Online Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

We have several key member leave our team so we have to take their tasks.
They have been seriously affected by this epidemic.
Our client business has been affected and so is my company.
I already heard a lot of company they have let a lot of people go. One is from IBM because my team members they came from IBM so they have some friends there and most of them have been laid off. It is a tough period and it is hard to find new jobs.

I think maybe he wants to cheer people up and encourage them to go through this tough time.

In the latest one month, American people have gone through several times the stock market dropped sharply.
I think this is a reflection of people’s emotion and panic about the future.
They need this money to focus the current and maybe they don’t have enough confidence in the market growth in the future.

I have a limited knowledge about the stock market but I am not sure if it is enough to use the money which is paid by people to rescue some companies …
but recently China government launched a plan they have a lot of money to save the market but not for all the companies. they want to rescue the industries.

I don’t think it is fine.

Yesterday evening there is a middle age man next to me he didn’t wear the mask and he even coughed. I was so scared I just ran away even I didn’t finish my dinner.
I cannot understand why they are so brave. I think they don’t take responsibilities to themselves and others.

I think people should keep distance from each other. When I am back to office we are requested to requested to stay 1m away from each other.
If you see two people they are too close.

We cannot turn out the air conditioner nor open the window so we have to strictly limit the people coming to the office and require them to wear a mask and wash hands. We are not allowed to have more than 3 people in the meeting room.

some people who are required for quarantine were sent to this hotel but there is some quality issue of this hotel and the tragedy happened.

as I know there are more than 70 people living and only 40 people have been rescued. I guess it is quality issue of this hotel and after this tragedy happened the whole city launched a quality check for all the hotels and building.

We had several key member leave our team so we had to take  over their tasks.
They have been seriously affected by this epidemic.
Our client’s business has been affected and so is my company.
I already heard a lot of companies they have let a lot of people go. One is from IBM because my team members they came from IBM so they have some friends there and most of them have been laid off. It is a tough period and it is hard to find new jobs.

I think maybe he wants to cheer people up and encourage them to go through this tough time. / he wants to keep morale high / boost their morale

last month , American people have gone through trading halts  several times the stock market dropped sharply.
I think this is a reflection of people’s emotion and panic about the future. / lack of confidence for the future
They need this money to focus the current situation  and maybe they don’t have enough confidence in the market growth in the future.

I have a limited knowledge about the stock market but I am not sure if it ok to use tax payers’ money.
but recently the Chinese  government launched a plan they have a lot of money to save the market but not for all the companies. they want to rescue the industries. / offline businesses.

Yesterday evening there was a middle aged man next to me, hedidn’t wear the mask and he even coughed. I was so scared I just ran away I didn’t even finish my dinner.
I cannot understand why they are so brave. I think they don’t take responsibilities for themselves and others.

I think people should keep some distance from each other. When I am back to office we are  requested to stay 1m away from each other.
If you see two people too close they get a warning.

We cannot turn on the air conditioner nor open the window so we have to strictly limit the people coming to the office and require them to wear a mask and wash hands. We are not allowed to have more than 3 people in the meeting room.

some people who were required for quarantine / to stay in quarantine were sent to this hotel but there were some quality issues / structural issues with this hotel and the tragedy happened.

as I know there were more than 70 people living there and only 40 people have been rescued. The whole city launched a quality check for all the hotels and building.

Vocabulary

stuffy (adj) : lacking of fresh air
The room is stuffy because we cannot open the window

circuit breaker / trading halt (n) : when trading stops because the stock is going down too quickly
We experienced many trading halts in the last few weeks.

to halt : to stop
The company halted production

to lay off: let go of an employee.
They were laid off because of the virus

current (adj) : at this moment
The current situation is worrying

current (n) : body of water moving in one direction
I tried to swim against the current but it was very hard

morale (n) : motivation
We need to keep morale high else people will not support us

saint Patrick’s day: Irish holiday
They celebrated saint Patrick’s day

Pronunciation

tragedy