VIP Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

recognize (v): 1-to know someone or something because you have seen or heard him or her or experienced it before认出，认识；识别
E.g.: I hadn’t seen her for 20 years, but I recognized her immediately.
我20年没见她了，但我还是一眼就认出了她。
E.g.: Do you recognize this song?
“你听出这首歌来了吗？”

the suburbs [ plural ]
​the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle
郊区，城外
E.g.: The company decided to relocate to the suburbs because the rent was much cheaper.

suburb (n):an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live城郊；近郊住宅区
E.g.: Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne.
博士山属于墨尔本的近郊住宅区。
E.g.: We drove from middle-class suburbs to a very poor inner-city area.
我们从中产阶级的近郊住宅区驱车前往市中心的贫民区。

acquaintance (n):a person that you have met but do not know well
相识的人，熟人；泛泛之交
E.g.: a business acquaintance
在生意上打过交道的人

greedy－贪心

scam (n):an illegal plan for making money, especially one that involves tricking people
欺诈，诈骗
E.g. : an insurance scam
保险诈骗
E.g. : The police are warning of a repeated phone scam that targets tax payers.
an internet scam

vice president (n):A vice president is also a high-ranking employee in a company, usually one of several, in charge of a particular department:
E.g.: This is Jeff Walton, our VP of Finance.

commit suicide-If a person commits suicide, he or she kills himself or herself.
E.g. :The Vice President committed suicide by jumping of a building.

bankrupt (adj):unable to pay what you owe, and having had control of your financial matters given, by a law court, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts破产的，资不抵债的
E.g.: He went bankrupt after only a year in business.
仅仅做了一年的生意他就破产了。
E.g.: The recession has led to many small businesses going bankrupt.
经济不景气导致许多小企业破产。