Tina Tang的部落格

Obama Speech and Hark The Herald Angels Sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKNDVwYXk4A

1. 1.      Charity
2. 2.      Compassion
3. 3.      Goodwill

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Hark the herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled"
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim:
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"

Christ by highest heav'n adored
Christ the everlasting Lord!
Late in time behold Him come
Offspring of a Virgin's womb
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate Deity
Pleased as man with man to dwell
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"

Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Son of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings
Ris'n with healing in His wings
Mild He lays His glory by
Born that man no more may die
Born to raise the sons of earth
Born to give them second birth
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"

Sex and City 慾望城市

Auld Lang Syne 友誼萬歲

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjtej559pQE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine;
We've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin' auld lang syne.

We two hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne.

And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

symbiosis à stands for living

biography

biology

biochemist

encounter à put into

enamor 使迷戀

enable 使有能力

enact 頒布(法案)

C.V. = resume 履歷表à Curriculum vitae

*References will be provided upon request.

A Room with a View 窗外有藍天

peevish 壞心眼的

definition: feeling or showing irritation

“Mother doesn’t like me playing Beethoven. She says I’m peevish afterwards.”

sympathy à identify my feeling for you

com- à together

combine

comate 同伴

combination 可結合的

benefit à something good

benedicite 祝福

benefactor 恩人

benefit 行善的

1. 1.       shelter
2. 2.      protection from predator
3. 3.      easy access to food

association à something are connected

antenna(單)

antennae(複) 天線

intestine 腸子

binder clip

business suit à color

black

gray

native blue

white

col-, com-, cor-, à together

colleague

compress壓縮

correct

aut-, auto- à self

authentic 可靠的/真實的

autogamic 自花受粉的

automobile 汽車的/自動推進的

scanning 掃描的

nov- à something new

innovative

novel

novice新手/初學者

onion-like castle à St.Basil Cathedral

FedEx à Cast Away 浩劫重生

port 港口

airport 空港

transportation 運費/運輸

I will pass. à委婉地說不要

think of…

product placement 置入性行銷

rivalry友善的競爭/競爭者

opponent 對手/反對者

enemy 死對頭/仇敵

foe 勁敵/仇人

stanza(poem) à paragraph(speech)

Hamlet

Frailty thy Name is Woman

Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on't—

Frailty, thy name is woman!—

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”

àIs it better to live or to die?

Fragile 易碎的/虛弱的

An eye doctor whose billboard overlooks the road to West Egg

èoverlooks the humanistic

River Styx à Charon

T.S. Eliot  Waste Land荒原

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

bartleby 華爾街的抄寫員

Aphrodite(Venus)

myrtle tree

have an affair 外遇

sitcom à situation comedy 情境喜劇

boot 酒(橡木桶)

bootlegger 私酒販賣商

frittata 義大利烘蛋à egg-based Italian dish

兄à Prometheus

Titans

creation of man from clay

theft of fire

弟àEpimetheus

Pandora à Pandora’s box à hope

 50, 000, 000, 000

thrillion  billion    million   thousand

Watch the movie

The Great Gatsby(2000)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUu3-XKHQY

Storyline:

Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, wealthy Jay Gatsby.

Nick Carraway moves from the Midwest to New York a bond salesman and finds himself the neighbor of Jay Gatsby. He's a wealthy bootlegger and forger, who has a huge estate bordering his modest cottage. Gatsby is well-known for throwing fabulous, hedonistic summer parties in 1922 West Egg, Long Island. Gatsby befriends Nick and enlists him in to broker a meeting between him and his former love Daisy Buchanen, Nick's cousin. She is now married to the snobbish and selfish Tom Buchanen, who flaunts an extramarital affair he is having with the proletarian wife of a local garage owner. Nick consents to arrange a meeting with Gatsby and Daisy, a rendezvous that will have tragic consequences.

The Great Gatsby(2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7yBQIGyunI

eva- à out of, away from

evacuate 撤退/排出

evaporate 蒸發

evasive 迴避的

“The power is out.” 沒電了。

power plant 電廠

nuclear power plant 核電廠

“Do you want me tuck you in?” 你要我幫你蓋被子嗎?

sub- à under

subscribe 訂閱

submerge 遮掩/使沉入水中

subway 地下鐵

siren 女妖/警笛

aquarium 水族館

henpecked 怕老婆的人

Christmas songs à It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2urlriwjcg

It's the most wonderful time of the year 
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you "Be of good cheer" 
It's the most wonderful time of the year 
It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings 
When friends come to call 
It's the hap- happiest season of all 

There'll be parties for hosting 
Marshmallows for toasting 
And caroling out in the snow 
There'll be scary ghost stories 
And tales of the glories of 
Christmases long, long ago 

It's the most wonderful time of the year 
There'll be much mistltoeing 
And hearts will be glowing 
When love ones are near 
It's the most wonderful time of the year 

There'll be parties for hosting 
Marshmallows for toasting 
And caroling out in the snow 
There'll be scary ghost stories 
And tales of the glories of 
Christmases long, long ago 

It's the most wonderful time of the year 
There'll be much mistltoeing 
And hearts will be glowing 
When love ones are near 
It's the most wonderful time 
It's the most wonderful time 
It's the most wonderful time 
It's the most wonderful time of the year

While You Were Sleeping  二見鍾情

American Dream 美國夢

F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Great Gatsby大亨小傳

講解期末考卷題型 

Stress-free (a.)無憂無慮

àcarefree, without worry

Duty-free (a.) 免稅的

àa. not taxed when taken into another country

b. selling goods that will not be taxed when taken into another country

Unit 6 Creature Feature

scarecrow 稻草人

sheepherder 牧羊人

Oral Report

Unit 5  Great Minds

Synesthesia (n.) 共感症

definition: 

1. a.      a concomitant sensation; especially :  a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated
2. b.      the condition marked by the experience of such sensations

syn- à together

synesthesia

synonymous

synaeresis

Let’s turn to page 87. I would like to tell you the third examples of synesthesia, the topic is “Not Enough Points on the Chicken”. The person who had synesthesia named Michael, but he didn’t know anything about it even the relationship between his sense, taste the shape. One day, Michael invited his neurological fried for dinner. Michael’s friend found something special of Michael’s house. Why it’s special? Look at first paragraph, line 2. “the unusual layout of his home.” “His house had no inside walls. Its “rooms” flowed into one another…”

Look at line 10. “while Michael stirred the sauce he had made for the roast chicken.” And Michael said, “there aren’t enough points on the chicken.” We can see that he can taste the shape from line 11, the sentence at right side.

On line 20. “Flavor has shape.” “I wanted the taste of this chicken to be a

pointed shape.” Michael tried to turn round “taste” into pointed “taste”.

Then, turn to page 88, look at line 35. “When I taste something with an intense flavor, the feeling sweeps down my arm into my fingers…” “feel it like I’m actually grasping something.” Michael is not just imagining the flavor and illustrate it, it is his true feeling, he really feels the shape.

As I mentioned at first, Michael’s unique rooms has something in common

with his brain. Just as there were no walls between the rooms of his house, I knew that Michael had no walls between his senses. Just as his rooms flowed into each other, so too taste, touch, movement, and color flowed together in his brain.

monitor

 /ɑ/

fixed income 死薪水

inflationary period 通貨膨脹時期

repair 修理

impair 損害/ 削減

xenophobia 對外國人(事物)的恐懼症

Xerox copy = carbon copy 影本

4-wheel-drive vehicle 四輪傳動車

liquid paper 立可白

destination 命運(可選擇)

fate 命運(不可選擇)

Fatal Destination 絕命終結站

John Donne  Forbidden Mourning

As virtuous men pass mildly away,

   And whisper to their souls to go,

Whilst some of their sad friends do say

   The breath goes now, and some say, No:

So let us melt, and make no noise,

   No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;

'Twere profanation of our joys

   To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,

   Men reckon what it did, and meant;

But trepidation of the spheres,

   Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love

   (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit

Absence, because it doth remove

   Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,

   That our selves know not what it is,

Inter-assured of the mind,

   Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,

   Though I must go, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion,

   Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so

   As stiff twin compasses are two;

Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show

   To move, but doth, if the other do.

And though it in the center sit,

   Yet when the other far doth roam,

It leans and hearkens after it,

   And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,

   Like th' other foot, obliquely run;

Thy firmness makes my circle just,

   And makes me end where I begun.

metal physical poetry à conceit

Thomas Hardy  Jude of the Obscure

obliquely 傾斜地

tradition

 /ә/

present

 /є/

roll call 點名

Pop culture à Popular culture

Alice Munro

won the 2013 Nobel Prize for literary

82 year old

short story

began writing in her teenage years

published her first story, The Dimensions of Shades, in 1950

Chekhov The Lady with The Dog

The Reader為愛朗讀

Rudyard Kipling  The Jungle Book泰山

Toni Morrison

Ernest Hemingway

uni à one

unique

unicorn

uniform

vir, ver à truth

Virgil

veritas 真理

verification 確認/證實/證明

 Oral Presentation

à1.What is that?

à2.What does that for?

                             à3.Why should we care?

     à五段論證法

 開頭:

 Good morning, everyone. We are the students from the department of English Instruction.

換人:

 That's all for my part, I'll leave the rest to my partner.

結束:

That's all for our presentation today. Any questions? Thanks for your attention.

 PPT  à 字體28~32   à Times New Roman

hypothesis à under

hypocrisy 偽善/虛偽

hypoactive 活動不足的

hypocenter 震源

hypothesis à statements, sentences

synthesis 綜合體

antithesis 對立/對比

sympathesis 交感/同感

acknowledgement à to, toward

accelerate

accident

accompany

agricultural à something about the earth

agrimotor 拖拉機

agrichemical

agriology 原始人類學

1.The Great Gatsby

2.Stuart Little à WASP

3.psychology VS. Oedipus Complex戀母情結

4.

obstacle à bad

obesity

obstacle

obituary

encourage à increase the stated quality

ensure

enlarge

broaden

predict à before

preview

unpredictable

preclude

advance à toward

advocate

disadvantage

addict

or, er, ist, ian, ant à person

doctor

teacher

artist

musician

flight attendant

contestant

accountant

protestant

anniversary à year

annual

annal

annalist

manipulate à human

manifold

manifest

maniform

hypothesis à under

hypoderm

hypocrisy

hypocenter

party alternation 政黨輪替