VIP Class Notes (Lily) [S]

Vocabulary

1.cardio= 有氧
ex: my trainer suggested me to do cycling for cardio.
ex: if you want to lose fat, you can do cardio on an empty stomach.

2. cycling= 单车🚲
ex: I do cycling as a warm up exercise.

3. strict (adj)= 严厉的
ex: My examiner was strict, so I was scared.
ex: Some teachers are very strict.

4. white lie= 善意的谎言
ex: he told me a white lie, he said he’s going abroad but he’s actually sick.

5. monk= 和尚 僧侣
ex: Tang Seng is a monk. 
ex: Kumarajiva has significant status in the history of China as a monk.

6. nun= 尼姑 修女
ex: Kumarajiva’s mother wanted to be a nun

7. pathetic (adj)= 可怜的
ex: He was a pathetic man because he was forced to marry.

8. exhibit (noun)= 展品
ex: we saw many exhibits at the exhibition.

Speaking exercise

I went back to my home in HeNan for 3 days, because that’s my parent’s birthday. The first day is my mom’s birthday, the second day is my dad’s birthday. I and my husband went back together. He graduated from your class. The gallery have lots of interesting about me and my husband, because they like our paining. We have good memory with my parents. Then we went back to XiAn, because that’s me and my husband’s home. We went to a temple, inside that temple, there is a big ginkgo tree. This tree was 1400 years. The other day, we went to two temples about one person. One temple called Kumarajiva Temple, the other is called Cao Tang Temple. Both these temples are about one people who named Kumarajiva. I have lots of interesting with Kumarajiva, because I have heard of stories about him, that story is about he and his wife story. He was forced to have a wife.

Revised

I went back to my hometown in HeNan for 3 days, because those days were my parent’s birthday. The first day was my mom’s birthday, the second day was my dad’s birthday. My husband and I went back together. He graduated from my class. The gallery has lots of interesting exhibits from my husband and me, because they like our paintings. We had good memory/trip with my parents. Then we went back to XiAn, because that’s our home. We went to a temple, inside that temple, there is a big ginkgo tree. This tree is 1400 years. The other day, we went to two temples about Kumarajiva. One temple is called Kumarajiva Temple, the other is called Cao Tang Temple. Both of these temples are about one person who is named Kumarajiva. I am very interested in Kumarajiva, because I have heard a lot of stories about him, that story is about his wife and him he and his wife story. He was forced to have a wife/ to marry.