Nov 27th: patch things up

A: I thought he kick you guys out.
B: Yes he did.
A: When did you patch things up?
B: We didn't.

patch things up: agree to stop fighting, become friends again


고아라 and 정우 fights a lot, but they patch things up and go on.

off the top of one's head

I can't recall her name off the top of my head.

The idea off the top of my head is to change the policy dynamically.

Off the top of my head: without giving it too much thought or without precise knowledge.

go round in circles

Go round in circles : keep making the same points without making progress in a discussion, an argument, etc.

ex) My english goes round in circles. I will spend more time improving english after getting RA position.
ex) This discussion is going round and round in circles. Let's make a decision.

This is from naver dictionary. However, I think it is different from an expression we learned.
I will ask her next class.

Nov 19: Apple might cease to exist as the company that it was

Apple might cease to exist as the company that it was.

I cease to exist as the man that I was.

From today, I'll practice one sentence from the Steve Jobs video.

It'll be mostly simple sentence. 

Nov 15th: take a toll

Six months ago, I was pretty happy with my life,
and then my marriage fell apart and my life fell apart,
I think it took its toll on me.

Take a toll: have a bad effect on somebody/something; cause a lot of damage, deaths, suffering, etc

Nov 11th: Comfort is overrated

Com­fort is often over­rated.  In my com­fort zone, noth­ing hap­pens.

Nov 10th: in shape

After the conference, I failed to keep in shape during weekends.
I slept whole day today, and now I'm back in shape now.

in shape: in good physical condition.

Nov 9: BoF

There was a BoF section in SOSP 2013.

BoF is from "Birds of a feather flock together".


BoF

• A BoF session, an informal meeting at conferences, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda.
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some words

1. In this manner (이런 식으로)
2. in effect(사실상, 실제로는, in actual practice, in fact)

* Paper
ex) In this manner, the knowledge base in effect becomes naturally embedded in the network management and operations system itself.

ex) Huge volumes of unstructured monitoring data is received in this manner.

* dictionary
1) Do it in this manner
2) We have to finish this work in a timely manner (fashion) - 적시에
3) In effect, the two systems are identical.
4) His wife had, in effect, run the government for the past six months.



3. make use of something/somebody
- use somebody/something for your own advantage

* Paper
1) State-of-the-art event correlation systems make use of service specific temporal and spatial models.

* Dictionary
1) We could make better use of our resources.


4. allow for (somebody/something)
- To include something when you are calculating something or planning something

1) It will take about an hour to get there, allowing for traffic delays.
2) All these factors must be allowed for.
3) Add an extra ten minutes to your journey time to allow for the traffic.


My sentences.
* We should make better use of the advantage of staying America.
* It will take about 25 hours to get to Korea since we allow for the stopover.

Serve as

1. Serve as/for something
- to be used instead of something else when there is nothing better available.

* in the paper
ex) Provider service design documents typically serve as input to software system domain experts.

* in a dictionary
ex) An old box served as a table.
ex) Small temporary buildings had to serve for offices

Nov 4th, as follows

ex) The remainder of this document is organized as follows.
ex) The rest of this paper is organized as follows.

as follows ( 다음과 같이, 이 follows는 비인칭 동사로 항상 ...s를 취한다.)

Nov 2nd: chicken out

A: I didn't call off the engagement.
B: What happened? Did you just chicken out?


Chicken out: to manage to get out of something, usually because of fear or cowardice

Nov 2. In the presence of

1. in the presence of ( = with somebody/something in the same place )

ex) The knowledge plane needs to make judgments in the presence of partial or conflicting information.

ex) How can the algorithms of the KP protect themselves, filter out bad information, and reach valid conclusions in the presence of uncertainty and misrepresentation?


I will post the word or phrase which use the most frequently in the paper and I think we can use this in daily life.

Nov 1st: have bigger fish to fry

A: You wanna play soccer today?
B: No! I have bigger fish to fry.

have bigger fish to fry: to have more important things to do