Online Class Notes (Jesse)

this tokyo olympics is not about olympic spirit… it’s about fighting japanese spirit. it’s so obvious that japan is totally against chinese. This is the player from Japan and he just got the gold medal. He has been arguing with all the german and japanese when he is in german. One of his german colleague told him omg you guys are spy by wechat and the government can see whatever you talks about. im not sure if this only benefits the government because from the bottom of our hearts we really want to become really strong in front of the whole group… it’s not about…. I think many people who didn’t come to china they still think china is still suffering from poverty, hungry.

This tokyo olympics is not about olympic spirit… it’s about fighting japanese spirit / the spirit of fighting japan. It’s so obvious that japanese people are totally against chinese people. This is an athlete from Japan and he just got / won the gold medal. He has been arguing with all his german and japanese colleagues when he is in germany. One of his german colleagues told him omg you guys are spied on by the government through wechat so they can see whatever you talk about / you say. I’m not sure if this only benefits the government because from the bottom of our hearts we really want to become really strong in front of the whole international community… it’s not about…. I think many people who have never come / been to china they still think china is still suffering from poverty, and hunger.

Vocabulary

doctored image – to change an image
eg. someone doctored the image

host nation – the country that hosts the olympics

off the edge of the mat 

vaulting horse 

decimate – to completely destroy / wipe out sth
eg. Germany decimated Austria in WW2

up the river without a paddle / up the creek without a paddle

conundrum – sth that is really difficult to solve

pretentious – sb who acts like they’re amazing because they have something you don’t have

spiked – to go up very quickly

adversary / adverse (negative)
eg. there are many adverse reactions to the vaccine – side effects
eg2. they are our adversary / we have an adversarial relationship with Japan

formidable – really challenging
eg. he was a formidable opponent

this is where Jesse should write a sentence in Yancy’s notes = in this situation, Jesse should do it

This situation is where my lack of knowledge / my ignorance of sth is causing a problem

sth works against you / sth is a disadvantage for you

to bitch about sb / disparage them- to say bad things about someone

to do sth on a whim – impulsively / in an improvised way