Online Class Notes (Li)[S]

Vocabulary

the monsoon/rainy season

entertainment: performances or activities that keep people occupied

written content: material that is in writing form

re-read: to read again

eg. If you have time you can re-read the first 3 chapters.

disciple: 徒弟

pet: home-owned animals

Do I know her/him?

make a loud, screeching noise

screeching: unpleasant, loud noise

eg. I can’t stand the screeching sirens late at night.

keep these ducks as pets

at lunchtime/noon/in the afternoon

e-books – electronic books

paperback – paper books

distract: to make someone stop giving their attention to it

eg. Don’t distract her from her studies

eg. Johnny and his friends were separated because they kept distracting each other.

author/writer

adapt: to change something to suit different conditions or uses 改编

eg. This TV series is loosely based on a novel.

eg. The novel has been adapted for screen by a famous Hollywood director.

pen name: 笔名

Grammar

on – Taobao/ZhiHu/XHS/an app

object pronouns – used when the pronoun is receiving the action

me/you/him/her/it/us/them

We talk to our neighbour   Subject pronoun

Our neighbours talk to us  Object pronoun

They listen to the teacher  Subject pronoun

She listens to them carefully Object pronoun

The content on XHS is a little repeated. Many content they recommend me is I’m not very interested. Sometimes I like DY but I’m not the loyal user of DY. I think the content in DY, it is always about entenment, but the content in XHS, I think there are some written content and video content.

The result is, the duck is eaten by the woman who steal the duck. Many people are sad and many people like me think it is a pet duck and it should not be eaten.

Revised: 

The content on XHS is a little repetitive. Most of the content that is recommended to me is not very interesting. Sometimes I like DY but I’m not a loyal user of DY. I think the content in DY is always about entertainment, but on XHS, I think there are some written content and video content.

The result is, the duck was eaten by the woman who stole the duck. Many people like me, are sad. I think it is a pet duck and it should not be eaten.