Diary 2023-04-23

Sometimes I want to use Japanese word in English sentence, but current implementation of ScrapboxAutoTrans translate any line which contains Japanese characters.

• It will make unexpected output in pages like Neochi.

Today's English conversation lesson

• I forgot to start recording...
• Often I forget to do.
• Today I roleplayed to interrupting other's presantation.
  • I feel I have to practice these phrases more and more.
  • Because the correct phrases are different in each situation. It depends on what I want to clalify.
  • However, when I interrupted others, I should say rapidly what I want to confirm. The time is limited.
  • I tryed hard and the instructor said I asked relevant question. That's nice, but I know they usually focus on good points.

I put several TED talk in my playlist and listening during walking from/to the station.

• Unfortunately, I can't catch the phrases.

Today I learned:

• My cat is roughly 8 years old

• Not quite.

  • When somebody has the wrong idea and you want to correct them.
  • Correcting others.
  • To correct yourself:
    • Ah sorry, I meant ...

• Future plans

  • We aim to ...

• unprecedented: unexpected, had not happend before

  • Covid-19 and the impact of the pandemic were unprecedented events.
  • And also, ChatGPT will cause unprecedented transform of human civilization.

• meet our target = achieve the goal

  • We met our target last year and sold 20,000 products.

• We are unable to meet the high demand.

• If thing continue on this trajectory ... = If things go on like this

• We need to invest in AI in order to beat the competition.

  • "beat the competition / win the competition"
  • "beat" is used for competition with person or company, "win" is used for competition like a sports event
    • (DeepL)"Beat" is used for competition with people or companies, while "win" is used for competition, such as in sports competitions

• Trying to crack the US market = trying to enter the US market

  • (DeepL) Tackling the challenge of developing the U.S. market

• become successful there = gain a foothold there = to get a market share

• They are all representative from different departments.

• Pronunciation: fiscal /ˈfɪskəl/

• So what you're saying is sales have doubled?

• go throught the roof

• Unfortunately, I don't have the answer for this question right now, but let me check with Tom and get back to you later.

• because we haven't determined the results yet

• because the data is still inconclusive

• because we haven't finished the research yet

• erratic: unpredictable

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