F2F Class Notes 18th May (Peter)

Vocabulary 词汇

Unoccupied – adjective, not busy, free

Ex. During the middle of the month, almost everyone in the office is unoccupied because we have no budgets to review.

Fried Egg/Sunny-Side-Up – adjective, an egg that has been cooked without moving on the pan

Ex. I prefer my burger with a fried egg.

Ex. I’ll have my eggs sunny side-up, please.

Scrambled* Eggs – eggs that have been beaten (mixed) and fried while stirring

Ex. A popular dish that is eaten in Chinese households is scrambled eggs and tomato.

*Note: another popular use for the word to scramble is to describe being in a hurry to leave or get ready. For example, this morning I woke up thirty minutes late and had to scramble to get ready for work.

Meander – verb, to walk without a destination

Ex. After eating lunch today, I had a spare half hour so I meandered around the park.

Ex. From the plane, I could see the river meandering through the mountains.

Figurative – imagined, artistic

Ex. The word meander can be used figuratively to talk about roads or rivers.

Literal – actual, unchangeable

Ex. When used literally, the word meander needs a person or an animal as the subject.

Personify – verb, to speak about an object as if it is alive

Ex. Many authors use the word meander to personify rivers.

Ex. Another example of personification: “As soon as the clouds ate the sun, I felt much colder.”

Dissect – verb, to separate into parts, to take apart, usually used in science to describe taking apart animals for study, 解剖

Ex. Some people don’t like talking to psychologists because they feel like their thoughts are being dissected.

Pronunciation 发音

Wings (weengz)

Meander (me-AN-dur)

Dissect (die-SECT)

Grammar 语法

Unsure numbering:

_00 = hundreds

_000 = thousands

_0,000 = tens of thousands

_00,000 = hundreds of thousands

_,000,000 = millions

_,000,000,000 = billions

Ex. Donald Trump often does not know the exact statistics for his information, so he usually uses unsure quantities, such as “hundreds” or “thousands.”

Expressions 成语

To “pass the time” means to do something that distracts you and makes time pass more quickly.

Ex. Doctor’s usually put magazines in their waiting rooms so that patients can pass the time as they wait.

To “pack a lunch” means to prepare a lunch at home and take it to work or school.

Ex. My mother packed my lunches until I got to high school, then I had to do it myself.