社会保障吗？他们在说什么笑话？

Social security? Who do they think they're kidding.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 社会保障 shèhuìbǎozhàng social security
=2 吗 má (coll.) what?
=2 吗 mǎ used in 吗啡 mǎfēi
=2 吗 ma (question particle for "yes-no" questions)
3 他们 tāmen they; them
4 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
=5 说 shuì to persuade
=5 说 shuō
  1. to speak; to talk; to say
  2. to explain; to comment
  3. to scold; to tell off
  4. (bound form) theory; doctrine
=5 说 shuō variant of 说 shuō
6 什么 shénme
  1. what?
  2. something; anything
=7 笑话 xiàohua
  1. to laugh at; to mock
  2. ridiculous; absurd

classifier: 個
=7 笑话 xiàohuà
  1. (figuratively) joke; sham
  2. joke (in spoken form) (Classifier: 句 m; 個／个 c)
  3. joke; sham
  4. to mock; to ridicule; to laugh at