Online Class Notes (Tibo)

it was packaged with people  -> packed

they push you to make way for themselves  / clear the way

I never walk in that store on the 20th because there are too many people and you couldn’t -> can’t 

there is an old lady living downstairs me -> I have a downstairs neighbor 
she also doubles as the community manager.

I gave money to old soldiers that contributed to WW2. -> WWII veterans
They don’t have their way to earn any money, they live in a very bad situation. -> a lot of them don’t have a stable job / can’t earn a good living 

the baddest thing -> the worst thing

He had a job after the war so he has a pension but for the others they don’t know how to make lives after the war. -> how to make a living

I was searching my phone -> browsing Weibo

it was the start of the whole bad period -> pandemic

We have a tough 10 years from 1966 -> we had

after I chose a professor

the two collapsed -> overlapped

I don’t have that time back then -> I didn’t

the pandemic even makes my transfer difficult -> -> more difficult

they didn’t came back to me -> they didn’t get back to me

they ask questions that they don’t even know the answer -> know the answer to

they are testing my thinking -> they were testing my thinking / my logic / the way I would approach the issue

“I‘m glad that you are the one that I could be open with” -> I am glad we are able to talk so openly / I am glad we are able to talk very freely

Vocabulary

pension (n) money you get after you retired
She lives on her pension

grow a thick skin -> become stronger after being hurt
I grew a thick skin after being rejected several times

donation scam (n) when people ask you to make a donation but keep the money for themselves…
I fell for a donation scam

to have a short fuse (n) : easily get angry
he has a short fuse

to overlap (v) happen at the same time
The two meetings overlapped so I had to leave a bit early

Grammar

on xmas day