3/24学写英文

Persistence make things happen. I persisted, then I got my vaccine appointment, which will be on Friday, March 26^th. The excitement came to me at the moment when I was told “your appointment is confirmed, congratulation!”, then disappeared quickly. I have been walking outside almost every day since the outbreak of the pandemic back to Mar of 2020. My life will not be quite different after vaccination, but I have to worry about the upcoming side-effects. The chance of getting severe reaction is minor, I have no food allergy, no drug allergy…, I bought lottery but never won a penny back. I am not an extremely lucky person, most probably I will be as same as the majority, either no reactions or having mild reactions.  I comforted myself.

 

Based on local news, 50% of people age over 45 have been vaccinated in CT, such high vaccination rate shocked me. I shared my thought with one of my neighbors, a guy at age of 60s. He said it doesn’t surprised him. He was born and grow up here. CT people’s personality lead to the current outcome. "We are well-educated, we believe science , we learn and accept new things, we are people who having common sense! We are neither extremely right, nor left. We are low-key people, we do things really good to the country, the society and the communites.  not for attracting people’s eyeballs."

 

I nodded with laugher. “I definitely agree with what you said!” I saw the traits from governor Ned Lamont who is an excellent leader in the pandemic. 

 

Just a day after our conversation, I heard an interview from CT public radio station. “CT set a good example in dealing with this covid-19 crisis……

 

Since March 20^th, the first day of spring, We have been going through three warm spring days with the highest inland temperature at 60F, shoreland at 50F, today will be another warm spring day with slight shower in the afternoon.  Our Chinese have a saying that the rain in spring is as precious as oil. Today’s rain will be a start, I am looking forward the coming of more spring rains.

公园里的水仙花开了30%

 

上周二的亚特兰大惨案，我也看到了事件对我的影响：前日中午接孩子放学回家，在学校内的三叉路口处，两道上的车子本该让行，交替通过。我前面的车子过了后，我开到路口，等待另一个路口车辆通行。可是等了几秒钟我也不见对方车子动，最后我想：难道是对方让我先行？犹豫一下，我开过去了。从后视镜中，我看到那辆车跟随在我后面开出。可能对方是在用这种方式表示对亚裔女性的同情或支持吧。

 

[魏薇]

回复 'ibelieu' 的评论 : Thank you again for your sharing! so some people were born with an insatiable thirst for publicity. "The most dangerous place is between Blumenthal and a camera.""so funny!

"Broken Chinese", the first time I heard. I learned,Thanks!

[ibelieu]

回复 '魏薇' 的评论 : Thank you for your kind words. The Connecticut Attorney General's Office was my employer for 30 years until my retirement in 2017. I served two attorneys general during my time there, first Richard Blumenthal, who is a US senator now, and then George Jepsen, who has been replaced by William Tong and is now in private practice. Blumenthal was known for his political ambition and insatiable thirst for publicity when he was attorney general. We had a saying when he was our boss: "The most dangerous place is between Blumenthal and a camera." Jepsen studied Chinese in Taiwan in his younger days. I was quite surprised when he started speaking broken Chinese to me during his first visit to my department. To set himself apart from his predecessor, Jepsen declared during his very first meeting with us that he would not seek any other political office once he was done there. I knew Tong was going to run for Attorney General, but never had a chance to meet him as I had retired when he assumed the office.

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回复 '古树羽音' 的评论 : 你在日本生活多年，日文一定很好了！我一个日文字也不认识：）但估计我儿子认识一些，他喜欢玩日本游戏，我还听到了日本游戏里的歌。你对水仙花的感觉是正确的，是挺结实的，可能是开在三月末，氧温还是初春的微寒，夜里还会下霜，需要长得结实点才挺得过来。不像樱花，吉野樱开在四月底，晚樱要到五月初才开。

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回复 '冻爷' 的评论 : Thanks for your correction! I thought about should I use " makes or make..." I didn't do further research about this before I rushly have it posted.

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回复 'ibelieu' 的评论 :
I visited your blog and found out you are an attorney which made me think about CT’s attorney general William Tong. I listened his interview on CT public radio station days ago. It’s my great honor to have you visit my blog and wrote down your reviews. Your personal stories recalled me of Thomas Edison’s saying “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”.

Thanks for sharing your experiences in vaccination registration. I heard there are various ways of vaccine registration, like CDC website, vaccine hotline, pharmacy stores’ websites… I registered thought CVS website. As you said, the process is quite simple and there are a lot of availabilities on time and place. Being a CT resident, I am also proud of CT’s leadership in dealing with the pandemic. :)

[古树羽音]

我英文水平有限，需要消化。但看到你的水仙，北美的品种真结实！ 感谢分享

[冻爷]

Persistence makes...

[ibelieu]

I agree with you that Connecticut has done an excellent job in rolling out the vaccine. :) Once it’s a group’s turn, people in that group can easily register for the shots on a state run portal and are presented with plenty of choices of time, place and variety of vaccine. Numerous in-state medical providers who offer primary care have taken upon themselves to help with the rollout effort by sending email notices to qualified people and running their own portals for registration. I also live in Connecticut, and am very proud of the job the state has done in dealing with the pandemic.

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回复 '梅华书香' 的评论 : 很高兴小记对梅华有帮助!

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回复 '吴友明' 的评论 : 吴老师也有很多好习惯，我们大家相互学习！

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回复 'TJKCB' 的评论 : Thank you for your correction! I totally agree with you. :)

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回复 '暖冬cool夏' 的评论 : 我是看到暖冬的坚持才开始学写的。谢谢暖冬给予的鼓励，这种进步在我自己写的时候，我也感觉到了。一点体会是：听+读，然后再习写，效率最高。你说的对，我也感到小镇上的人多善良，民风朴素。早在去年初时，也把我的这一感觉告诉了家人，让他们不必因为疫情而对我担心。

[梅华书香]

好分享！！

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回复 '菲儿天地' 的评论 :我是受到暖冬的鼓励和影响学写英文，你也来加入吧:)

我是暖冬的意思:)
距离很近，我想对方可以看到车内的我:)

[吴友明]

经常学英文的习惯很好！值得学习！

[TJKCB]

preferred "agree on. sth with sb." even though commonly seen like “I definitely agree with what you said!”

[暖冬cool夏]

回复 '菲儿天地' 的评论 : 特别佩服魏薇的坚持 +1， 魏薇英文写的绝对有进步的。
菲儿，魏薇这里可能就是想说，打了疫苗后生活没有什么变化的:)
魏薇住的地方民风好，人善良，但是歧视肯定有的，everywhere,职场，公共场合。

[菲儿天地]

特别佩服魏薇的坚持，我也应该多写英文，等暖冬过来。

这里是不是应该没有那个not?

My life will （not） be quite different after vaccination, but I have to worry about the upcoming side-effects.

另外在车里，我有时候发现不太能看得请对方的种族，也许就是客气？：）