F2F Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

paintball (n)彩弹, a game in which people shoot balls of paint at each other

unscheduled briefing-非计划简报

heads-up (n): 1-a warning that something is going to happen, usually so that you can prepare for it:
E.g.: This note is just to give you a heads-up that Vicky will be arriving next week.
​2-a short talk or statement about how a situation or plan is developing:
E.g.: The boss called a meeting to give us a heads-up on the way the project was going.

turn 16, nine o’clock, etc.-to become a particular age or time:
E.g.: She turned 18 last year.
E.g.: It’s just turned ten o’clock.

lay off someone (v): 1-to stop employing a worker, esp. for reasons that have nothing to do with the worker’s performance:
E.g.: She was laid off together with many others when the company moved to California.

commute (v): 1-to make the same journey regularly between work and home:
E.g.: It’s exhausting commuting from Shanghai to Suzhou every day.

take sth or sb for granted-If you take situations or people for granted, you do not realize or show that you are grateful for how much you get from them:
E.g.: One of the problems with relationships is that after a while you just take each other for granted.

take something for granted-to never think about something because you believe it will always be available or stay exactly the same:
E.g.: I took it for granted that I would find the perfect job.
E.g.: It’s easy to take your parents for granted.

Grammar

I’m not ambition(n)– I’m not ambitious(adj)

you didn’t need more money-You don’t need more money