F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)(R)

Vocabulary

eye sight / vision

e.g. My daughter may need to stop watching the iPad or it will hurt her eyesight/vision.

prostitution / 卖淫 / prostitute (person-woman)

e.g. Prostitutes are usually in dangerous situations.

Grammar

to watch some cartoonists / cartoons

I think it’s OK – to use the iPad to watch something

seems not / it doesn’t seem like it

I don’t like to use social media to talk with others

compare with that I like face-to-face talk more / compared with face-to-face communication – I prefer face-to-face

if you realize it’s not true real (VR)

I don’t think it’s a good things thing

everything has two side / there are two sides to everything / every argument has two sides / there are two sides to every coin

release their body needs / their bodily needs

if changed it to be legal / if it was changed so that it was legal

the economy of American America is has been decreasing in recent years

it’s depend it depends on the political guidance /

Xi don’t doesn’t want to cooperate with some development developed/developing country

only one part in china / only one party in China

I don’t think it’s a health healthy things thing for a country /

Pronunciation

isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose mastery of social media has helped drive the national conversation and shed light on the inner workings of congressional power, has given up on the most popular social network in the world.

In an interview Sunday with the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery,” the New York Democrat said she stopped using her Facebook account and was scaling back on all social media, which she described as a “public health risk” because it can lead to “increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.”

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who burst onto the national stage after defeating a high-ranking incumbent, said her departure from Facebook was a “big deal” because the platform had been crucial to her campaign. She still has accounts on the site, she said, and according to the company’s ad library, her official Facebook account has dozens of active advertisements sponsored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress. Among the ads are calls to support her signature Green New Deal, and fundraising pleas to support progressive legislation and to counteract a super PAC aligned against her.

“The congresswoman’s words speak for themselves,” said Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez.

BEIJING —  Before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the Chinese capital unveiled a new airport terminal that covered about 200 football fields in floor space, boasted a capacity of 50 million passengers a year, and cost $4 billion.

That’s modest compared with what is opening next.

Crews are putting the final touches on what will be one of the world’s largest and busiest airports. Designed by the late British architect Zaha Hadid, the phoenix-shaped Beijing Daxing International Airport is set to open in September as the latest major Chinese project, even as the country’s economy cools.

Officials say the $12 billion Daxing airport could one day serve more than 100 million passengers per year, approaching the traffic volumes of the busiest airport in the world, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Rising out of farmland about 30 miles south of central Beijing, the new transport hub is a testament to the growth in civil aviation in China — which is expected to overtake the United States as the largest market in the coming years — and the government’s vision to develop its industrial north through infrastructure investment.

Construction started in 2014, before China’s economy began to slow. But the project fits the priorities of President Xi Jinping, whose government continues to spend heavily on infrastructure and transportation as key drivers of development.

The country invested $120 billion and $12 billion in railways and civil aviation, respectively, in 2018, according to transportation authorities.

The capital’s main airport now, Beijing Capital International Airport northeast of the city, has been straining at maximum capacity for years and is plagued by delays, said Yi Wei, deputy manager of the Daxing airport’s planning department.

“It’s heavily overloaded,” Yi said. “We estimate, basically, that about 400 flights every day are held up because of air traffic control approval.”