Online Class Notes (Nicholas)

Grammar

up until this point /

my family keep telling me that / my family keeps telling me that

it sometimes very hard to withdraw  / sometimes it’s very hard for me to withdraw

keep continue to listen to that / keep listening to that / continue listening to that

know regular thing everyday…insistence /  you persist in things everyday even if you don’t enjoy them

the people start criticize this website / people started criticizing this website

slow it down…think about nothing / slow my mind down and think about nothing

help on the mental health / improve our mental health

I went to gym once every 2 weeks / I go to the gym once every 2 weeks

have people criticize about it

I think people doesn’t respect privacy a lot / I think that people don’t respect people’s privacy very much

money can equal to things of safety you know / money can provide you security in your life

to fulfill my need / to fulfill my needs

I don’t think it’s balanced very good / I don’t think my life is very balanced

I don’t have a friend that really go to PHD / I don’t have any friends that are in a PHD program / I don’t have any friends that are pursuing their PHD

When I was very young, I wanted to be a hairstylist

Taiwan has a lot of temple / has lots of temples

many reality hidden / many realities are hidden

why he do that / why did he do that

Speak in past tense in general conversation (90% of the time choose the PAST TENSE VERB)

e.g. what cause him being bad / what caused him to be bad?

didn’t mean to do it in a harmful way /

Pronunciation

live vs leave

fortoon v fortune / FOR-CHIN

Vocabulary

switch the /my mind / turn work off / turn my mind off

“setting healthy boundaries” / for example when I am home I do not answer work emails

“to burn a bridge” / if you burn a bridge with a friend or coworker this means you burn the relationship and you can never cross that relationship’s bridge again – so even if you change change jobs or cities, you should try not to burn bridges with people – because in the future you might need them!

“I am emotionally compromised” / to be compromised / this means that you lost your control

e.g. I don’t let insults from other people compromise me emotionally – I am always in control.

“to give people the benefit of the doubt” / this is to believe that people have good intentions and only believe their intentions are bad once it is proven

I’m more or less the same person / “I’m more or less” = I’m about the same person = I’m approximately the same person

time intensive / a project that requires a lot of time

e.g. My new work project is so time intensive.

Encyclopedia / 百科全书

e.g. Nicholas loves Wikipedia it’s the best encyclopedia on the internet!

“the fall down the rabbit hole…” / you get lost in something – the time gets away from you

e.g. I told myself I would watch only 1 YouTube video, next thing I know, I ended up watching 7 hours of YouTube – I fell down the YouTube rabbit hole.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-internet-was-obsessed-with-this-philosophy-quoting-homeless-man-in-china-now-hes-fled-the-fame/2019/04/01/519e43e2-5220-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html?utm_term=.c33b1e233f5a