Online Class Notes (Tibo)

My Covid results just became negative.

If I keep staying at home everything is good but if I go out the temperature is low so I feel a bit uncomfortable.
I feel I still need some time to recover.

I think she is more healthy than me.
she loves housework and always does some cleaning but I just stay at home and lay down so maybe that’s the reason why.
She is very active. / she is much more active than me. / she has more energy than me.

If I haven’t get covid maybe I think I will go out with my  friends to have the christmas party. -> (3rd conditional) If I hadn’t had covid / If I hadn’t caught covid, I would go out with my friends on Christmas

This weekend I need stay at home to recover and the week end after this week I already have a plan.
Maybe I will go out to the night club. / I plan to go to a night club
I have a high level of antibodies so it is hard for me to catch it again. / since I just had it I should be immune for now

I am in a wechat group for the night club, I think there are still some people who keep going out and drinking.
Even if they get covid, it is crazy.

Everybody is very happy. They have a reason not to focus on work/ they have a reason to slack They have a very official reason because I am sick and I get a fever, I cannot work hard as usual.
Everybody keeps discussing about the symptoms.

Yesterday night I went out with my roommate to have dinner. The restaurant is very popular and there are normally a lot of people lined up but yesterday it was empty.

And for home delivery we don’t have staff for us to pick up the deliveries -> food delivery services are understaffed

right now we need to wait 1h but before it only took 30m.

and the express services, those people their working environment is under a lot of risk / they have a high risk of catching covid at work
they cannot work normally if they get sick.
Like us we stay at home and work from home, we just deal some stuff on the internet but for them they cannot working like this  / For us it is much easier , we can do our job remotely on the internet but they cannot work like this 
In Shanghai you have to stay at home.

also for our clients they are on holiday. They won’t be back until the end of December, until the western new year.

I haven’t thought too much about it. Maybe because I just got used to the lifestyle and the lock down policies. I keep staying in one city. Maybe I want to go abroad in 2023. Europe or America. I need to find a friend or a bf to have a trip with me.

I think for the year before last year I normally have the new year resolutions but I don’t think it is necessary. -> In the past few years I made new year resolutions but now I don’t think it is necessary

If you have a plan but you never achieve it it is meaningless.
Maybe I have an overall direction like having more savings or some improvements on my salary and finding a boyfriend and getting married.

Those were my resolutions for 2022 but I achieved none of them.
My friends are all getting married, I think 30 in Chinese people’s mind it is an important year to change your life / 30 is an important milestone. you should have your own family after 30. / People feel they move to a different stage when they reach 30

It is hard to avoid, you will make comparisons with your friends / you will compare with your friends.
Especially during the period of the end of the year, you consider your situation / you reflect on your situation and compare with your friends.

I am not stable with my past working experience, only 1 year and 1 company. -> I moved too frequently / I changed job too often in the last few years so I need to stay longer in my current position.
Sometimes if I feel unhappy with my current job I think about just quitting the job and just staying at home to take a rest.

maybe you perform your work very hard but you just do the minimum thing but you have a good relationship with your boss. -> maybe you just pretend to work hard and do the bare minimum but you have a good relationship with your boss

Tech people in my company are like this. If there are some issues they always say we cannot solve this or no one can solve this. / when we encounter a problem they tell us there is no way to fix it.
But / However if you just ask their boss or talk with their boss they will change their attitude.

Vocabulary

bare minimum : absolute minimum / the least amount acceptable
I hated school so i just did the bare minimum to go on to the next year

quiet quitting (n) giving up on trying to work and just doing the minimum not to get fired
Quiet quitting is very popular this year.

to reflect (v) 认真思考
I reflected on my what I did during my time in jail

milestone (n) 里程碑/ 转折点
Getting my driving license was an important milestone for me

(new year) resolutions : things you want to improve next year
one of my new year resolution is to go to the gym more often

understaffed (adj) not having enough people / working with less people than necessary
We are understaffed right now because many people are on holiday

overstaffed (adj) having too many people / working with more people than necessary
Elon Musk probably felt that twitter was overstaffed and he laid off 50% of the employees

to slack (v) 工作懈怠  / 懒散 (informal)
It is easier to slack when you are working remotely

immunity (n) 免疫力
Since Covid is a new disease very few people have an immunity

immune (adj)
I should be immune to Covid for a few months

antibody (n) 抗体
I have antibodies now

Grammar

can + base form V
I can swim
Tom cannot drink milk

Pronunciation

symptoms

signal