F2F Class Notes (Raph)[W]

Vocabulary

Take (something) into account: 1- to consider or remember something when judging a situation.
E.g.: I hope my teacher will take into account the fact that I was ill just before the exams when she marks my paper.
E.g.: A good architect takes into account the building’s surroundings.

Salvage (v): 1- to try to make a bad situation better. 2- to save goods from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that has sunk or been damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood.
E.g.: It was a desperate attempt to salvage the situation.
E.g.: After the fraud scandal he had to make great efforts to salvage his reputation.
E.g.: He was happy to find that his gold coins had been salvaged from the shipwreck
E.g.: After the fire, there wasn’t much furniture left worth salvaging.

Shipwreck (n): 1- an accident in which a ship is destroyed or sunk at sea, especially by hitting rocks, or a ship that has been destroyed or sunk in such an accident.
E.g.: The danger of shipwreck is much greater in fog.
E.g.: There have been many shipwrecks along this dangerous stretch of coastline.

Anatomy (n): 1- the scientific study of the body and how its parts are arranged.
E.g.: An understanding of human anatomy is important to a dancer.
E.g.: He later became professor of anatomy at Kiel.
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Grammar

I am part-time for learning it. – I’m learning it part-time.

Original:

“KE ZHOU QIU JIAN” is a Chinese idiom and it describes a person be stubbornly stupid and can’t take the view of development to changing situation.

STORY:
Long long time ago. a man from the Chu State was crossing the river. Suddenly, his sword fell into the river! He didn’t salvage the sword immediately, he just marked the boat where the sword fell down. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the river to searched for the lost sword at the place where he had marked the boat. Naturally, he can’t find his sword in the way. This is the orign story of the Chinese idiom. Nowadays, we use the idiom to say like that “You just mark the boat in order to find the lost sword! Haven’t you seen that the situation had changed a lot ?”

Edited:

“KE ZHOU QIU JIAN” is a Chinese idiom which describes a person who acts stubbornly stupid and doesn’t take into account the development of a changing situation.

STORY:
A long, long time ago, a man from the Chu State was crossing the river and suddenly, his sword fell into the water! He didn’t salvage the sword immediately, he just marked the boat where the sword fell down. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the river to search for the lost sword at the place where he had marked the boat but, naturally, he couldn’t find it. This is the origin story of the Chinese idiom. Nowadays, we use it by saying: “You just marked the boat in order to find the lost sword! Haven’t you seen that the situation has changed a lot ?”.

Pronunciation

Stubborn: /ˈstʌb.ɚn/

Stubbornly: /ˈstʌb.ɚn.li/

Salvage:  /ˈsæl.vɪdʒ/

Situation:  /ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/

Shipreck:  /ˈʃɪp.rek/

Anatomy: /əˈnæt̬.ə.mi/