Online Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

“spare no expense” : 不惜。。。

phonics: 自然拼读

pact: deal

consistent: 一致的

tattle tale: balbablabala 喜欢告状的人

rat: 告密者

“on my mind”

we want to have a try
we want to try/try it out

at working day
on working days/on weekdays/during weekdays

they’re very amazing about my ability to remember so many things when I was a kid
they’re always very amazed at my ability to remember so many things when I was a kid

consist in doing that
keep on doing that/insist on doing that

when he was even very small
even when he was very small

he’s focused on chinese character learning and swimming
he’s preoccupied with chinese character learning and swimming (no time for other things)
chinese learning and swimming occupies all of his time.

5 times compared with …
compared with my usual salary, I earn 5 times as much./4 times more than.

I just kidding him
I was just kidding/joking around with him

he knows you want to listen to that
he knows that’s what you want to hear.

mommy is talking something bad to daddy
mommy is telling on him to daddy.

wait me a moment
wait a moment for me

EDIT FOR NEXT CLASS:

it has been said for 10 years

I will have no quality to buy the new house

his house sold at almost 10 mil

the home I want to buy

move there and move here
move around

the price of house may be falling down dramatically

in the future, edu is not as important as nowadays
in the future, edu will not be as important as it is nowadays

it is workable
it works