VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

far relative/distant relative: yuan fang qin qi

feud: (n)long time rival/fight
ie. family feud

astro sign/horoscope: xing zuo

superstitious: mi xin

snarky: 尖锐批评的; 讽刺挖苦的;

befall: occur/happen to someone (for something you cannot control / natural thing)
ie….  fate befall me.
ie. A deafening silence befell us.

palpable: able to be noticed/grasped  <> impalpable
ie. Her dislike for me was palpable.

credit hogger: someone who hogs all the credit

sly:诡诈的; 狡诈的; 诡秘的(表示自己知道别人不知道的秘密);

street smart／quick－witted／petty tricks： 小聪明

Grammar

introduce: launch, inform, refer, recommend, suggest, background, tell you about, present to you …

considering I give you a situation

he has to spend one day on my house

my life will be wasting for this event

she asked me to help her out from a challenging situation

we have been talking more than 20 minutes

she started to talk about pointless stuff

she’s one who didn’t include me on her present list

it’s so fake, so pretentious

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let me give you a brief introduction about the project
let me give you a brief background/some background

we refer fresh grads to local companies

we also have a great number of companies which find hard to acquire talents
we also have a great number of companies who find it hard/have difficulties in/ to acquire talents

I don’t want to have extra relationship/problems with her.
I don’t want to be associated with her any further/have any further association with her.

My partner kept missing 3 deadlines.
My partner missed 3 consecutive deadlines./3 deadlines in a row.

She started to gui che…
She started to talk nonsense … talk some nonsense about how she can’t get a stable signal or can’t find a vpn blahblahblah…

I will be sit down at the front door of the office.
I will sit near the front door of the office.

he has limited capacities for this project
he has limited time for this project/he is preoccupied with/by other projects

he is 擦屁股
he is literally cleaning up after her mess/fixing her problems.

Is there anything I can help for?
Is there anything I can help with?

some of them did/were subjected to …

Pronunciation