VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Private car
When I see this subject, I remembered a phase in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. An old prisoner Brooks got parole after 50 years. When he in the outside, he wrote a letter to his prisoners, he said:” Dear fellas: I can’t believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid… …but now there’re everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.” Yes, this’s the trend of the whole world. China is also in a rapid development period, we have more and more private car in our city or our village. I born in a little village, when I was a kid it’s hard to see a car in there, but this year I came back to my hometown there were a lot of car park in our walk side. Most of the owners are working in the cities driving back to the hometown when the Chinese New Year. Through this we also can see how fast the development in China. There’s a good thing but also got a lot of air pollution problems, I think this the urgent thing that our government should solve.

Private car
When I see this subject, I remembered a phrase in / quote from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. An old prisoner Brooks got parole after 50 years. When he on the outside / when he got out he wrote a letter to his cellmates, and said:” Dear fellas: I can’t believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid……but now there’re everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.” Yes, this’s the trend of the whole world. China is also in a rapid development period, we have more and more private cars in our cities or our villages. I was born in a little village and when I was a kid it was hard to see a car there, but this year when I came back to my hometown there were a lot of cars parked on the sidewalk. Most of the owners are working in the cities and driving back to the hometown for Chinese New Year. Through this we also can see how fast the development in China is. This is a good thing but also caused / causes a lot of air pollution problems. I think this is an urgent thing / one of the urgent things that our government should solve.

Vocabulary

lead by example – to teach / show people how they should act by doing it yourself rather than saying it.
eg. when I have kids I want to lead by example

trim / trimming – the outside border line
eg. the table has a thin black trim

off-white – a little darker / different color than white

stool – a chair with no back or armrests

counter = bench 

frosted glass < > clear glass

square (4 sides equal) / rectangle (parallel sides are equal) / triangle (san jiao xing) / circle 

tint – 浅色调
eg. the room has a warm tint

bedside table 

goose down – see pronunciation video

slope
eg. the slope was a little steep

floorboards / wooden floors

in chinese name we called it – In chinese we call it / we say 

cooker-hood – the ventilation for a stove

deliberately – gu yi de
eg. I deliberately booked you at 12 today

I was born in 1985 = My mother gave birth to me in 1985 = My parents had me in 1985

I thought it was…. = yi wei

Grammar

hard to get generous – hard to be generous 

it is so fast / we can see how fast it is

I don’t know what type of drink that is