I can't make heads or tails with translating this question in a book I'm
translating at the moment. The sentence I'm working on, ironically enough,
leads me to more questions while from what I can gather, is about a question
itself. (Image is provided for assistance and spell-checking Japanese)

> これを一体どうしろというのか？

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here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BYzSN.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BYzSN.jpg)

I know that これを一体 can be translated to 'this' 'one object' / 'this' 'one body'
/ 'this' 'unity'/ 'this' 'the heck...', but the rest I have absolutely no clue
as to what it can mean in this sentence other than that the last two hiragana
のか is a particle.
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What does どうしろという mean in this sentence?
> 「これを一体{いったい}どうしろというのか？」

「一体」 here is a light cuss word meaning "the heck", "in the world", etc.

「どうしろという」 should be remembered as a set phrase meaning "to tell (me or another
person) what to do".

「これ」 would refer to the knife you asked a question about recently.

So, we would have something like:

> "What the heck are (they) telling me to do with this?"

More naturally,

> "What the heck do they want me to do with this?"
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