VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

The two leaders fight against each other and I am in the middle.

One of the leaders is always telling me : you didn’t go to work today because I was in another office and directly she thought I was taking the day off. -> sometimes  I have to be in another office and the leader would think by mistake that I didn’t go to work.

The leaders always fight / clash for power and they always have relationships with the government or top leaders.

I am in the car loan department and the other department is the house loan.

Car loans are usually just 1y. / usually we just do 1 year loans when people want to buy cars.

They don’t want to take the subway maybe.

I feel the hotel is safer.

Babies play with soft toys.

I think it is related to racism

My classmate is in France, he studies there.

Shanghai air quality is good.  / I am satisfied with the AQ in Shanghai
I wear a mask when the air quality is bad.

I want to go to Beijing on a trip.
I want to visit the great wall and the museums.
I also want to visit the olympic stadium.

It is better if they stay in China.
Their living place and food are here. they are familiar with the place. / it is their natural habitat

I don’t like zoos, they are usually smelly.
There are elephants and tigers and lions.

virtual games look very real / look very realistic  / have very detailed graphics
I like to play soccer games on TV with a controller and a VR headset

Vocabulary

habitat (n) place where animals normally live
The forest is the habitat of wolves

virtual (adj) not real / online
We had a virtual meeting on Zoom

smelly (adj) having a strong bad smell
zoos are smelly in summer

to donate (v) give for free
The CEO decided to donate 10m to the association.

donation (n)
The CEO made a 10m donation to the association.

relic (n) old important religious item 圣人遗物
The church has an important relic

Sri Lanka (n)  斯里兰卡
I don’t really want to visit Sri Lanka

pride parade (n) LGBT parade
He took pictures of the pride parade in NYC

suburb (n) area far from the city center
Fengxian is in the suburb of Shanghai

to cloud (v) to make foggy / to make unclear
Drinking alcohol can cloud your judgement
The smoke clouds the sky

to clash (v) to get in conflict
the two leaders clashed over power

to default (v) not be able to pay back a loan
Tom was worried he may default on his loan after losing his job

submersible (n) vessel to go under the sea
We saw a submersible

submarine (n) boat for the army to go deep under the sea
Soldiers live in the submarine for weeks

debris (n) broken pieces
the kids threw a stone at the window and the glass shattered. we found debris all over the room.

vessel (n) container / something which carries people or something else
This is vessel to go under the sea

wreckage (n) where the main part of a destroyed ship lays
We want to find the wreckage of the ship because we think it had gold

to implode (v) opposite of explosion / happening from the inside
The submersible imploded

promotional (adj) : related to marketing
We want to launch a new promotional campaign for BoC on the internet.