Demo Class Notes (Lily Zuo – Ally)

Vocabulary

conditional/hypothetical: xu ni

file a complaint: formal complaint

fallible: able to fail

fallibility: bug/glitch

Grammar

would: hui, = habit, what usually happens

Speaking exercise

Not that I know of.

They will ask me: is there any last name is right in Chinese?
They would ask me: is there any last name which/that means right in Chinese?

You don’t have a boundary of work and life.
You don’t have a boundary between work and life.
There’s no boundary between work and life.
People like my boss can’t understand boundaries between…

to complain her outlook.
to complain about her outlook.

My boss
She’s really mean. She shouted to one of my colleague at least for 5 minutes. Everyone was shocked by that time and nobody could stop her. I was sitting next to her. She arranged this seat. I can’t stop that, because I was not in the marketing department. She was so demanding by that time. Sometimes, it was like you can do either way, she always demand people to do things by her way.

She’s really mean. She shouted at one of my colleague for at least 5 minutes. Everyone was shocked at/in that time but nobody could stop her. I was sitting next to her. She arranged this seat/the seating. I can’t stop that, because I was not in the marketing department. She was so demanding at that time/then.

Sometimes, it was like you can do either way, she always demand people to do things by her way.
Sometimes, there are so many methods or ways to do things, but she always asks people to do things according to her requirements.
There are always different ways to do the same thing, but people always have to listen to her./but she always has to have things done her way.

I couldn’t do it anymore. It was in turns.