F2F Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

sufficient/insufficient

ample (adj): 1- more than enough:
E.g.: You’ll have ample opportunity to ask questions after the talk.
E.g.: There’s ample evidence that the lawyer knew exactly what she was doing.
E.g.: They had ample warning of the factory closure.

affordable (adj): 1-not expensive:
E.g.: nice clothes at affordable prices
2-(used about houses, etc.) able to be bought or rented by people who do not earn a lot of money:
E.g.: They have increased their provision of affordable housing in order to make home ownership accessible to buyers who would otherwise be unable to buy.
E.g.: According to the guidelines, ten percent of the dwellings in the development must be affordable.

dwelling (n): 1-a house or place to live in:
E.g.: There is an estimated shortfall of some five million dwellings across the country.

slum (n): 1-a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city:
E.g.: an inner-city slum
E.g.: She was brought up in the slums of Lima.
​2-(informal disapproving) a very untidy or dirty place:
E.g.: This house would be an absolute slum if I wasn’t here to clean it.

in  the years to come. -in the future- in the next couple years

acknowledge (v):to accept, admit, or recognize something, or the truth or existence of something:
E.g.: She acknowledged having been at fault.
E.g.: She acknowledged that she had been at fault.
E.g.: You must acknowledge the truth of her argument.
E.g.: Historians generally acknowledge her as a genius in her field.
E.g.: She is usually acknowledged to be one of our best artists.
E.g.: They refused to acknowledge (= to recognize officially) the new goverment

shaft (n): 1-a long, either vertical or sloping, passage through a building or through the ground:
E.g.: a lift shaft
E.g.: a ventilation/air shaft
E.g.: a well shaft

tap (v): 1-to get or make use of something:
E.g.: For more than a century, Eastern cities have expanded their water supplies by tapping ever more remote sources.
E.g.: There is a rich vein of literary talent here just waiting to be tapped by publishers.

thus (adv): 1-in this way: because of that/
E.g.: Bend from the waist, thus.
​2-with this result:
E.g.: They planned to reduce staff and thus to cut costs.

thus far-as far as this or until now:
E.g.: We haven’t had any problems thus far.

enhance (v): 1- to improve the quality, amount, or strength of something:
E.g.: These scandals will not enhance the organization’s reputation.
E.g.: It’s things like this that enhance the quality of life.
E.g.: The latest revelation certainly won’t enhance her image.

German industrial conglomerate thyssenkrupp launched its world’s tallest elevator test tower in Guangdong province on Friday to tap China’s “great growth potential” in elevator market.

The 248-meter-high test tower in China’s southern Zhongshan City cost the group around 356 million yuan (US$56 million).

It has 13 shafts, of which eight can be used to test products, including high-speed elevators moving up to 18 meters per second and its advanced products such as TWIN elevators – in which two cabs travel independently to save time and energy use.

The group also plans to test its next-generation product MULTI inside the tower in the near future, which operates without steel cables or ropes, thus can move sideways as well as up and down, according to its public announcement.

The Zhongshan-based tower is to further support thyssenkrupp’s business development in China, which provides great potential in years to come amid fast urbanization, said chief executive officer Heinrich Hiesinger.

China is the world’s largest elevator market with nearly 500,000 units installed every year. The density of elevators in China is rising as more buildings need elevators to meet special needs such as more privacy, which suggests changes in consumers’ mentality and behavior.

Sales of thyssenkrupp in China reached 3 billion euros (US$3.71 billion) in the fiscal year from October 2016 to September 2017, up 15.4 percent from a year ago, “after enhancing investment in elevator and automobile industries,” said Gao Yan, its chief executive officer for China.