三人行，必有我师(焉)

(Chengyu game still in progress in Monday's post! We're up to number 18 now.)

本周的部首
乙 part 3
买, buy; 乱, confusion/disorder; 乳, breast/milk ( ”pinyin” )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=5

语法
"together, as a group" 一齐 vs 一同
https://mandarinbean.com/yiqi-yitong/

词汇
裙子, skirt/dress (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
你若乱了，整个龙城都乱了, if you lose your head, so will all of Dragon City
[no 一同/一齐 or 裙子]

Me:
你能不能吃乳制品？
我要买一条小黑裙子。

(wow, the previous post's title got interesting. Still, why not)
(I do have hopes of reintroducing some grammar from around next week! Stick with us.)

成语
义愤填膺 to feel righteously indignant (lit. righteous anger fills the breast)
教不严师之惰 spare the rod and spoil the child (lit. teaching without severity is laziness on the part of the teacher)
鼻孔朝天 nose in the air (lit. and fig.)
( ”pinyin” )

词汇
被, cover (also the passive voice marker); 被子, quilt (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
看红姐那么义愤填膺的样子，也不知道谁才能入她法眼, seeing Hong-jie so righteously annoyed, I have no idea who would be good enough for her
教不严师之惰。如果我能早一点发现的话... Severity is essential for a teacher. If I had noticed a little earlier...
你装出一副鼻孔朝天的样子给谁看, no one's here to se you acting so stuck up
[no 被子]

Me:
她虽然看起来鼻孔朝天，但是其实只是很害羞。
给我带个被子，今天很冷。

语法
(verb phrase) + 值得 , "worth doing it" (bottom of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22to_be_worth%22_doing_with_%22zhide%22

词汇
瓶， 瓶子, bottle (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
教授，拼尽全力守护一个人，真的值得吗？值得。Professor, is it really worth giving everything you have to protect one person? Yes.
你这样做值不值得呀, is it worth it you doing this?
我这有一瓶好酒, I have a bottle of the good stuff

Me:
我觉得他的牺牲不值得。
小心开那个瓶子。

语法
难道 + question + 吗, "surely it's not..."
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Rhetorical_questions_with_%22nandao%22
(Easy to remember via Japanese (まさか) or Korean (설마) equivalents)

词汇
句, 句子, sentence (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
你说这难道是我的错吗, you aren't saying it's my fault, are you?
难道我连拒绝的权利都没有吗, you mean I don't even have the right to refuse?
每一句话我都记得, I remember every phrase

Me:
难道你忘了当年的事情吗？
用一天一句能慢慢地学习。

语法
在 + topic + 方面, "in relation to ~~" (bottom of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Idiomatic_phrases_with_%22zai%22

词汇
子, noun suffix; also 包子, bun; 杯子, (drinking) glass; 本子, book/notebook; 儿子, son; 房子, house; 孩子, child; 桌子, table ( pinyin )