第二年第三百五十二天

[nnozomi]

语法
在 + time period + 内, "within X amount of time"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22within%22_a_period_of_time_using_%22zai..._nei%22

词汇
闻, smell; 新闻, news (sadly, my understanding is that 闻, as in Japanese and its internal ear character, also means "hear," so 新闻 is "new things heard," not "new things smelled")闻 wén, smell; 新闻 xīnwén, news
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
他是怎么在这么短的时间内就找到完全比配的受害者, how did he find a perfectly suitable victim within such a short period of time?
能在有限的时间内透支百倍的力量, able to exert a hundred times the strength within a limited period of time.
这地方真是难闻的, this place really smells terrible

Me:
我必须得在一天内交货很多工作。
你这个新的洗发水真的好闻。

Comments

[sakana17]

闻 as "smell" is going to trip me up forever because of that 耳.

[nnozomi]

I know! How did the meaning even drift that way? There are like three perfectly good other characters they could've used!