F2F Class Notes (Nicholas) (S)

Vocabulary

to inherit / inherited / é—ä¼ 

cabin / 舱

decade / 10 years

century / 100 years

to arrange a room / to set something up in a way that you like

e..g When you arrange a room, you choose the furniture, you choose the artwork and then you choose where you put it in the room.

e.g. The woman rearranged the room.

re + word = do this word again

rhythm / 节å¥

jealous / 妒

e.g. My girlfriend was jealous that I had another friend other than her and she was very jealous about this.

e.g. I saw Chenglin’s jacket and I liked it and I was very jealous! I wanted to go buy one too.

circle of control / things inside this circle – you can control / things outside this circle – you can’t control

e.g. Nicholas, you should only worry about thing within your circle of control. How people act, what people say — this is outside of your control. There’s nothing you can do about it.

e.g. I can control my own thoughts and my own behavior – this is within my circle of control. But what you think – is outside of my circle of control.

association / to associate / these are the people the you have relationship with

e.g. I have a friend I go out with him every weekend to get drinks – other people know he is my friend – he is associated with me.

e.g. Chenglin is associated with her production company.

law of association / your life will be like the 5 people closest to you / you will become who you associate yourself with

e.g. Chenglin’s mother told her: you cannot associate with anyone who is a bad student. If you start hanging out with bad students – you will become a bad student.

social circle / these are your friends

e.g. I have a great social circle here in SH – my friends are amazing.

Aquarius / 水瓶座

e.g. Nicholas and Chenglin are both Aquarius and love themselves more than you!

astrology / å æ˜Ÿæœ¯

e.g. Some people believe in astrology very deeply.

aesthetic / 审美 / UH-STEH-TIC

e..g The aesthetic of the film was very beautiful and brought me back to 1930s Japan.

e.g. I appreciated the film’s aesthetic.

color correction / post production changing the color of the film

e.g. I color corrected the film.

Grammar

despite the fact / even though this thing is true / when two things don’t match

e.g. “Most recently she has decided that we need new high-end appliances, despite the fact that this is a remote location and there aren’t any repair facilities close by.”

e.g. Nicholas brought an umbrella to work today despite the fact that it was not raining.

e.g. Despite the fact that he has no money, Nicholas chose to go to an expensive party.

they are producer, director, stylist / producers, directors, stylists

we are often talk about movies and book / we often talk about

Speaking exercise

He really Iikes control everything – and for eg I work as a pro production so he likes to control the music and the scene and the color and the rhythm. And even he likes control me and everyone and everything. It makes me feel uncomfortable and it make me very pressure. I just listen to him. She didn’t allow me  make friends who is not good at study. For eg this one seem like she’s a bad student and she told me no you can’t make friends with she. When im older my mother not control me anymore.

He really Iikes to control everything – and for eg I work in post production so he likes to control the music and the scene and the color and even the rhythm. And even he likes to  control me and everyone and everything / [he controls me and everyone around him]. It makes me feel uncomfortable and it make me feel very pressured. Even though I don’t like being controlled, I just listen to him anyway.  My mother didn’t allow me to make friends who were not good at studying. For eg this one seems like she’s a bad student and she told me no you can’t make friends with her. When I became older my mother stopped trying to control me anymore.Â