VIP Class Notes (Raph)[R][S]

Vocabulary

Adequate (adj): 1- enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose. (≠ Inadequate)
E.g.: Have we got adequate food for 20 guests?
E.g.: I didn’t have adequate time to prepare.
E.g.: It’s not a big salary but it’s adequate for our needs.
E.g.: This work is woefully (= extremely) inadequate – you’ll have to do it again.

Reinforce (v): 1- to make something stronger. 2- If something reinforces an idea or opinion, it provides more proof or support for it and makes it seem true. 3- to provide an army with more soldiers or weapons to make it stronger.
E.g.: The pockets on my jeans are reinforced with double stitching.
E.g.: His behavior only reinforced my dislike of him.
E.g.: The garrison is to be reinforced with/by another two battalions of soldiers.

Fraction (n): 1- a number that results from dividing one whole number by another. 2- a small part of something, or a small amount:
E.g.: ¼ and 0.25 are different ways of representing the same fraction.
E.g.: Although sexual and violent crimes have increased by 13 percent, they remain only a tiny/small fraction of the total number of crimes committed each year.
E.g.: They can produce it at a fraction of the cost of (= much more cheaply than) traditional methods.
E.g.: Could you just move a fraction to the right, so I can get by?

A drop in the ocean (n): 1- a very small amount compared to the amount needed:
E.g.: My letter of protest was just a drop in the ocean.

Slum (n): 1- a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city:
E.g.: She was brought up in the slums of Lima.

Bring up someone (v): 1- to care for a child until it is an adult:
E.g.: An aunt brought him up.
E.g.: He was brought up on jazz (= experienced it a lot as a child).

El Salvador (n): 1- 萨尔瓦多

Cement (n): 1- 水泥

3D-printer homes to reduce homelessness
(Source: www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1803/180315-3d-printer-homes.html)

Original:

We received potencial straw order from our customer before Chinese New Year. My boss asked me if we can finish this order and send to customer in the beginning of March. I checked with our factory and was confirmed by them that they could make it. After my Chinese holiday, I double-check this order with the factory. To my surprise, I was informed that this order will be delay. I send a notice to my boss at once. My boss push me a little bit and ask me to try my best receive this order as son as possible. Finally, I have to order this straw orders from two factories, but we need to do packaging by ourselves at the Shanghai office due to limited time. When we receive one thousand pieces straws from two factories, it took us almost six hours to do QC and additional three hours for packaging. Finally, we air freight this order on time. Everyone was happy about that.

Edited:

We received a potencial straw order from a customer before Chinese New Year. My boss asked me if we could finish this order and send it to the customer in the beginning of March, so I checked with our factory and they confirmed that they could make it. After the holiday, I double-checked this order with the factory and, to my surprise, I was informed that it would be delayed. I sent a notice to my boss at once and she pushed me and asked me to try my best to receive this order as son as possible. Finally, I had to split the order between two factories, but we had to do the packaging by ourselves at the Shanghai office, due to the limited time. When we received the one thousand straws from the factories, it took us almost six hours to do the QC and an additional three hours for packaging. In the end, we managed to airfreight the order on time, and everyone was happy about that.  Happy Earth Day!

Grammar

I asked him to do my review after one month. – I asked him to do my review in one month. / I asked him to do my review one month from now.

Make looks clean enough. – Make it look clean enough.

Pronunciation

Sweltering: /ˈswel.tɚ.ɪŋ/

Clothes: /kloʊðz/

Café: /kæfˈeɪ/

Diameter: /daɪˈæm.ə.t̬ɚ/

Adequate: /ˈæd.ə.kwət/

Inadequate: /ɪˈnæd.ə.kwət/

Adjective (=adj): /ˈædʒ.ek.tɪv/

Adverb (=adv): /ˈæd.vɝːb/