Online Class Notes (Tibo)

I have finished my classes before Covid and my wife finally gave up and she sold/gave/transferred  the class to me.

we manage our money by ourselves / separately.

She don’t want to share her money with me, it is the key reason.-> she doesn’t
She doesn’t need to use English.

It is a permanent policy.

Our manager thinks it is better for us to work from home and we can save a lot of money for the office renting. They think it is a good solution for us to save cost.

I think it is better to meet my colleagues maybe twice a week. We can have face to face talks. I think it is better for us to communicate with each other. It is easy for us to change our mind face to face.

When you work from home you only talk with team calls or wechat calls. We can only hear the voice from others, maybe sometimes we need to guess their actual purpose.
It makes it harder to understand their intention

The purpose she learns English is to find a good job.

We are a B2B business. for express it is a good news. but our business is for some big corporations. It always depends by the global economic situation and sometimes it depends by the relationship between China and America.

I think it will take more times maybe 2 years.
Recently I find a lot of big companies have redundancy plans to reduce their costs.

Their management team thinks the trend of the economy is not good in the following 2 years.

I have finished my classes before Covid and my wife finally gave up and she sold/gave/transferred  the class to me.

we manage our money by ourselves / separately.

She don’t want to share her money with me, it is the key reason.-> she doesn’t
She doesn’t need to use English.

It is a permanent policy.

Our manager thinks it is better for us to work from home and we can save a lot of money for the office rent. They think it is a good solution for us to save/cut/limit cost.

I think it is better to meet my colleagues maybe twice a week. We can have face to face talks/we can discuss face to face. I think it is better for us to communicate with each other.

It is easy for us to change our mind face to face. -> it is easier to express our opinion face to face. It is easier to convince people face to face

When you work from home you only talk with team calls or wechat calls. We can only hear the voice from others, maybe sometimes we need to guess their actual purpose.
It makes it harder to understand their intention / we cannot see their body language

The purpose she learns English is to find a good job. -> She wanted to learn English to find a good job

We are a B2B business. for express (services/companies) it is a good news. but our business is for some big corporations. It always depends on the global economic situation / the global economy and sometimes it depends on the relationship between China and America. / it is affected by the relationship between China and the US

I think it will take a lot of time / longer maybe 2 years.
Recently I found/saw a lot of big companies have redundancy plans to reduce their costs.

Their management team thinks the trend of the economy is not good in the following 2 years. -> their top management is bearish on the economy / Top management predicts the economy will go down in the coming 2 years.

have you been in China for the last 3 years  / were you in China for the last 3 years.

I have to stay at home everyday -> I had to stay at home everyday.

We were locked down one extra month compared with people in Puxi.

During that period I had to cook by myself / we had to cook by ourselves and we tried a lot of ways to cook the same food / the same ingredients.
We just wanted to have some spicy food.
If we go to Europe for 2 weeks our first meal when we come back is hotpot.

the flavor is too mild

If you can only have mild food you will miss spicy food.

I plan to travel to Thailand

have you been to Thailand before.
I went to Thailand 3 times.

I just want to stay at the hotel. I can lay down on the bed to relax for the whole day.

In Shanghai the speed is very fast / Shanghai is a fast paced city.
Shenzhen is faster than SH. The main reason is the average age of citizens is younger than SH.
They have to work hard and gain enough money to buy an apartment.

they go out of HK now to find a good job. -> they leave HK to find a good job.

Vocabulary

ingredients (n) components/food used when cooking
The secret to a good meal is to use fresh ingredients

mild (adj) not strong (taste)
Western food is quite mild

bearish (adj)
Top management is bearish on physical stores, they believe they will be replaced by online marketplaces

bullish (adj)
I am very bullish on AI

bear market (n) market when price usually goes down
We are currently in a bear market

time: how long
I spent a lot of time studying in university

time(s): frequency
I go to the gym 3 times a week

to depend on x
Our business depends on the overall economic situation

to convince (v) make someone realize something is correct/right
I convinced Tom to use DHL instead of EMS

intention (n) what someone wants to do
His intention was to find a way to get a cheaper deal