VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

proceed: jixu zuo
ie. How should we proceed with this project?

in particular: te bie de
ie. Women, especially/in particular beautiful ones, love money.

remote (adj): remote areas = faraway
ie. I found my remote control under my boyfriend’s butt.
ie. I can control my Roomba remotely(adv) using/on my phone
ie. Zuley lived in a remote area of CQ./remote ABB/an ABB in a remote area.

frustrated: Zhao ji (n) frustration
ie. Ally is always frustrated when Zuley make sentences in Chinese.
ie. Ally always shows her frustration with Zuley by rolling her eyes.

approve: 赞成, pi zhun (n) approval
ie. When Zuley doesn’t approve, he would ignore Ally’s directions and go his own way.

generate: (v)chan sheng = create
ie. Weiya’s live stream generated 1 million yuan in/of profit.

fail(v): shi bai (n) failure
ie. Zuley failed his homework assignment.
ie. Zuley’s hw assignment was a huge failure.

Grammar

5.21 = five yuan and twenty-one cents/ five twenty-one yuan

1E = 100 million

Speaking exercise

I will care the convenience of the hotels that I will book.
I care about the convenience of the hotels that I’m booking.
I look at the convenience of hotels (that) I’m booking.
I care about whether/if the hotel I’m booking is convenient.

The reason why we went to CQ is we booked … for two nights.

because my friends didn’t want to live in an expensive hotel.

center
city-center, downtown

Chongqingnese = locals

…it is not even known to the locals.

Where will you live in Chongqing?

I want to drink it, especially Today.

it cost us twice than Westin
it cost us twice as much than Westin
it’s twice as expensive as Westin

I forgot one word to make a sentence. (no sense)
I missed/forgot one word/one sentence.
I forgot to make sentences with one word. (One continuous verb action)

Q: How do you give your boss bad news?
A: Ally, I’m sorry to say our campaign/project is a failure. 

Q: good news?
A: It’s a good news that our campaign get lots of budget. So we can invite lots of KOLs for us to make live stream. If we can invite Weiya, our products can be sold well, we can get lots of profit.
A: I have good news to tell you/for you. I’m excited to tell you that, due to/after our hard work/efforts, we got a big budget from our client./the client approved our budget proposal. We plan to invite lots of KOLs like Weiya to live stream for us. Our sales would take off.

The quality of LJQ’s goods/products is better than Weiya’s, but my company prefers Weiya.

Writing exercise

individual: (n or adj) ge ren
ie. The government created the “66″ festival to encourage individual spending.

clarify: make something clear
i.e.: When we make a speech, we need to clarify our points

pointless: meaningless
i.e: Doing pointless things is one way to waste time.

piss off: re nao
ie:It pisses me off when they start to smoke around me.

objectify: make someone an object (lifeless thing)
i.e.: The world is equal, so don’t objectify women.

commodity: market good
ie:The price of commodities has gone down.

wishful thinking: (n)一相情愿
ie. It’s a wishful thought/wishful thinking that she would date you just because you bought her a gift.

process: guo cheng
ie.A hard process leads to good results.

satisfy: (v) man zu (adj) satisfied (n) satisfaction
ie.Governments must try to satisfy the needs of people
ie. The government must try to make people satisfied. (adj)
ie. The government must try to provide satisfaction to/for people./provide people with satisfaction.

subtitles: zi muin
ie.In order to improve my English, I need to watch TV without Chinese subtitles.