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In different scenarios，3 ways to apologize in Mandarin.
对不起、不好意思、抱歉。

****Script for your second time listening****
dào qiàn
道 歉    
to apologize  v. 你应该向我道歉。
 apology  n.  我不接受你的道歉。

片段一Clip one
对不起duì bu qǐ  
1. 我已经等了你5分钟了！对不起，我现在立刻赶过去。
2. 对不起，我得走了。
3. 哎呦，你不要在跟我说对不起了好不好！
4. 大哥，我错了，对不起，对不起。
5. 今天我让他失望了，对不起。
1.  wǒ yǐ jīng děng le nǐ 5fèn zhōng le ！duì bú qǐ ，wǒ xiàn zài lì kè gǎn guò qù 。
2.  duì bú qǐ ，wǒ děi zǒu le 。
3.  āi yōu ，nǐ bú yào zài gēn wǒ shuō duì bú qǐ le hǎo bù hǎo ！
4.  dà gē ，wǒ cuò le ，duì bú qǐ ，duì bú qǐ 。
5.  jīn tiān wǒ ràng tā shī wàng le ，duì bú qǐ 。

片段二
抱歉 bào qiàn ；to feel apologetic
1.	那接下来我去哪儿啊？真抱歉，您这瘾只能过到这了。
2.	抱歉，我这里不能抽烟。
3.	抱歉，迟到了。飞机误点。
1.	nà jiē xià lái wǒ qù nǎ ér a ？zhēn bào qiàn ，nín zhè yǐn zhǐ néng guò dào zhè le 。
2.	bào qiàn ，wǒ zhè lǐ bù néng chōu yān 。
3.	bào qiàn ，chí dào le 。fēi jī wù diǎn 。
片段三
不好意思bù hǎo yì si ；to feel embarrassing ,to be sorry(for inconveniencing sb)
1.	不好意思啊，今天和你玩得很开心...
2.	不好意思，我们有点事情要谈。
3.	勇哥，不好意思啊，人有点儿多，耽误时间了。
4.	秋雅，你看我都不知道你结婚，我穿成这样就来了。实在是不好意思。恭喜！
1.  bù hǎo yì si a ，jīn tiān hé nǐ wán de hěn kāi xīn ...
2.  bù hǎo yì si ，wǒ men yǒu diǎn shì qíng yào tán 。
3.  yǒng gē ，bù hǎo yì si a ，rén yǒu diǎn r duō ，dān wù shí jiān le 。
4.  qiū yǎ ，nǐ kàn wǒ dōu bù zhī dào nǐ jié hūn ，wǒ chuān chéng zhè yàng jiù lái le 。shí zài shì bù hǎo yì si 。

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Real Life Chinese——3 ways to apologize in Mandarin

课文1：
马丁：  大卫，这是你的书吗？ 

大卫：是。

马丁：   这是  你的  词典   吗？

大卫：不是，这是      山本   的  词典。
马丁：    这 是  安妮  的 地图 吗？

大卫：  是。 马 丁，   这是  你的 本 子 吗？

马丁：     这是   我的本子。   这是     山本    的笔。


课文2：
马丁：大卫，你有本子吗？ 
大卫：有。
马丁：你有词典吗？
大卫：没有。
马丁：安妮有词典吗？
大卫：她也没有词典。山本有词典。 

课文3：
马丁：
      “安妮有一支笔，大卫有三个本子。他们没有词典。山本有两本词典。
我有一张地图。安妮也有一张地图。
这不是我的地图，是安妮的地图。

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这是安妮的地图

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みんなの日本語　Lesson 10
あそこになにがありますか。What is over there?
あそこにトイレがあります。There is a toilet there.
あそこにエレベーターがあります。There is a lift there.
あそこにだれがいますか。Who is there over there?
あそこにスミスさんがいます。Mr Smith is over there.
うちにだれがいますか。Who is in our house?
うちにだれもいません。There is no one in my house.

ベットのうえにスミスさんがいます。Mr Smith is on the bed.
ベットのうえにサッカーボールやかさなどがあります。There are footballs and bulky items on the beds.
スミスさんのうちはどこにありますか。Where is Mr. Smith's house?
わたしのうちは大阪にあります。My house is in Osaka.

スーパーです。Here is a supermarket.
すみません、牛乳（ぎゅうにゅう）はどこにありますか。Excuse me, where is the milk?
あそこの冷蔵庫（れいぞうこ）の中にあります。It's in the fridge over there.
ヨーグルトのとなりにあります。It's next to the yoghurt.

道（みち）で銀行（ぎんこう）の場所（ばしょ）を聞（き）きます。Ask where the bank is on the road.
すみません、近（ちか）くに銀行はありますか。Excuse me, is there a bank near here?
はい、あの高（たか）いビルの中（なか）にあります。Yes, it's in that tall building.
ありがとうございます。Thank you very much.

学校です。 At school.
田中さんはどこにいますか。Where is Tanaka-san?
田中さんは、スミスさんと山田さんの間（あいだ）にいます。Mr Tanaka is between Mr Smith and Ms Yamada.

先生はどこにいますか。Where is the teacher?
教室（きょうしつ）にいます。He or she is in the classroom.

トイレはどこにありますか。  Where is the toilet?
音楽教室のとなりにあります。It’s next to the music classroom.




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みんなの日本語 Lesson 10

(Posted on 27.12.2021)
Konnichiwa! Welcome to Slow Japanese!
This is the last episode of this year (2021). How was this year for you?

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing scripts.
STEP 2. Go to mochifika.com/podcast/ and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
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Crowds of people queued up at Australia's Royal Sydney Botanic Garden on January 23, with some people waiting as long as three hours.

And for what?

A very smelly flower.

The titan arum, known as the "corpse flower," is a tall, pointed plant that releases an unpleasant smell when it blooms. The smell has been likened to things like decaying flesh, gym socks or rotting garbage.

The endangered plant is only found in the Sumatran rainforests in Indonesia, where there are thought to be fewer than 300 of them. It only blooms every 7 to 10 years in its natural habitat.

"The fact that they open very rarely, so they flower rarely, is obviously something that puts them at a little bit of a disadvantage in the wild," said Sophie Daniel from the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. "When they open, they have to hope that another flower is open nearby, because they can't self-pollinate."

The flower at the botanic garden is the first to bloom there in 15 years, and she's been named Putricia — a combination of "putrid" and "Patricia" — by her fans.

Putricia's online fandom grew quickly and globally. A 24/7 live stream established by the botanic garden drew close to a million views in under a week, and people on social media planned to hurry to the garden as the plant opened. In just 24 hours, Putricia's bloom — and her stench — would be gone.

As she opened, the plant heated to 37 degrees Celsius to better spread her scent. In the wild, the smell tricks pollinators into landing on what they think is rotten meat and spreading pollen between flowers.

Up to 20,000 people filed past for a moment in her pungent presence, leaning in for a sniff or taking selfies.

It was difficult to say why the flower attracted such a following — but perhaps the answer lay in the "reverence" viewers felt in the presence of "such an amazing living being," Daniel said.


