VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

orthodontic: zheng ji ke

getting braces: get ya tao

defeats the purpose of sth: de bu chang shi

1. Working with people you don’t like defeats its purpose.

come in handy: come in use

handyman: who does the DIY around your house

prepare for a rainy day: wei yu chou mou

voices: kind of voices = opinions

make do: compromise, tuo xie

1. We will have to make do with what we have here.

present a united front: yi zhi dui wai

at each other’s throats: fighting really hard 2 ppl

go viral: spread quickly on internet

file a complaint: tou su

commit a crime

quirk: special habits

When I was a student, it was very good.

… I was very good.

Q: Do you follow the news? What’s one piece of news that caught your attention recently?

Yesterday I followed the news about Alibaba’s management team for sexual assault. The case happened maybe one month ago. There was a female staff in Alibaba post on Weibo that one of his boss sexually assault her when they had the business trip with their customers. She was forced to have the business trip, and at the dinner she was forced to drink a lot of alcohol. And then she has no clear thoughts. The next day, she found she was naked on the bed, after she checked out, she called the policeman. When she returned the company, she also complained about this thing to the management, and no one replied her. So she did something in public, for example, she wrote the ban in the canteen to tell everyone about this case.. then the news was spread very quickly. but after one month investigation, the police said the boss didn’t crime, he only had some ethical problem. So it seems that the female staff make some stories about this case.

Yesterday I read the news that I’ve been following for some time/I’ve been following the news about Alibaba’s management team’s sexual assault (of xxx) case. The incident occurred/happened maybe one month ago. A female staff in Alibaba posted on Weibo that one of her bosses sexually assaulted her when they were on the business trip with their clients. She was forced to go on the business trip, and at the dinner she was forced to drink a lot of alcohol. And then she has no clear thoughts/lost her consciousness. The next day, she found she was naked on the bed, after she checked out, she called the police. When she returned to the company, she also filed a complaint to the management, but received no reply. So she went public and made a/put up a banner in the canteen to tell everyone about this case.. then the news spread very quickly. but after one month of investigation, the police said the boss didn’t commit the crime,the case was only an ethical problem/he was only unethical/unfaithful to his wife. So it seems that the female staff made up some stories about this case.

The husband react to the female’s action.

The husband responded to her actions.

(You) Imagine if we all stopped working.

Before I got married, I could not imagine if the husband cheated on the wife… I can kindly understand.

Before I got married, I could not imagine husbands cheating on their wives… I can kind of understand.

Men are more successful than women.

Men are more easy to succeed than women are.

If you finish your work, you can be free./you are off the hook.

It depends on if/whether I understand the work.

If you can know her preferences. If you can get her preferences.

If you can get to know her preferences.

If I want to have further developments…

If I want to make further development…

Pronunciation

feel: feel “eel”

fuel: “fiu” +”ol”

naked – nay+kid

advance – “an”

still – use phonics, not (bad) habits

owe: old without the “d”