Online Class Notes (Li)

Vocabulary

cereal – mai pian

kilograms/kg – weight

kilometres/km– length

fully booked – 100% booked

ex. Unfortunately, all delivery slots are fully booked.

walk away immediately – to quit/leave quickly

ex. If they let me go, I’d walk away immediately.

2001-2009 – two thousand and one/tw0/nine

2010 – two thousand and ten/twenty ten

once every other day – once every 2 days

well reputation company

Reputable company

They may just use the bag of this company and pour in company.

They may just use the packaging of this company but the rice is from another company.

I suspect that they poured rice from another brand into this packaging. 

Started from Apr 1st the warehouse may reopen 3 days later, the date reopen again.

Starting from 1st Apr, they told us that the warehouse may reopen 3 days later, but it still remains shut.

In normal times

Usually/Normally

The pricing started to increase 3 years ago, since the pandemic.

The prices went up 3 years ago due to the pandemic.