About

Xiao Zhang loved his job. Even that time he fractured his arm at the water cooler, it wasn't until the pain

began to trigger hallucinations that he even thought of going to the hospital. And then there was the day

he had a spinal fracture and laughed it off until the company owner personally strapped him to a spinal

board and ferried him to the emergency room. So a bruise? This was nothing. Hardly even visible.

Learning Chinese? And confused by our lesson photo this week? While we're willing to admit that this

lesson doesn't have much to do with a hammer, all of the photos of bruises that we could find were

offputting. And this lesson is going to live in our archives for a long time. So everyone gets a hammer

instead. Consider it one degree of separation from our topic this week, and considerably better looking.

Sentences

哎,你腿怎么青了?

āi , nǐ tuǐ zěnme qīng le ?

Hey, why is your leg bruised?

在哪儿?

zài nǎr ?

Where?

膝盖上。

xīgài shàng 。

On the knee.

哦,昨天摔的。

ò , zuótiān shuāi de 。

Oh,I fell yesterday.

Vocabulary

头

tóu

head

noun

腿

tuǐ

leg

noun

胳膊

gēbo

arm

noun

肚子

dùzi

stomach

noun

膝盖

xīgài

knee

noun

疼

téng

painful

adjective

青

qīng

bruised

adjective

麻

má

numb

adjective

摔

shuāi

to slip

verb

哪儿

nǎr

where

question

昨天

zuótiān

yesterday

noun

锤子

chuízi

hammer

noun