Online Class Notes (Tibo)

my nephew stay at home for a super long time and my uncle is getting crazy they think they don’t like the kids. -> my nephew stayed at home for a long time and my uncle started to get tired of him. He felt he didn’t like kids anymore / it made him question his love for kids.
I planned to go to Japan and I cancelled my ticket. I get fully refund -> fully refunded / a full refund

and I get a house Airbnb and the host is Chinese and she totally understand me. -> I booked an airBNB but since the host was Chinese she allowed to cancel easily.

the company makes sure we are 1m away / we sit 1m apart

If I work from home for a while I think working In the office is better and vice versa.

during that time they gave me full pay but now we were announced/told we should have 2 days of unpaid leaves.
Many foreign companies have similar situations. / many companies implemented similar measures.

Vocabulary

to furlough : tell employees not to come to work without laying them off
Many people were furloughed with reduced pay because of the virus

triathlon : usually swimming / running cycling
He won the triathlon

triathlete : tri athlete

trilingual : able to speak 3 languages
Tom is trilingual he speaks Chinese, Japanese and English

ramadan (n) : Month during which muslims cannot eat during the day
Muslims don’t eat during the the day time during ramadan

pork (n) ： pig meat
Muslims do not eat pork

order (n/v): tell someone what to do / give buy promise on a product
He ordered the soldiers to stay home
I put an order for masks on taobao

minorities : 民族
There are many minorities in China

to suffocate: find it hard to breathe
If you wear a mask for too long you may suffocate

umpire:(n) person who makes sure you play by the rules
The umpire made sure players were not cheating

virtual (adj) : not real / not existing physically
He bought a virtual gun in a game

tangible (adj) which can be touched
We need tangible evidences of their wrongdoing

solidarity (n) : mutual support
Unemployment benefits rely on the principle of solidarity

to counter : fight back / be in opposition
We tried to counter the new competitors by reducing our price

to lift : to remove / to cancel
The quarantine was lifted in March

to infringe : to break the law / do something illegal
We used their logo without asking them, we infringed on their IP.

infringement (n)
This layer works on intellectual property infringements

Pronunciation

furlough (ferlo)