean what it literally would mean, like in English you have for example "what's up" but you're not asking about anything that is up.
On another app (Memrise) I am using 怎么办 is translated as "what to do". Perhaps 做 is used with a specific activity whereas 怎么办 is used without one? This is speculation. I have a Living Languages Mandarin program and one of the speakers asks another 你在做什么?
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In my opinion the idea of "how" (怎么办) here refers to "in what way should I do", not "to what extent should I do" as you might have mistook.
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No acceptance of "I should do what?". A less frequently occurring English syntax, but perfectly grammatical.