Online Class Notes (Tibo)

My colleague from New Zealand had a Christmas party tonight
In China we will have an annual dinner before CNY and the boss should fly to all the cities to have dinner with the colleagues so maybe some cities may do it one month before the actual date. / some cities may host the annual party before CNY based on the availability of the boss.

Maybe we should do something by many countries not just with one countries -> Globalizations is when countries all work together / globalization is when countries are more and more connected.

in the second part / in the second paragraph he said, currently the trend are between countries within one region./ the trend is countries getting closer with their neighbor countries / the trend is for regions to create stronger links than with other regional blocks.

It is not good for globalization. / It is different from the traditional globalization / it is a more regional globalization.
I think maybe regionalization is a part of globalization. Different regions have different advantages. Maybe in Asia Pacific the labor cost is lower so the factories may manufacture there.

I think for the whole company the business will become larger/will increase/will grow but in China maybe it will decrease.
Currently some factories are moving to South East Asia but for the whole company I think the business will become larger. / grow

sometimes on TV they show a preview of the movie.

I think it is quite convenient because one road one belt. ->  I think the Belt and road initiative (BRI) was a good project.
There are many cooperations together. -> there are many cooperations. / many countries are working together

For example the train in Indonesia -> A new train line was built by China in Indonesia, it is quite fast. / it is a high speed train line.
If we can connect by the train different countries in Asia pacific that will be really good for cooperation / having better train lines in Asia pacific will help further cooperation between countries.

I prefer taking the train than taking the plane.
I can control the schedule better, for the airplane maybe they will postpone by the weather  -> the plane might be delayed due to the weather  / when there is bad weather you may need to postpone your trip if you travel by plane.

Vocabulary

to dispose of (v) to get rid of  / make disappear
We cannot dispose of trash on the street we need to recycle.

to postpone (v) push to a later time /date
We had to postpone the meeting

delay (n/v) being late  / push to a later time
The plane was delayed by 2h because of the rain

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
China helped many countries with BRI

Initiative (n) something you do to improve a situation
They decided to launch an initiative to support people affected by the earthquake 

South East Asia (n) 东南亚
many factories moved to south east asia

paragraph (n) block of text
The article had 5 paragraphs

availability (n) when someone is available
I asked Tom to tell me his availabilities to plan a meeting with him

available (adj) free
Tom is available at 2pm

manufacture (v) make/produce
We manufacture our chairs in ietna,

bilateral (adj) between 2 parties /2 sides
Biden is meeting Xi this week they may have bilateral agreeements

logical (n) making sense in cause / effect 逻辑的
Tom lost his job and he had no money and he started spending even more than before. it is not logical

illogical (adj) not logical
Some things are sometime illogical

logistic (n) the movement of goods / supply chain
I work in a logistic company