Open F2F Class Notes November 18th (Ben)

Vocabulary

give Caesar his due = 饮水思源

set up an activity

abstract 抽象

literature and art 文艺

They drop off books in public transportation.

trash can 垃圾箱

an initiative 倡议 = a new project

I support this initiative

pro bono = 公益的 for free

It’s a nice initiative but they don’t do it pro bono.

contradict 反驳

Stop contradicting me !

Original version

Dropping off books

A Wechat official account set up an activity to encourage people to read books. They dropped 10 thousands books on the public transportation, including Didi taxi, ships and mainly, metro, to appeal people find and read them. They also invited some celebrities to spread this initiative out through Weibo.

Unfortunately, to certain extent, it was not a successful activity. Although it has attracted enough attention and gone viral on social media, a big part of people doubted this so-called “pro bono”. They think it is a commercial activity. The real objective is to acquire more fans for the Wechat account. In addition, it is blamed to steal a similar idea from outboard.

Actually, I think it is a good imitative. It is ok, even if its real goal is to make money. People get continuous good content from this Wechat account for free. Why they don’t allow it to be commercial? Also, what they did is for encouraging people to be better. I totally support this initiative.

Edited version

Dropping off Books

A Wechat official account set up an activity to encourage people to read books. They scattered 10 thousand books on the public transportation, including Didi taxis, ships and mainly the metro, to appeal people to find and read them. They also invited some celebrities to spread this initiative out through Weibo.

Unfortunately, to a certain extent, it was not a successful activity. Although it has attracted enough attention and gone viral on social media, a big part of people doubted this so-called “pro bono” facade. They think it is a commercial activity. The real objective is to acquire more fans for the Wechat account of the company. In addition, it has been blamed to have stolen the idea from abroad.

Actually, I think it is a good initiative. It is ok, even if its real goal is to make money. People get continuous good content from this Wechat account for free. Why don’t they allow it to be commercial? Also, what they did is for encourage people to be better. I totally support this initiative.

scatter 分散

a facade 外表，建筑的正面

All he does is complain. (2 verbs is ok in this situation ONLY – because you used DO)

I do love you. (2 verbs OK)

I love [all he does]