VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

fleece: 绒

predicament: 尴尬的处境; 困境; 窘境

deep shit: big trouble

laughing stock: 笑柄; 笑料

democratic: min zhu. democracy (n)

subsidy: 补贴

pension: 退休金; 养老金; 抚恤金

a record low

inadequate: 不充分的; 不足的; 不够的; 不胜任的; 缺乏信心的

inheritance: 遗产

report card： 成绩单

Grammar

logic link
ie. when you put idea A and B together in a sentence, find their relationship and use the correct connecting words (due to, as a result of, after, when, …)

same old

nothing interesting really, how about you?

boring day as usual

I’m not very busy these days so there’s really not much to tell

In the time we’ve been apart, nothing interesting happened to me. What about you?

1. I am searching …
2.  I am remember ….
3. I am recalling what I did these days but there’s nothing happened so it’s the same old.
   I was trying to recall what I did these days but there’s nothing happening/nothing is happening so it’s the same old.

It’s a habit
I’m used to this structure

I’m afraid
I was afraid

The government could not afford the burden.
The government could not afford to bear the burden./bear the burden.

I just gave an example, but I don’t know the details/the specifics.
Just as an example, …

they started work at very young ages../very early 

In HK, the child of celebrities also go to schools like this.

Three child policy

There’s no detail news I focus, I just summarized the info about Three child policy and would like to have a discussion with you tonight.

In the past, about more than 30 years ago, in China, we had One-child policy, we called it family planning.
But now, experienced the ages and times due to the policy, China has more and more elder and the government are under stress from elderly. The country are aging and will undergo this embarrassed phase in a long run if there’s no intervention.

The school was located in a village, surrounded by cropland. It is the only one middle school of that village, though it looks a little poor, it is the hope of the whole village, the beginning of dreams of local children.

Edited:

Three child policy

There’s no detailed(adj) news I would like to focus on/I didn’t focus on any detailed/particular news, I just summarized the info about Three child policy and would like to have a discussion with you tonight.

In the past, about more than 30 years ago, in China, we had One-child policy, and we called it family planning.
But now, having experienced the results and consequences of the policy/after experiencing the series of events/consequences of this policy,/As a result of the policy,  China has more and more elderly people/elders/has a larger percentage of elderly people/older demographic and the government is under stress from this situation/this disproportionate population. The country is aging and will undergo this awkward phase in a long run if there’s no intervention./As this situation intensifies, the pressure on the government to intervene with the ….

The school was located in a village, surrounded by cropland. It is the only one middle school of that village. Though it looks a little poor, it is the hope of the whole village and the beginning of dreams of local children.

Pronunciation

focus – no “r”, not “forcurs”