J+J

When your heart starts racing and your stomach gets all weird, you have probably fallen in love. 当你心跳加速，胃口变的奇怪时，就可能是恋爱了。
Valentine’s Day 情人节
significant other 另一半
marketing ploy 营销手段
jewelry, purses, clothing and perfume 首饰、钱包、衣服、香水
name brand 名牌
luxury brand 奢侈品牌
In Canada, most people who buy luxury brands are very wealthy. Most middle-class Canadians don’t buy luxury goods.
在加拿大，大部分买奢侈品的人都是有钱人，中产阶级不买奢侈品。
Luxury product consumers are typically much older in Canada since they earn higher incomes. Many well-to-do Canadian retirees are willing to spend money on expensive cars. 在加拿大，奢侈品的消费者都是典型的高龄高薪者，很多退休的人愿意花钱买豪车。
In Canada you don’t really see someone carrying an expensive bag but wearing cheap clothes and shoes. It should be a complete head to toe look. 在加拿大，你看不见一个人背着很贵的包却穿着很便宜的衣服和鞋，他们从头到脚都那么穿。
aspirational 梦寐以求的
label-conscious persons 注重品牌的人
designer label 设计师品牌
You can wear them differently, not like a uniform. 你可以穿的很不同，不像制服。
accessible luxury 轻奢
candlelight dinner 烛光晚餐
fancy restaurant 高档餐厅
going Dutch/ splitting the bill AA制
cheap 太小气了
date exclusively 只跟他/她约会
approach 方式
Until we feel we really love him or her and want to take the relationship to a more serious level. 直到你感到你真正爱上他（她）了，并想跟他（她）进一步发展。
I’ll call you. 我们不合适。
good-looking 颜值高
But outside beauty is only skin deep and will fade over time. 外在美太肤浅了，很容易消失。
However, inner beauty, or someone who is beautiful on the inside, just gets more and more beautiful with time. 然而内在美随着时间的沉淀会变的更美。
Mark Twain said that you should never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. 马克吐温说与其试图去改变一个错的人，还不如努力去寻找对的人。
my dear/ love/ some common pet names/ honey/ babe/ beautiful/ gorgeous 常用爱称
I've been dying to meet you. 我好想见你。
When I close my eyes, all I see is you. 一闭上眼睛，看到的全是你。
I want to grow old with you. 我想和你一起变老。

Chinese New Year 春节
blessing words 祝福语
Hope you have a wonderful time with your family! 阖家欢乐
Wishing you a peaceful life! 岁岁平安
Best wishes/ all the best 一切都好
calligraphy 书法
scrolls/ couplets 春联、对联
Qing Dynasty 清朝
eat the New Year’s Eve feast 吃年夜饭
big deal 大餐
watches CCTV New Year’s special 看春晚
Russell Peters 加拿大脱口秀演员
He has a way of making sensitive topics like race seem more lighthearted. 他说的都是些敏感话题，像很随意的讲种族问题。
talk show 脱口秀
Chinese monologue comic talk 单口相声
dumplings 饺子
play mahjong 打麻将
set off fireworks and firecrackers 放烟花爆竹
What is the new animal this year? 今年是什么年？
The year of the monkey. 今年是猴年。
What’s your animal sign? 你属什么的？
It’s not my animal year. 今年不是我的本命年。
red underwear 红内衣
lucky money/ red envelop 红包
stay up all night 熬夜
Son-in-Law Day 姑爷节
visiting relatives and friends 走亲探友
I’m so scared to hear 初一、初二. I’m always so confused. 我超怕听到初一、初二，我总是很困惑。
solar calendar阳历
lunar calendar 阴历

Chinese New Year 春节
blessing words 祝福语
Hope you have a wonderful time with your family! 阖家欢乐
Wishing you a peaceful life! 岁岁平安
Best wishes/ all the best 一切都好
calligraphy 书法
scrolls/ couplets 春联、对联
Qing Dynasty 清朝
eat the New Year’s Eve feast 吃年夜饭
big deal 大餐
watches CCTV New Year’s special 看春晚
Russell Peters 加拿大脱口秀演员
He has a way of making sensitive topics like race seem more lighthearted. 他说的都是些敏感话题，像很随意的讲种族问题。
talk show 脱口秀
Chinese monologue comic talk 单口相声
dumplings 饺子
play mahjong 打麻将
set off fireworks and firecrackers 放烟花爆竹
What is the new animal this year? 今年是什么年？
The year of the monkey. 今年是猴年。
What’s your animal sign? 你属什么的？
It’s not my animal year. 今年不是我的本命年。
red underwear 红内衣
lucky money/ red envelop 红包
stay up all night 熬夜
Son-in-Law Day 姑爷节
visiting relatives and friends 走亲探友
I’m so scared to hear 初一、初二. I’m always so confused. 我超怕听到初一、初二，我总是很困惑。
solar calendar阳历
lunar calendar 阴历

Thailand 泰国
AirAsia 亚航
Nothing is free. No food, newspaper, baggage allowance, passenger lounge at airport or even frequent-flyer-miles. 什么都不免费。没有食物、报纸、行李限制严格、贵宾室和常旅客。
There’s only one aircraft type, so maintenance and training of pilots and crew go through the same program to meet global safety standards. There is no business or first class that requires additional training. 他们只有一种机型，所以维修及对飞行员和机组人员的培训，通过同一个项目就可以满足全球安全标准。没有商务舱和头等舱所以不需要额外的培训。
Airlines also have this formula that they use to calculate how many passengers will show up for each flight. 亚航有一套公式，可以计算出每架航班实际能乘坐多少人。
Airlines use a fare ticket system that rewards early tickets purchases online. 亚航有网络购票系统作为早购票的酬谢。
A number of seats are reserved for promo fares on a first-come-first-serve basis. 大量的座位可以预定，按照先到先得的原则促销。
piso fare 特价票
discounted fare 打折票
full price fare 全价票
On some holidays, if you take the flight going the opposite way, the same day, you are bound to get a really good deal. 在节假日，如果你购买同一天的逆程机票一定很划算。
budget airlines 廉价航空
Less time spent taxiing and cuing for take off means more time spent in the air. 减少滑行时间并及时起飞意味着更多飞行时间。
A quick turnaround at the airport means not using boarding bridges for arrivals and departures and saving up to 4 minutes on the ground. At the end of day, it can add up to a whole additional flight. 在机场一个很快的转弯意味着出发和到达的时候不使用登机桥，在地面上可节省4分钟。一天下来，可以多飞一班。
Southwest/ Jetstar/ WestJet/ Ryanair 分别是美国、澳洲、加拿大、欧洲的廉价航空
ladyboys 人妖
plaza 广场、购物中心
Ladyboys are males who use hormones and plastic surgery to become females. 人妖是男性用荷尔蒙和整形的技术变成女性。
But you can often still recognize them because their bone structure and Adam’s apple. 但是你仍然可以通过骨骼和喉结辨认出来。
Some ladyboys have breast implants or a full sex change, while others just keep what they are born with. 一些人妖做了丰胸和变性手术，另一些还保留着男性生殖器。
A lot of people can’t understand until they meet these girls, you realize it isn’t just a bunch of guys in dresses. It’s a group of pretty women. 很多人看到人妖才明白，他们不是穿着裙子的男人，都是些绝色美女。
Superwomen 女超人
Ladyboys also find western men to be desirable partners, especially if they have money, maturity and stability. 人妖也寻找西方男人作为理想的伴侣，特别是有钱成熟稳重的。

skiing 滑雪
skating 滑冰
magical 迷人的、魔力的
frozen river 结冰的河
skating rink 溜冰场
Carnival 冰雪嘉年华
Quebec 魁北克
Millions of people swarm into the city at that time. 上百万人同时涌入这个城市。
impressive 给人印象深刻的、感人的
vapor 水蒸气
rime 雾凇
Antarctica 南极
Inuit 因纽特人
Eskimo 爱斯基摩人
These people migrated from Asia actually to the Arctic twice through Bering Strait. 他们通过白令海峡从亚洲到北极地区进行了两次迁徙。
They live in Greenland, Alaska and Northern Canada. 他们居住在格陵兰岛、阿拉斯加和加拿大北部。
igloo 冰屋
Many people take the edge off the cold by drinking some strong liquor to warm up their insides. 很多人为了驱赶寒冷，会喝高度酒让自己暖和起来。
whisky 威士忌
vodka 伏特加
In the past the Inuit used to live by fishing and hunting. 因纽特人过去以捕鱼打猎维生。
raw meat 生肉
Cold can be a weapon. 寒冷是一种武器。
Besides the polar region, the next coldest part in the world is Northern Europe. 除了极地地区，世界最寒冷的地方是北欧。
Nobel Prize 诺贝尔奖

calorie 卡路里
cappuccino 卡比奇诺
snack 小吃、点心
slim 苗条的
TOFI—thin outside, fat inside 外表瘦，内脏肥大
It means you have visceral fat that lines your internal organs.
意思是内脏脂肪附着在内部器官上。
The fat is going into your gut, and then into your bloodstream.
脂肪经过大肠，然后进入血液当中。
While the fat is in your bloodstream, it’s causing a number of changes to your metabolism, which increases the risk of fatty deposits forming on the walls of your fat stores. 当脂肪进入血液，会产生大量新陈代谢的变化，他们会增加脂肪沉积在血管壁上的危险性。
The fat under the surface of your skin is not as bad as the fat that’s deep inside you. 你的皮下脂肪没有内部脂肪那么可怕。
press hunger signals 抑制讥饿的信号
That’s a clever way to fool your brain! 这是很好的方式去欺骗你的大脑。
compensate 补偿
When this hormone fights with your willpower, your willpower will lose. 当这种荷尔蒙与意志力斗争的时候，意志力输了。
multicolored candies 彩色的糖果
variety 多样化
buffets 自助餐
skim milk 脱脂牛奶
low fat yoghourt 低脂酸奶
absorb less fat 吸收少量脂肪
plate’s size 盘子的大小
obese 极为肥胖的
overweight 超重的
get diabetes 患糖尿病
We know that diet impacts our weight, and our weight impacts our health.
我们知道饮食影响体重，体重影响健康。
healthcare crisis 健康危机

ancient Greece 古希腊
battle 战役
Athens 雅典
commemorate 纪念
Olympic games 奥林匹克运动会
full marathon 全马
half marathon 半马
quarter marathon 四分马
Boston 波士顿
Chicago 芝加哥
qualification 报名资格
trail racing 越野跑
night running 夜跑
take selfie 自拍
pounding the pavement 压马路
hitting the gym 去健身房健身
NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis)不运动时的热量消耗
While your body is not moving, gunk builds up in your system. Your blood sugar levels elevate as well as your blood fats. 当你不动的时候，黏性物质聚集，血糖会升高，血脂也会随之升高。
activate 激活
muscle tissue 肌肉组织
firm up 结实
waist line 腰身
Olympic hopefuls 奥林匹克种子选手

Are you STILL single? 你还单着呢？
Are you seeing anyone? 有没有约出来见见？
bachelor 单身男士
bachelorette 单身女士
single 单身（统称）
nosy relatives 爱管闲事的亲戚们
blind date 相亲
We usually don't have the same kind of pressure as Chinese people do.
我们不像中国有那么大的结婚压力。
You have to get parental consent and/or court consent.
你需要得到父母和（或）法律的允许。
Islamic countries 伊斯兰国家
tomboy 女汉子、假小子
ideal woman/ the woman of my dreams 女神
ideal man/ the man of my dreams 男神
manly man 纯爷们儿
Bruce Lee 李小龙
pretty boy 俊俏的男生、小鲜肉
one-child policy 独生子女政策
two-child policy 二胎政策

calorie 卡路里
cappuccino 卡比奇诺
snack 小吃、点心
slim 苗条的
TOFI—thin outside, fat inside 外表瘦，内脏肥大
It means you have visceral fat that lines your internal organs.
意思是内脏脂肪附着在内部器官上。
The fat is going into your gut, and then into your bloodstream.
脂肪经过大肠，然后进入血液当中。
While the fat is in your bloodstream, it’s causing a number of changes to your metabolism, which increases the risk of fatty deposits forming on the walls of your fat stores. 当脂肪进入血液，会产生大量新陈代谢的变化，他们会增加脂肪沉积在血管壁上的危险性。
The fat under the surface of your skin is not as bad as the fat that’s deep inside you. 你的皮下脂肪没有内部脂肪那么可怕。
press hunger signals 抑制讥饿的信号
That’s a clever way to fool your brain! 这是很好的方式去欺骗你的大脑。
compensate 补偿
When this hormone fights with your willpower, your willpower will lose. 当这种荷尔蒙与意志力斗争的时候，意志力输了。
multicolored candies 彩色的糖果
variety 多样化
buffets 自助餐
skim milk 脱脂牛奶
low fat yoghourt 低脂酸奶
absorb less fat 吸收少量脂肪
plate’s size 盘子的大小
obese 极为肥胖的
overweight 超重的
get diabetes 患糖尿病
We know that diet impacts our weight, and our weight impacts our health.
我们知道饮食影响体重，体重影响健康。
healthcare crisis 健康危机

ancient Greece 古希腊
battle 战役
Athens 雅典
commemorate 纪念
Olympic games 奥林匹克运动会
full marathon 全马
half marathon 半马
quarter marathon 四分马
Boston 波士顿
Chicago 芝加哥
qualification 报名资格
trail racing 越野跑
night running 夜跑
take selfie 自拍
pounding the pavement 压马路
hitting the gym 去健身房健身
NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis)不运动时的热量消耗
While your body is not moving, gunk builds up in your system. Your blood sugar levels elevate as well as your blood fats. 当你不动的时候，黏性物质聚集，血糖会升高，血脂也会随之升高。
activate 激活
muscle tissue 肌肉组织
firm up 结实
waist line 腰身
Olympic hopefuls 奥林匹克种子选手