F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)[S]

Let’s talk about Western and Eastern philosophy in the future.

Pronunciation

The V sound

living for the weekend

We can say

Vacant

Vocabulary

I’m down for something – I am open to doing it – Yes I want to do it

e.g. Hey – you down for getting drinks tonight?

e.g. Hey – are you down for getting drinks tonight? Are you down?

e.g. Yeah, I’m down. Yeah I want to do it.

a little high – above average

undergraduate – graduate

active – productive – accomplish

host – to organize and welcome people to a party or event

e.g. China hosted the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

e.g. I hosted a party last night at my house.

e.g. Peter hosted a party – we all got drunk – he paid for all the drinks – he is a great host.

consistent – 一致

e.g. If you can consistently do these things everyday, you will be happy.

e.g. Peter is consistent with his English lessons, he studies twice every week.

e.g. If you’re consistent with this – then you will experience many good days.

If you can hold on to this routine for many days…

If you can keep this going for many days…

living for the weekend – you hate your life from Monday-Friday, and you’re only happy on Saturday and Sunday.

you reap what you sow – 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆

e.g. If you sow anger, you will reap anger.

hide = conceal

Grammar

about my high school experience / [regarding] my high school experience

live myself / live by myself

in totally I was really happy everyday / in total I was really happy in those days

I was really hard in my class time / I worked really hard during my class time

the good day means you dont feel bad / a good day for me is when I dont feel bad

and you dont feel boring about this day / and you’re not bored with your day

and when I do many sports

and it make me feel this is not a bad day / makes

they are not content to their self / with themselves

get happy / get happiness

if you do it everyday you will hate about it

Original

I remember a person but I never look about him – this is a philosopher in China – and I still don’t know perhaps now he has died – but the reason why I think he has been the most influential person in my life it is that that I have watched all philosophy lesson in the video – and I always think he is so wonderful. This is the – he talk about the Dao and Ying Jia this is bian Jia – this is dialectal thinking – means everything has two aspects for example he talk P about a sentence what you need to fall is first re-first what is need to taken – what you need to take is first to – is what taken must first be given.  This sentence is what I remember most. Impressed me quite a lot. Long ago a king want many fields of another country so first he confirm the other kind emperor –

Corrected

A person comes to mind but I have never seen him – he is a Chinese philosopher – perhaps he has died, I don’t know. but the reason why I think he has been the most influential person in my life it is that that I have watched all of his philosophy lessons on video – and I always have thought he is so wonderful. This is the – he talks about the Dao and Ying Jia this is bian Jia – this is dialectal thinking – it means everything has two aspects for example he talks before you take you must give / before you take something you must give something up.  This sentence is what I remember most. It impressed me quite a lot. Long ago a king wanted many fields of another country so first he confirmed the other kind of emperor –