VIP Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

stiff (adj): 1-If you are stiff or part of your body is stiff, your muscles hurt when they are moved.
（人或身体部位）僵硬的，强直的
E.g.: Sitting still at a computer all day can give you a stiff neck.
E.g.: I’m a bit stiff after that run yesterday.
E.g.: She suffers terribly in the winter when it’s cold and her joints get stiff.

District－区
Mom took me to a massage parlor/place in Changning district

parlor (n):a business that provides a stated type of personal service or sells a stated product（提供某种服务或销售某种商品的）店堂，店铺
E.g.: a beauty parlor
美容院
E.g.: an ice-cream/pizza parlor
冷饮店／比萨屋

medicated liquor-药酒

Massage had left me with a pleasant feeling.

pleasant><unpleasant

treat (v): to use drugs, exercises, etc. to cure a person of a disease or heal an injury
医治
E.g.: He is being treated for a rare skin disease.
他患了一种罕见的皮肤病，正在接受治疗。
E.g.: Western medicine tends to treat the symptoms and not the cause.
西医往往治标不治本。

light (adj)-not weighing a lot
轻的；轻便的
Here, take this bag – it’s quite light.
给你，拿着这个袋子——很轻的。
He’s a few pounds lighter than he used to be.
他的体重比以前轻了几磅。

A light meal is small and easy to digest.
（食物）少量的，简便的，清淡的
E.g.: I don’t eat much for lunch – just a light snack.
我午饭吃得不多——只吃一点儿小吃。

bathtub-浴缸

bathhouse-澡堂

go for something-to choose something
选择
E.g.: Instead of movies, I always go for books.

Grammar

Watch a Movie vs See a Movie

E.g.: We watched a movie yesterday.
This would imply we watched a movie at home (TV/DVD…)

E.g.: We saw a movie yesterday.
This would imply that we did so by going to a movie theater.

We can also say that -we went to the movie theater and watched Ice Age.

I watched ‘Phantom of the Opera’ last night. =  I was at home.

I saw ‘Phantom of the Opera’ last night.= I was at a theatre or cinema.