VIP Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

prequel (n): 1-a film, book, or play that develops the story of an earlier film, etc. by telling you what happened before the events in the first film, etc.
（据已问世文艺作品的情节凭想象上溯创作的）先行篇，上篇，前传
Jean Rhys’s novel “Wide Sargasso Sea” is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre”.
琼•里斯的小说《藻海无边》是夏洛蒂•勃朗特的《简•爱》的前篇。

sequel (n): 1-a book, film, or play that continues the story of a previous book, etc.
（书、电影或戏剧的）续篇，续集
E.g.: I’m reading the sequel to “Gone with the Wind”.
我正在读《飘》的续集。

passive (adj)- often disapproving not acting to influence or change a situation; allowing other people to be in control
被动的，消极的；顺从的
E.g.: He’s very passive in the relationship.
他在这一关系中非常被动。

intentional (adj):planned or intended
有意的，故意的
E.g.: Did you leave his name out by accident or was it intentional?
你漏掉了他的名字，是无意的还是有意的？

unintentional (adj): 1-not intentional无心的，非故意的
E.g.: That was an unintentional mistake

intentionally (adv): 故意1-in a planned or intended way:
E.g.: I didn’t ignore her intentionally – I just didn’t recognize her.
E.g.: She was being intentionally unpleasant.

unintentionally (adv):in a way that is not intentional:
I was either intentionally or unintentionally excluded from a lot of the decisions that were made.
The newspaper printed information that was unintentionally misleading.

mis- (prefix): 1-added to the beginning of a verb or word formed from a verb, to show that the action referred to by the verb has been done wrongly or badly:
E.g.: I never said that! You must have misheard me.
E.g.: His misbehavior eventually led to him being expelled from school.

Grammar

Watch a Movie vs See a Movie

We watched a movie yesterday.
This would imply we watched a movie at home (TV/DVD…)

We saw a movie yesterday.
This would imply that we did so by going to a movie theater. We can also explicitly say that we went to the movie theater and watched Ice Age.

See

We start to see unintentionally when we open our eyes, It may not be deliberate, we just see without any effort.

For example:

Can you see my house over the cliff?
Bats can see very well in the dark.
See you tomorrow.

Look

Different from the action “see” we make a special effort when we try to see something. It’s an active verb.

For example:

Don’t look at the sun with naked eye.
Look at me while I am speaking.
He looked at his watch and told me the time.

Watch

The verb “watch” is used when we look at something that moves or changes for a period of time. It’s a continuous action of looking and observing.

For example:

All day long I just watched TV yesterday.
I like watching the spectacular sun set every day.
Please be quiet, I am trying to watch the world cup series.