Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Today is the last day of March and they need to use their annual leaves because it will be expired -> because they will expire tomorrow 

The salary is too low so you need to find work life balance by yourself.
In the company I bring a book about Xinjiang, it is like a documentary.-> I brought a book about Xinjiang to the office
The book contains a lot of small stories about people who have lived in Xinjiang./ It is like 100 short biographies

It is more like a propaganda book but I think stories are true.
I want to go to XJ when I was young. -> I wanted to go to XJ when I was young

The places that can make you feel relaxing / help you relax.

It is like you build houses and .. to product some food / it is a city management simulation  / you have to control buildings and manage resources 

there are small games to make you accomplish some tasks and you can get rewards and you can also lead a club/guild. It is like a small community.

It is like a city management simulation game. It is really time consuming.
This one is the best one I ever played. For a while I didn’t have time to play it and I hadn’t played it for 3 years and I returned and people still remembered me.

Several years ago I thought it was stupid to fasten the pace of building a city but recently I think it is ok. But I still disagree with those that spend a lot.
I think it is ok to spend 100/200 but if you spend more I think it is too much.

Before I had my son I never spent money and when I started to play it again I started to spend CNY30 to buy some equipments. I think the purpose of working is making life better and being happy. If I use/spend CNY100 and I can feel happy it is fine, but you should control yourself.

If you do not have good self control you will spend unconsciously.
I found my husband spent thousands on a game but I found he spent too frequently.
I think he couldn’t control himself well.

You should find some other things to distract your attention from the game.
I stopped this game for 2 months and I found I always played it until midnight.  It is hard to control yourself.
I forced myself to read books and then I felt attracted by books and stopped playing.

I just see a lot of people fighting with each other

At that time my son was 2, I hoped when he returned home he could play with his son.

I said “you can play after your son goes to sleep” / I told him he could play after his son went to bed

He told me they have races and they begin at that time so he had to play at that time.
He sold his account and earned 2k. / he sold his account for 2k
One of my friends played game for others and earned a lot but it was very tiring, he needed to play day and night.

I disagree with kids to play the game but it is hard for you to control him.
Sometimes he needs to have common topic with his friends.
During the lockdown it was really boring to stay at home so my husband let him play board games.

It contains a lot of games but the basics is to make you move.
It can help practice their reflexes

I can not forbidden him when is a grown up -> I can not forbid him
We think when we are old and he cares we will leave some money for him but else we will spend all of our money.

we bought a life insurance and chose him as the beneficiary

He thinks everything comes easily / he takes things for granted.

When we go to see new houses we had to bring him so I told to the agency not to tell him we would buy the house in front of him.

Vocabulary

beneficiary (n) person receiving money when X happens
We chose him as the life insurance beneficiary

will (n) document stating what you want to happen after your passing
He wrote in his will he wanted his house to be given to his son

inheritance (n) what you give to your kids when you pass away
We will not leave any inheritance if he doesn’t treat us well

to inherit (v)
If he is a good boy he will inherit the house from us

reflex (n) 反射动作
You need good reflexes in this game

coordination skills (n) 协调能力
it makes you practice your coordination skills

guild (n) 同业公会 an association of people with a similar goal
I joined the wizard guild in the game

WOW (World of Warcraft) (n) 魔兽
WOW was very popular 10 years ago.

frequency (n)
He increased the frequency of his spendings

frequently (adv)
He spent too frequently

propaganda (n) 宣传鼓动
There are many old propaganda posters