Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

carbs – tan shui
glucose = sugar
eg. he can’t eat too many carbs because he can’t process glucose very well

cured – zhi liao
eg. tang niao bing can be cured in cats sometimes

skinny / thin – shou de
eg. my cat is a little skinny

kitty litter – mao sha

vaccinate / vaccination – yi miao

vet – animal doctor
eg. i took him to the vet

neuter / desex / spay – to give surgery to an animal to stop it from having babies

in heat – the period that an animal wants to mate

mate – when an animals has sex

the product is on sale
the store has a sale

compound – to add sth on top of sth else

the discount isn’t amazing for full price products but for products on sale our discount compounds on the sale price.

obsolete – useless / worthless

hard copy (physical) < > soft copy (on computer)

to be in high demand – to be wanted by someone
eg. In modern family, Lily is in high demand because she’s asian and probably good at maths

Dear Sora,

This is Grace from the Shanghai office Finance team. I hope this email finds you well.

I am writing this email to ask for your help with the MPC express delivery service.
Recently, we changed the store parcel storage process, to deliver the store parcel directly to the warehouse instead of the HK office. However, we found that even though stores wrote the warehouse’s address, MPC still sent those parcels to the HK office (please see the first attachment). As informed by one of our / According to one of our HK colleagues, it might be because we only signed a fixed price with MPC for delivering the store parcels to the HK office. If it is / if this is the case, could you please help to coordinate this case with PMC to allow stores delivering the parcels to the warehouse?

Looking forward to your reply. Thank you.