VIP Class Notes (Tibo) (S)

review the pdf active / passive voice

They published this data shown they tested 10m people in just a week. -> they published data which has shown / which showed

In average you have to test a patient for about 5 mins so you can calculate in a day how many people they can test. / you can approximate how many patients they can see

That is not the first time, In BJ they have done the same measurement. x00,00o.
How can the Chinese regime say we have the pure data of the inspection for the virus and we assure you that we have no patient tested positive. / we assure you no one is sick.

your X-ray scan will show your lungs became white and they treat you as confirmed positive patient and they don’t treat those patients with no symptoms but who tested positive. / but the asymptomatic patients who tested positive are excluded from the numbers

Why does everyone in China questions America about the test benchmark?  It is because America counts patients tested positive but the Chinese government doesn’t.

another piece of news came out  with a serious problem. The patients diagnosed positive since the end of September. In Oct around 4.8m people visited for tourism

How can we say the vaccine is useful because there are many types of viruses  -> there are several mutations of the virus so one vaccine won’t be effective against all of them.

If a million people is/gets  infected the death rate would be 20,000.

The virus exists and we have no idea where or when it would vanish   / disappear. / we don’t know when we will get rid of the virus.

the aircraft company will go bankrupt 
the exporting business would plummet
everything related to our life.
That is a totally disaster -> that is a total (adj) disaster / that would totally (adv) destroy our way of life

I used to treat a customer to a meal and in average it would cost 60 – 100. Now I have to spend almost 100-150 in the same restaurant and the dishes are almost the same.
Because I can apply for fees / I can get a refund / those are business expenses which the company covers to treat my customer so I think that is not my money / I don’t think much about it because it is not my money but you see already 50% up in the price./ an increase of 50% You can feel the inflation strongly this year.

As for this virus issue I truly hope that this pandemic will be over next May or August or we truly will have a big trouble this time.
The Chinese economy is going down every month.
They are going to be 30% capacity moved from china to India for the latest model of apple phone. -> they are going to move 30% of the capacity from China to India
Apple is the pioneer of consumer electronic companies so it will affect followers.

They see the pioneer has already done this thing / they will follow the example set by apple
This strategy works.

that is the total confrontation -> that is a new phase of the trade war.

America won’t maintain the relationship which it used to have with China.  / the situation will get worse
most elite don’t want Trump to be elected president again.

The democratic elite is against him but somehow I would ask myself. If I Ignore those mainstream media and I would ask myself. What did Trump do wrong?
Why there are so many people dislike him? -> why do so many people dislike him?

the similar scene I have experienced -> I have experienced a similar situation / witnessed.

Vocabulary

first mover (n) : first entity to enter a market
Apple was a first mover on smartphones

frontier (n) : something at the edge of development
a few years ago people though VR was the next frontier but it turned out different

to afford (v) being able to pay for something ( without many issues)
I cant afford to buy another house because I just had a baby
I couldn’t really afford a new car but I took a loan to pay for it and I have to pay it back over 20 years.
Some people live a life they can’t afford and go into debt

bankruptcy (n)
They filed for bankruptcy

bankrupt (adj) closing because of cash flow issues
The company went bankrupt

insolvency (n):
There is a risk of insolvency

insolvent (adj) state of not being able to pay debts
The company is insolvent , you won’t get paid

geopolitics (n)

geopolitical (adj)
The geopolitical risk is the biggest one to hedge against

to hedge (v) : protect against a risk
we need to hedge against the geopolitical risk

to erode (v) disappear over time
Inflation is eroding their savings

diminish (v) decrease / become less
Your energy will diminish as you get older

asymptomatic (adj) not showing symptoms
He is an asumptomatic patient

mutate (v) : change usually biological
The virus mutated

mutation (n)
Europe has another mutation of the virus

strain (n) variety
They discover a new strain of the virus

Pronunciation

kit

under developped

exist

inflation