Online Class Notes (Mike)

Vocabulary

evaluation

Covid

spread (v) 传播

repost (v/n) 转发

harsh (adj.) 严苛的，严谨的
cruel (adj.) 残忍的
ruthless (adj.) 无情的

abusive 

torture (v) 折磨

perceive (v) 感知 – perception

shaba inu 柴犬 

transcribe 转写

sub-type 亚类型

desex 去性化
sterilize (v) 绝育
This dog has been sterilized.

domestic violence 家暴
domestic – abroad

religion (n) 宗教 – religious 你有宗教信仰吗？
Do you have a religious belief?
Are you religious?
Do you practice any religion(s)?

Taoism (n) 道教
The Jade Emperor 玉皇大帝

西游记：Journey to the West

Hinduism (n) 印度教

Islam (n) 伊斯兰教 Middle East

Christianity (n) 基督教

Christ (n) 基督

Christmas 圣诞节

Christopher
Christina

Michael
Michalla

David – Davidson

invade (v) 侵犯，入侵 

Vikings (n) 维京人 = Northern Europeans = Scandinavians 斯堪的纳维亚人
Jack  – Jack Junior – Jack the third – Jack  杰克三世
Jack- Bob
Luis VIIII – 路易十四世

saint (n) 圣人

parrot 鹦鹉

hamstring 仓鼠

tweet /chirp (v) 鸟叫，吱吱喳喳，啁啾
twitter (n)

Pronunciation

donate – donation

Animal protection in China

I don’t have a lot of thinking on it.
I don’t have any opinions/thoughts on it.

the gov arranged some people to kill the dog.
the gov ordered some officials to kill the dog.

they don’t be kind towards animals.
they are cruel to animals.

at any time 随时

he has some psychology problems.
He has some psychological/mental issues/problems.

I don’t know he bought the dog or he picked it.
I don’t know whether he bought the dog or he picked it.

A quarantine staff in the eastern Jiangxi province brutally killing a pet dog owned by an individual undergoing coronavirus-related isolation at a separate facility has been condemned by both officials and the public.

Officials at a subdistrict in the city of Shangrao said the on-site staff conducted “non-hazardous treatment” on the corgi without “sufficient communication” with the pet owner, according to a statement Saturday. They said the staff in question had been removed from their post and the pet owner accepted an official apology.

On Friday, the staff member assigned with quarantine-related duties had reportedly entered an apartment and killed the corgi using an iron rod. In a now-deleted post that has since gone viral on microblogging site Weibo, the pet owner had confirmed with local epidemic prevention staff that the dog would be unharmed before she was moved to a quarantine hotel.

“As a pet owner, this has caused me extreme psychological and physical discomfort and a strong sense of insecurity and fear,” one user commented in a different post with screenshots of the government’s statement.

In September, local authorities in the northeastern city of Harbin were also criticized after they euthanized three cats owned by a COVID-19 patient after the pets also tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile, in Shangrao, the dog owner and her family had tested negative for COVID-19, and there was no evidence that the dog was infected, local media reported Saturday.

Li Hui, director of the animal protection organization in the city of Yichang, central Hubei province, told Sixth Tone that it is “unacceptable” to forcefully kill pets whose owners were in quarantine at a different location. She said such actions were “cruel and inhumane.”

“If pets can be killed simply under the suspicion of COVID-19 infection, should the suspicious human cases also be killed?” Li said, calling for a national policy addressing the quarantine of pets. “The epidemic prevention staff need to change the way they think about pets. The government can outsource the service of pets’ quarantine to qualified foster care and animal protection centers for appropriate treatment.”

While there is no national guideline on handling pets of people who test positive for COVID-19 or are suspected of possible infections, cities have introduced local measures. While Shanghai allows residents to take their pets to quarantine hotels, Beijing has set up special quarantine facilities for pets, and Guangzhou has deployed people to feed the left-behind animals at home.