VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

close: near / can be used to describe frds/family

ill: sick

blood pressure: 血压

ER: emergency room

investigation: 调查

mandatory： 必须的

autopsy： 解刨 （n）

rumor： 流言/传言

relief： 救济; 解脱; (不快过后的)宽慰; 轻松; (焦虑、痛苦等的)减轻; 消除; 缓和; (给灾区或交战地区人民提供的)救援物品;

call in favors：找关系

lived a full life：圆满的人生

fades: 褪色; (使)变淡，变暗; 逐渐消逝; 逐渐消失; 衰退，衰落;

hoard: 囤

treat: （v）治疗，好的对待
ie. You should treat yourself to a nice dinner.
ie. Dinner is my treat. (n)

therapy：治疗 therapeutic：治愈的

shortage: 短缺

got in an argument：争执发生了

talented: 有才华

love at first sight：一见钟情

pretty：相当; 很;

in person：面对面

mother tongue：母语 （舌头）

convey: 传达; 输送; 传送; 运送; 表达，传递(思想、感情等
ie. I want to convey my emotions/my meaning.

Grammar

back – not a verb
ie. She wants to be/go back home.

home – treat it like a direction word, ie “there” “here”

past cont.: have been
ie. I have been trying to move in to my new apt recently.
ie. I have been buying lots of white T-shirts.

I have bought lots of white T-shirts.

argue/argument

“life happens”

She can’t move last year
She hadn’t been able to move since last year (point in time)

she come to the hospital to buy medicine
she went to the hospital to buy medicine

she and a person who buy medicine in the hospital argued and …. the doctor called the ambulance sent her to the ER.
she and a person who was buying medicine in the hospital got in an argument and her blood pressure rose…. the doctor called the ambulance sent her to the ER.

After the full-body exam/thorough exam, everything is OK.

She will back home this Monday.
She would’ve been back home this Monday.
She said she would be back home this Monday.

in the afternoon of the same day
in that afternoon

the funeral decide on …
the date/time of the funeral depends on results of the investigation

I met her last time in Osaka
The last time I met her was(verb) in Osaka.  (Something was in Osaka)

don’t like back to home
Jap men don’t like to go back home.

most of them are the same
most of them are like this

When I met him for first time
The first time when I met him

I think English is not enough to convey my meaning.
I couldn’t convey my meaning well in English.

I think I wouldn’t be able to.

once a year

Pronunciation

close clothe clothes

month months

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