VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

working in SH and in NJ.
I travel to NJ once a week

I go there early in the morning and I come back at night -> I go there on a day trip

the fastest train is 1h -> only takes 1 h

because of history the city is too political -> it is a political center because of the history.
The city makes me sad / depressed
I am scared of to be there ->  I am scared of going there.

I think the lifestyle is slower than Shanghai.
They have less pressure than SH people  / Shanghainese and the salary is at least 30% lower because between colleagues who have the same position the salary is lower however she has been working for 3 years.
You can take a SH salary and work in NJ. / the best of both worlds would be to have the SH salary and the cost of living of NJ.

It is like a border if someone goes to another city./ it is like an expatriate job

if it says something bad I will take care about my work. -> I will be more careful on my work
easy to angry -> easily get angry

the most strange/ strangest blood type is AB

I heard an issue about the people in their 20s  / millennials , they usually escape from their work or the place where they live.
If you work in SH, you escape from SH and make an appointment with a stranger who you met on the internet or abroad and you meet in another city and have fun for 2 days or 3 days and then come back.

They don’t want to leave the whole week to escape from their social life.

I am not sure how they judge if they are safe or not with a stranger. / I am not sure how decide if someone is trustworthy or not.

Vocabulary

alcohol tolerance (n) how much you can drink before being tipsy
She has a very high alcohol tolerance.

to flirt (v) 调情
Someone started to flirt with me on Instagram

social butterfly (n) Someone who enjoys frequently mingling with other people at social events. / someone who very easily makes friend with everyone
Tom is a social butterfly, he just arrived in SH yesterday and he already made more than 10 friends 

stingy (adj) 小气 / cheap
Our boss is so stingy he made us go to BJ on a business trip but we had to pay everything by ourselves

indecisive (adj) hesitant
Tom is very indecisive about his future job

unfaithful (adj) 花心
It is said that people who are Leo are unfaithful

fussy (adj) 龟毛 / hard to please
I don’t like to do things with Tom, he is so fussy.

superstitious (adj) 迷信的
Tom is quite superstitious

horoscope (n) 占星术
I check my horoscope everyday

fortune cookie  (n) : kind of cookie served in western Chinese restaurants with a saying inside
He opened a fortune cookie and didn’t understand what was written

to get nowhere (v) : produce no result
I tried to solve the issue by myself but I was getting nowhere so I decided to call an expert

digital nomad (n) people who work from anywhere on the internet
Many digital nomads live in Bali

nomad (n/adj) 流浪者
Tom is a nomad, he moves between cities every few weeks

expatriation (n) working outside of your contry
expatriation can be very difficult

expatriate (expat) (n) Someone working outside of his country
He was sent to China as an expat

day trip (n) : a trip in which you go in the morning and come back at night
I went on a day trip to Nanjing

Pronunciation

fastest

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