三人行，必有我师(焉)

新年快乐！🐍

语法
加上 "also," 从而 "thus," 完了 "after doing," 一旦 "once"
https://mandarinbean.com/coner-vs-yidan-vs-wanle-vs-jiashan/
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22thus%22_with_%22cong%27er%22
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22once...then...%22_with_%22yidan...jiu...%22

词汇
明确, clarify; 明显, obvious; 表明, indicate; 发明, invent; 光明, light; 声明, statement; 文明, civilization; 证明, prove ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
一旦用了肯定会留下痕迹, if you use it once there will certainly be traces left
这人有间歇性精神病史。再加上，他们的团伙被我们攻破了, this man has a history of intermittent mental illness. Also, we've already done for his gang
这么明显你都没看出来啊, it's this obvious and you never saw it?

Me:
你一旦歇一会儿再说。
请你明确一下你的意思。

成语
是男是女是圆是扁 usually used with ...都不知道 to mean "don't know anything about someone," literally "male or female, round or flat"
虎父无犬女 a distinguished father will not have a worthless daughter (lit. "a tiger father has no dog daughter"), more often seen with "son" rather than "daughter" as 虎父无犬子
哗众取宠 playing up to the audience, grandstanding
( ”pinyin” )

词汇
从来, always; 从前, before; 从事, be engaged in; 自从, (ever) since ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
别说他的地址了，我连他是男是女是圆是扁我都不知道, never mind his address, I don't know the first thing about him
虎父无犬女，所长，千金这才艺一定了得, as the daughter of such a distinguished father, her talent must be amazing
可你始终没有停下哗众取宠的笔, but you never stopped moving that show-off brush of yours
你从来都不为自己求幸福吗, have you never looked for happiness for yourself?

Me:
谁写的我是男是女是圆是骗都不知道，但是非常好读。
他从前一点都没有这样说。

语法
从 + source + 中 + result "(to learn/find out/etc.) X through Y"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22from%22_with_%22cong..._zhong%22

词汇
推, push (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
我从你的眼中看出了你对兄弟的执着, I see your devotion to your brother in your eyes
我刚才把你推过去的时候，他的脸上有明显出乎意料的表情, when I pushed you past just now, he clearly wore a startled expression

Me:
我很喜欢从小说中学习别人别国的事情。
别推了，你看不见这里这么拥挤呢？

语法
自从 + (past point in time) "since X" (top of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22ever_since%22_with_%22zicong%22

词汇
里头, inside; 心里, at heart; 夜里, at night ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
自从你当年离我而去，我就戴上了这个面具, I have worn this mask since you went off and left me
自从你加盟我们处之后，这些乱七八糟的事就多了, we've had more of these messes since you joined our team
你知道吗，我在梦里头，我梦见长城他回来了, do you know, in my dream, I dreamed Changcheng came back.

Me:
自从看到他我不能忘记他。
夜里所有的猫都看起来灰色的。

语法
Place + V + 着 + noun, "there is/are..." (top of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Alternative_existential_sentences

词汇
从小, since childhood (why is this a word, not a phrase) (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
你乐谱上写着的, it's written on your sheet music [not quite it but as close as I can get without examining 300 着 usages]
你这孩子啊，从小就是个不听话的犟脾气, child, since you were little you've been disobedient and bad-tempered
我们三个呢，从小一起长大, the three of us grew up together from childhood

Me:
在桌子上放着几朵花。
我从小就爱看书，现在都一边看书一边生活。

语法
从来不 + verb, never do ~ (top of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22never%22_with_%22conglai%22

词汇
鸡蛋, egg (literally "chicken egg", pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Guardian:
她从来不会一个人出门的，she never goes out by herself
我的科学结论从来不骗人, my scientific conclusions never deceive
笨蛋，闭嘴！dumb egg, shut up! (cheating because it's just the second half of 鸡蛋, but always a good word to know 哈哈)

Me:
我从来不吃三明治。
他不太擅长做饭，但是他的鸡蛋菜总是非常好吃。

（今天也很抱歉，评论回复之后，睡懒觉啦）

语法
更, even more, in comparisons using 比 (A 比 B 更 X, A is even more X than B)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22even_more%22_with_%22geng%22
(second half of page)

词汇
从, from (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Guardian:
它比爱情更热烈，比亲情更伟大。It is even more passionate than love and greater than familial love.
你们每一个人都是我的朋友，家人，没有谁比谁更重要. You are all my friends, my family, no one is more important than anyone else.
我知道你从地星来的, I know you came from Dixing.

My practice:
今天比昨天更晴朗，下午肯定会很热。
她从早上到晚上一直学习数学。