Online Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

arhythmia: 心律不齐

charismatic: charming, people like/follow him

mortgage: 抵押贷款; 按揭贷款; 按揭(由银行等提供房产抵押借款)

burnt: （adj）
ie. The meat was burnt

confront: 直面; 面对; 对抗; 使…无法回避; 降临于; 处理，解决(问题或困境); 与(某人)对峙

wuss: coward

denote: 标志; 预示; 象征; 表示; 意指

subpar: below standard

surplus: 盈余; 剩余; 过剩; 顺差; 过剩量; 剩余额

rehearsed： prepared
ie. Your apology sounds really over-rehearsed and not sincere.

obnoxious: 讨厌的; 可憎的; 令人作呕的
ie. obnoxious man

I can choose 3 days go to the office.

I’m difficult to directly confront to the waiters.

I learn from teaching (concept)/the classes (specific)

but this kind of restaurant I don’t want to ..
this restaurant is not worth going again.
I don’t want to visit/go to this restaurant again.

1. Immaculate [a.]
– extremely clean and tidy / If you say that something is immaculate, you are emphasizing that it is perfect, without any mistakes or bad parts

– I’d like to keep my tabletop immaculate/spotless.

2. illustrious [a.]3
– very famous and much admired, especially because of what you have achieved

– McLuhan’s most illustrious slogan is that the medium is the message.

3. subsist [v.]
– to exist; to be valid / to manage to stay alive, especially with limited food or money

– Stray cats often subsist/survive on handouts.

4. Smarmy [a.]
– too polite in a way that is not sincere
– Zero tried to make a “friendly and passionate” impression on the interviewer, however this made her smarmy.

5. unlikely [ad.]
– If you say that something is unlikely to happen or unlikely to be true, you believe that it will not happen or that it is not true, although you are not completely sure.
– Internet just like air. It is necessary but you are unlikely to be aware of it.

6. Linger [v.]
– When something such as an idea, feeling, or illness lingers, it continues to exist for a long time, often much longer than expected.
– This scented candle could linger an Osmanthus flavor for 1 hour after it went out.
– The Osmanthus smell lingered for 1 hour after the candle went out.
– the lingering smell in the air

7. superstructure [n.]
– the systems and beliefs in a society that have developed from more simple ones
– the economic base determines the/its superstructure.

8. noxious [a.]
– poisonous or harmful
– My Ikea products give off noxious fumes.