怎么得了 zěn me dé liǎo

DEFINITIONS

  1. how can this be?
  2. what's to be done?
  3. what an awful mess!

CHARACTERS

怎 zěn what? why? how?
么 me interrogative particle; repetition of a tune small; tender
得 dé obtain, get, gain, acquire
了 liǎo to finish; particle of completed action