VIP Class Notes (Nemo)

汤姆叔叔的小屋 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
http://novel.tingroom.com/html/book/show/182/

Vocabulary

hearing  (n): the ability to hear
听力，听觉
E.g.: He’s getting old and his hearing isn’t very good.
他年纪大了，听力也不好了。

it’s a general term这是个通称

an umbrella term-总括术语

hit sb up (v): to ask someone for something
向（某人）索要
E.g.: She hit me up for $20.
她向我要20美元。

HMU- hit me up

What does the abbreviation TTYL stand for?
It stands for ‘Talk to you later’.

stand for sth (v): If one or more letters stand for a word or name, they are the first letter or letters of that word or name and they represent it.
（字母）是…的缩写，代表
E.g.: GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time.
GMT 是 Greenwich Mean Time（格林尼治标准时间）的缩写。
E.g.: UFO stands for ‘unidentified flying object’.

cornrows (n): （尤指黑人妇女梳的）玉米垄发型
a hairstyle worn especially by black women, in which the hair is put into lines of plaits along the head
E.g.: Tyler likes her hair in cornrows, but braiding it takes a long time.
泰勒喜欢梳“玉米垄”发型，可是编辫子很费时间。

语文课
language and literature course/class;

segregation (n): he policy of keeping one group of people apart from another and treating them differently, especially because of race, sex, or religion:（对不同种族、宗教或性别的人所采取的）隔离并区别对待，隔离政策
E.g.: The system of racial segregation that used to exist in South Africa was called apartheid.
E.g.: The community fought to end segregation in schools and housing.
E.g.: the segregation of employment by gender

受外公的影响

Influenced by my grandfather

recyclable (n)
recyclables (plural noun)
a substance or object that can be recycled.
E.g.: “the city could sell recyclables at a profit”

profit (n): money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and services
利润，盈利
E.g.: She makes a big profit from selling waste material to textile companies.
她将废弃材料卖给纺织公司，从中赚取大笔利润。
E.g.: A year ago the Tokyo company had a pretax (税前的) profit of 35 million yen.
一年以前，东京公司的税前利润是3500万日元。
E.g.: Company profits are down from last year’s figures.
从去年的统计数字看，公司的利润下降了。