第二十三天

[nnozomi]

在 to show an action in progress (be doing something)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_actions_in_progress_with_%22zai%22

Since we've been discussing 在 in its other forms anyway! Constructive confusion.

Guardian:
爆米花呀。我还以为你们在研究长生晷呢。(It's popcorn! I thought you guys were researching the Longevity Dial.)
你到底有没有在听我说话？(Are you listening to me or not?)
但愿你知道你自己在做什么。(I hope you [want you to] know what it is you're doing.) Edited to correct my error, thank you presumenothing!

My practice:
在公园他们在打棒球。
他在喝今天第三杯咖啡。
如果你不在学习，帮我一个忙。

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Comments

[trobadora]

Oh look, it's a song I know! Thank you for linking the translations, that is very helpful. :D

[presumenothing]

It's a lovely song! And I feel like at this point any poems I know (that weren't part of the mandatory-memorisation-for-school set) are only via music: this, and 摸鱼儿·雁丘词 aka Zhou Shen's 情是何物， and 如梦令 aka Hu Xia/Yisa Yu's 知否知否… the one form of literature I might actually consume, haha.