VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

chopsticks: chinese utensils

“out and about”: seen the outside world

belly: stomach
ie. Fat belly

Appetite:
ie. How’s your appetite?

Polar opposites: extremely two ends

high-maintenance (adj): high demand, with lots of needs like a baby
ie. Pretty women are usually high-maintenance.

Abiguous: vague

bots: internet “robot”

notification: notice push

poach: wa

Grammar

hardly:

Ally hardly ever sees her family.
Ally has had hardly anything today.
I hardly see my boss eating.

Thought of:
I think about making money every day.
When I saw this chanel, I immediately thought of you. It has your name on it. (associate, reminds me of you, at the one moment)

We’re thinking that they probably won’t make it to the finals.

At that time, I never thought of it could resell at such a high price.
At that time, I never thought that it could resell at such a high price/at a price that high.

“If they were VVVIP, they would get the shoes?”We didn’t calculate the customer’s spend, we select the customers depends on how many time they spend on the app, especially after the negative use coming out.
It’s not based on he customer’s spending, customers are selected depending on how much time they spend on the app/browsing time on the app, especially after the negative news came out.

They did a market research but not all of us buy it.
They did a market research but not all of us buy the results.
They did some market research that got promising results but not all of us buy it.
They did some market research but some of us don’t buy the results.

They made a huge restock so a lot of people got them.

He didn’t bring any chinese currency with him.

He hasn’t gotten his bank account yet.

Otherwise he will be hardly to re-enter.
Otherwise it will be nearly impossible for him to re-enter China.

He has a lot of food requests.
He has a lot of food-related requests.

The hotel accepts food delivery, but need to follow up their timeline. We only can deliver to this window.
The hotel accepts food delivery, but we need to follow a strict schedule/but according to/on a strict schedule. We only can deliver food during one of the three windows.

Around his hotel, there’s little restaurants offer food delivery.
Around his hotel, there are few restaurants that offer food delivery.

Pronunciation

high-maintenance: swallow the “te”

permit: (v) stress on “mit” (n) stress on “per”

Vietnam: not “nam” , more like “nonm”