Online Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

That pictures does you justice.

demographic: group of people

circumvent: 设法回避; 规避; 绕过; 绕行; 绕道旅行;

incident: not-accident

beyond repair

recall: 唤起回忆回忆起; 召回; 记起;

Speaking exercise

I’m trying to remind myself of something special.
I’m trying to remember/recall something special.
I’m trying to remind myself (提醒自己 of something you need to do).

they’re not that proud of their identity than Shanghainese
they’re less proud of their identity than Shanghainese are
they’re not as proud of their identity as Shanghainese are
compared to SH people, they’re not as proud of their identity.

reached bottleneck/maximum potential

go to the direction they don’t want to go
go the direction they don’t want to go
take the wrong road

voice out about the …
speak out/voice(v) their opinions on this issue…

It’s simply downwards.
It’s only in a downward trend.

Writing exercise

You’re using just one room
You’re staying in just one room/You just need the one room.

That’s how my colleagues look at me./say about me.
That’s how my colleagues look at me./say about me/what they think of me (opinion of me)

Because of that thing happened
Because of that happening…/because of that, … /because that happened

It doesn’t have directly relationship with LJQ’s disappearance
It doesn’t have a direct relationship with LJQ’s disappearance
There’s no direct relationship with LJQ’s disappearance
It’s not directly related to LJQ’s disappearance

We did see something bad happened to our brand image
We did see something bad happen to our brand image
We’re seeing something bad happening to our brand image

We need the offline business to exist/the existence of offline business.
We do /still need the offline business
The offline business is still important to us