VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

uneventful: nothing happened

quick study: person who learns very quickly

accommodations: 住处; 办公处; 停留处; 住宿; 膳宿; 和解; 调解; 调和;
ie. I need to prepare/arrange the accommodations for my guest clients.

airport pickup: Jie ji (noun)

buffet/all-you-can-eat: hotel buffet

a dining hall that holds/seats(v) 100 people

trendy: fashion

fly coach: economy class

jet lag: shi cha
ie. I have jet lag from my last business trip, even though I didn’t leave China.

kick the bucket: die

Grammar

super spicy
medium spicy
mild

SVO:

10 000 – ten thousand
100 000 – hundred thousand
1 000 000-million
1 000 000 000 – billion
trillion ..

2 174 346 902 – 2billion 1 hundred seventy four million three hundred forty six thousand nine hundred and two

of : de
– how many(choice, pick) of you (range) – in your company, how many people went to Dalian?
– girls of class (range)

I went to the hotel last week.
The hotel (that) I went to last week.

The girl who looks like a princess.

I have many work to do everyday.
I have a lot work to do everyday.
Work fills up/takes up all of my time everyday.
I am swamped(adj) with work.
I am drowning in work.

like this, we attend the meeting.
We need to prepare many things for the meeting.
We need to make lots of preparations before the meeting.

This hotel has opened more than 16 years.
Kapinsky is a hotel which has been opened for more than 16 years.
Kapinsky is a hotel which opened 16 years ago.
Kapinsky is a hotel which has been in business for more than 16 years.

Since in our company, we have a list to choose the hotel. Maybe my colleagues was responsible for this work. So I don’t know the details.
Since there’s a list of vendors in our company, we don’t have lots of choices. My colleague was probably responsible for this work, so I don’t …

excluding the flight tickets, all of the others we were in charge of.
We are responsible for/in charge of everything for this meeting except the flight tickets.

That movie will be in theaters next week.

Q: Your favorite vacation/a fun business trip
A: I went many places in the middle of this year. After I quit from the last job. Many places were in my list, which I want to go for a long time. Since this year, I quit my job so I have much time to travel, so I went to Chongqing. Since I like spicy food, so in CQ, I can eat the hotpot. CQ is a mountain city, you could find funny things in chongqing. In here, you get to fifth floor, but it’s just the ground in another road. so I like this. I went CQ with my boyfriend and we went to many places which I don’t remember the name. I just remember that there’s many trendy places/spots such as LZB railway station.

A: I went to many places in the middle of this year. After I quit from/left my last job. Many places were on my list, which I have been wanting to go for a long time./I have many places which I have been wanting to go for a long time./ I have a list of places that I want to/I have been dying to visit.

Edit:

Since this year, I quit my job so I have much time to travel, so I went to Chongqing. Since I like spicy food, so in CQ, I can eat the hotpot. CQ is a mountain city, you could find funny things in chongqing. In here, you get to fifth floor, but it’s just the ground in another road. so I like this. I went CQ with my boyfriend and we went to many places which I don’t remember the name. I just remember that there’s many trendy places/spots such as LZB railway station.

For these two cities, they are famous for hotpot.