Online Class Notes (Tibo)

the colleagues are not very cooperative and always challenge everything

I asked our vendors to guide them.
This is a way to escape from those arguments / to avoid those arguments.

another project goes very smoothly / is running smoothly.
We will make it go live next week / it will launch next week / it will go live next week.

I put / pour almost all of my energy into that project / I’m fully focused on that project.

I saw a lot of my friends post about the vision pro. They are excited about it. I told my husband that I didn’t like it.
My first reaction was I never need to go for traveling / I never need to travel again.

In the movie the wandering earth he lost his daughter and tried everything to make his daughter alive digitally  -> to resurrect his daughter / he tried to recreate his daughter digitally.

I think it will make us have less communication with others and make young people unwilling to go outside because they can realize almost everything at home.

Maybe in the future it will be a cheap product like now everyone can use cellphones / can afford cellphones.

I don’t hope that the vision pro will replace must have experiences -> I hope it won’t replace real experiences

It will make you less ambitious and you will become very lazy.
If I am not satisfied with my home I can pretend that I live in a luxury house and I don’t think working hard it a must ->I won’t work hard to improve my real life.
/ It will distract me from improving my actual life.

we should have a limitation to use those things / we should set limits / impose limitations on ourselves I still ask my son not to play games too frequently, I hope he can have a real life experience.
In the dragon boat festival there will be many activities in Wuzhen we can learn Chinese traditional cultures.

You can feel you are just in a real virtual world -> you will be fully immersed / you will have an immersive experience

you should not fully rely on it

especially for those working in a technology company and the stock market staff.
Those companies who help others to do videos or the photo industry / people in the communication industry / creative industry.

it is better than the way of working nowadays -> the current way or working

We have much more advanced tech and your boss can contact you on wechat / reach you on wechat

you are 3 or 4 times more productive

you work more efficient -> we work more efficiently 

you are unpatient about a lot of things -> impatient
I will be angry about those who walk slowly and watch their cellphones.
I feel surprised about myself I feel they slow down my walking speed / they slow me down when I walk

if we are not working so hard and so tired I will have more patience -> if we were not working so hard we would have more patience

Even at week ends I will think about work unconsciously.  / work remains on my mind.

In the subway car you can see codes.
If the code is similar I will think about our SAP system immediately.

I am creative and full of imagination so it will be easy for me to link things together / to relate things.

If I don’t have a son maybe I will not go to work anymore -> If I didn’t have a son I wouldn’t go to work.

At that time I liked tennis and sometimes I can got paid for these articles -> I could get paid

at that time I am very creative -> I was very creative.

I thought about if I should make it as my work / thought about turning it into a career 

If you don’t care about the money you make from it it will be a cherished experience in your life. / It is better not to monetize your hobbies so remain a nice experience.

At first you will feel very happy, when their second income becomes stable they will give up their main job and this side project will become a major source of income.
Maybe one day you will still get bored.

If you work for others and just get a fixed package you won’t treat those tasks as your own.

For my generation the society will keep what it is -> will remain the same   

One day when I become an old lady I won’t be able to understand what my son is doing.

They are very wondering where to get medicine / they are totally lost because they can’t use the tech.

I am worried about that because the society develops so fast and it will be a normal thing that old people don’t know how to use.

His Xiaomi app controls many smart home devices.
If AI is smart enough I will be very afraid of it. For example it has a lot of languages but sometimes we talk in both Chinese and Shanghainese and I don’t think it will understand it.  / sometimes we combine Chinese and Shanghainese / we mix Chinese and Shanghainese

We still need to adapt the message for the AI to understand / it is not natural enough 

Vocabulary

side project / side hustle (n) activity different from your main job
He has a side project as a app developer

efficient (adj)
I am efficient at work

efficiently (adv)
I work very efficiently

resurrect (v) make come back to life
I resurrected my teammates in the game

resurrection (n)
The book talks about the resurrection of this old project

hair (n) on your head
I combed my hair last night

hairs (n) all over your body / or for animals
My cat leaves hairs all over my clothes

humorous (adj) funny
I wrote in a humorous way

subway car / compartment (n)
I decided to go to another subway car because this one was full of people

immersive (adj) giving the feeling of being there
3D movies are more immersive than 2D movies

immersion (n)
VR will increase our immersion when watching movies

cooperative (adj) willing to work together with someone
Tom was not very cooperative when I joined the company

cooperation (n)
we need to increase cooperation with other people

Pronunciation

technology 

Grammar

when you talk about a situation that is not real you have to use the second conditional

If I didn’t have a son I would travel the world