VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Evercolor

4inlook – 14.5

Vocabulary

contacts/contact lenses:

oriental: 东方(尤指中国和日本)的; 东方人的

interfere: 干涉; 干预; 介入

hitting on: flirting
ie. I don’t like married men who hit on little girls.

turn off: xia tou
ie. His glasses are such a turn-off (n).

date: jiao wang
ie. I’m dating that man for money. We’re just dating (seeing each other).

self-sufficient: 足够的; 充足的 by yourself

down payment: 首付款; 定金; (分期付款的)首期付款; 预付金

Grammar

give him credit: admit that he’s doing something good
ie. You have to give him credit for trying./He still gets credit for trying.

how are things working out… -> recent updates?

Recently I’ve always been wearing like this.
Recently I’ve been wearing this/dressing like this.

Thanks to your suggestion.

I didn’t wear eye contacts this morning because something is wrong with my eyes. But in the past two weeks, I had been wearing eye contacts.

I didn’t put on eye contacts this morning/I’m not wearing eye contacts because this morning, I felt something wrong with my eyes. But in the past two weeks, I had been wearing eye contacts.

Before the meeting, I was sending messages/I had been sending messages to him frequently.

He didn’t know who am I
He didn’t know who I was.

I usually work on the thirtieth floor.

That’s better than what some of us can say.

There’s a movie coming soon.
There’s a movie that’s gonna be in theatres soon.

He had several movie works.
He had been in several movies.

We would never fight over men

I’m not brave enough.
I’m too afraid.
I’m too much of a coward.

This year, I haven’t been to bars a lot.

We exchange one or two sentences.

I have been looking forward to seeing this movie for more than 2 years.

Maybe 2 or 3 years ago, I would have said yes.

Pronunciation

20th – twentee- eth

Oct 21st/22nd/23rd