第三年第三百二十一天

[nnozomi]

语法
Double negatives
https://mandarinbean.com/double-negation/

词汇
具体, specific; 具有, possess; 工具, tool; 家具, furniture; 玩具, toy 具体 jùtǐ, specific; 具有 jùyǒu, possess; 工具 gōngjù, tool; 家具 jiājù, furniture; 玩具 wánjù, toy
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我有不得不做的事情, there's a thing I have to do
让我帮你们不是不可以, it's not impossible to get me to help you
我是一名生物教授，说的具体一点，我研究的就是基因变异, I'm a professor of biology, or to be more specific, my research is on genetic mutation

Me:
那个节目不是没有意思，你再一次看呗。
他说的话老是具体不够。

Comments

[duckprintspress]

oh, I've been having trouble wrapping my head around double-negatives from a "memorization" standpoint, this is really helpful as the underlying thinking/grammar. Thank you!

[nnozomi]

Glad to be of help! (although really all I did was paste the link ;) ) Good luck with the double negatives.