看美剧学英语实用表达：what gives?

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what gives: Used to ask the reason for something;  Used to ask what is the matter or what went wrong. This phrase have come from German borrowing. Germans used the phrase "was gibt es?" as "What is the matter?" or "What's up?". In English, it is commonly used to ask "What is the matter?"

中文释义：What gives?是在英语对话中常用的一句口语，意思不是很多。通常用它的时候只有两层意思，一个是What's happening?怎么了，出什么事了？另一个是What is the news?有什么消息？ 比如：你朋友情绪低落，跟平时不一样。就可以这样说"It's not like you to get so upset, what gives?"。其他同样意思的表达方式："What's the problem?"，"What happened?"。