F2F Class Notes (Nemo)[S]

Vocabulary

values [ plural ]价值观the beliefs people have, especially about what is right and wrong and what is most important in life, that control their behavior
E.g.: family/moral/traditional values
家庭观念/道德观念/传统的价值观

recommendation (n): 1-推荐,介绍a suggestion that something is good or suitable for a particular purpose or job
E.g.: I bought this computer on John’s recommendation (= because John told me that it was good).
我买的这台电脑是约翰推荐的。
E.g.: I got the job on Sam’s recommendation (= because she told her employers that I was suitable for the job).
我是通过萨姆的推荐得到这份工作的。

proverb-谚语
Everyone is born to die once, honor and shame/disgrace live forever.
每个人生来就会死一次,荣誉和早午餐永远存在

it is really story-it’s a true story

I listened a story- I HEARD a story

ignore the fact that-忽略这个事实
We can’t ignore the fact that they are definitely different”.
they ignore the fact that these are children.

Speaking exercise

There was this girl she always wore a short skirt, she borrowed from her colleagues, once she asked her colleague to borrow money. For a long time she had not returned and her colleague told her that she should pay the money back. She said that she had no money but she could sleep with him in return.
The biggest boss of my last company was transferred to there because his mistress and his wife had come to his previous company to fight. Most of the man who’s got some money they have mistress, maybe his wife know that but she would pretend that there’s non

There was this girl, she always wore a short skirt, often she borrowed money from her colleagues, once she asked her colleague to borrow her some money. For a long time she had not returned the money and her colleague told her that she should pay the money back. She said that she had no money but she could sleep with him in return.

The CEO of my previous company was transferred to the company because his mistress and his wife came to his previous company to fight. Most of the man who’s got some money they have mistresses, maybe their wives know that but they usually  pretend that there are no mistresses in their husband’s lives.

Pronunciation

was-/wɑːz/