Tina Tang的部落格

porn = porno = pornography

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography

pro- à in favor of

propel

propose

proactive

man- à stands for hands

manufacture

manual

manacle

APA = American Psychological Association

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style

MLA = Modern Language Association

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Language_Association

Onomatopoeia

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

-ly à stands for the adverb suffix(ending)

friendly

lovely

elderly

deadly

The Wizard of Oz

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

cowardly lion

duty free 免稅

responsibility 責任感

Taxonomy

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

vertebrate

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate

invertebrate

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate

S.O.P = sequence of process

extinguisher 滅火器

prusten

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prusten

I heard a Fly buzz when I died

BY EMILY DICKINSON

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -

The Stillness in the Room

Was like the Stillness in the Air -

Between the Heaves of Storm -

The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -

And Breaths were gathering firm

For that last Onset - when the King

Be witnessed - in the Room -

I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away

What portion of me be

Assignable - and then it was

There interposed a Fly -

With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -

Between the light - and me -

And then the Windows failed - and then

I could not see to see –

Emily Dickinson

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

My Sister’s Keeper

wiki: (novel)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sister%27s_Keeper_(novel)

IMDb: (movie)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078588/

Am I my brother’s keeper

Old Testament The Genesis

Cain and Abel

Success is counted sweetest

BY EMILY DICKINSON

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne'er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host

Who took the Flag today

Can tell the definition

So clear of victory

As he defeated – dying –

On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph

Burst agonized and clear!

The Taming of the Shrew

Sparknotes: (novel)

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/

IMDb: (movie)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061407/

arch- à chief, first, rule

architecture

archangel

arch

an- à no

anarchy

anacusia

anacidity

Calculus

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus

Geometry

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi

Bologna! = Rubbish! = That’s rubbish! 亂講!

pepperoni

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperoni

Bologna

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna

Patristics

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patristics

She is going to take maternity leave for a week.

她請了一個星期的產假。

patriarch

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch

matriarchy

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy

Richard Cory

BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

wiki:

https://www.google.com.tw/#q=edward+arlington+robinson

figurative language

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_and_figurative_language

You are such a snob. 你很勢利眼。

fashion

definition:

a popular way of dressing during a particular time or among a particular group of people

trendy

definition:

liking or tending to like whatever is currently popular or fashionable : influenced by trends

Florence à百花之城

Florence Cathedral

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Cathedral

I resent you. 我討厭你。

What a nuisance! 好討厭喔!

spinster 老處女à spin the wheel

Virginia Woolf

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

Orlando 美麗佳人奧蘭朵

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography

sparknotes:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/orlando/

Charlotte Brontë

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB

Jane Eyre 簡愛

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre

sparknotes:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/

John Fowles

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowles

The French Lieutenant's Woman

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Lieutenant's_Woman

cliffsnotes:

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/the-french-lieutenants-woman/about-the-french-lieutenants-woman

Metafiction

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction

David à Michelangelo

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)

fragile

Frailty thy name is woman.

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/frailty-thy-name-woman

Hamlet:

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!—

Hamlet Act 1, scene 2, 142–146

To be, or not to be. That is a question.

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be

Sting – Fields of gold

youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awg4HjFLIH4

No man is an island

By John Donne

No man is an island, entire of itself

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main

if a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,

as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were

any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind

and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls

it tolls for thee.

http://blog.yam.com/aboutrossi/article/19711865

Ernest Hemingway

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

From Whom the Bell Tolls 戰地鐘聲

The Sun Also Rises 太陽依舊升起

A Farewell to Arms 戰地春夢

The Old Man and the Sea 老人與海

A Moveable Feast

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moveable_Feast

dic- à say, speak

dictation

dictionary

predict

male- à bad, badly

malefactor

malevolent

maleficent

promethean star 明日之星

Watch Movie

<<A Room with a View>> 1985

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091867/

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd1_zKPjlog

barren (adj.) /ˈberən/

definition:

having very few plants : not suitable for plants

roar (v.) /ˈroɚ/

definition:

1. a.     to make a long, loud sound
2. b.     to laugh loudly

frigid (adj.) /ˈfrɪʤəd/

definition:

very cold

degree (n.) /dɪˈgriː/

definition:

a unit for measuring temperature

“Traveling is a fool’s paradise.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

deafening (adj.) /ˈdɛfənɪŋ/

definition:

extremely loud

lethal (adj.) /ˈliːθəl/

definition:

causing or able to cause death

Lethal Weapon 致命武器

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093409/

Salome à step daughter of Herodias

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome

Dance of the Seven Veils

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Seven_Veils

Transcendentalism先驗論

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism

box office (n.)

definition:

an area in a theater where tickets are sold for a movie, play, etc.

HBO = Home Box Office

Herod 希律王

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great

Last Supper 最後的晚餐

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper

John the Baptist 受洗者約翰

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist

femme fatale

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale

請公假

10 decades = 100 years

Forecast

Definition:

to say that (something) will happen in the future : to predict (something, such as weather) after looking at the information that is available

Predict

Definition:

to say that (something) will or might happen in the future

monorail 輕軌鐵路

biennial à stands for years

I am expected. 我要生了。/ 我懷孕了。

Please see the attached file for your reference. 請看附加檔案。

Songs:

Just Give a Reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgEFfZOV9GQ

Dear Mr. President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6U7vvbDI6c

Sad Movies (Always Make me Cry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V_z5ElQOZI

The End of the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgcy-V6YIuI

Jackie Evancho – Danny Boy

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_jleJFR_M

A cappella à without musical instrument

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_cappella

Cathedral

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral

Goose bumps 雞皮疙瘩

Atheist無神論者 = people believe without god

Animal 獸性的

Amateur 業餘的

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” – Wilhelm tekel

Bureau 官僚

Bureaucracy 官僚主義

Democracy 民主主義

Theocracy 神權主義

Demon 惡魔

Demonstration 示範/示威

Demotion 降級

Promotion 促進/晉級

pro- = in favor of

de- = down/ away from

The Economist

“Taiwan students”                                     

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/politics-taiwan

Formosa News英語新聞

“Protesting students await responses to trade pact demands.”  

http://englishnews.ftv.com.tw/read.aspx?sno=8E110C06E64AC7AEDE67ECA6D41AAB44

James Madison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison

Checks and Balances

Legislature à make the law

Executive à enforce the law

Judiciary à interpret the law

protest 反對

protestant 反對者

Catholic 天主教徒

Christian 基督徒

Mary I of England (Bloody Mary)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England

Elizabeth I of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England

WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

America:

Congress 國會

the Senate 參議院

House of Representative 眾議院

Gone with the Wind 亂世佳人

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc

e- = out of

evict

evacuate

emerge

-meter

barometer

thermometer

hydrometer

dia- =through

diarrhea

diagnosis

diamond

man- àstands for hand

manicure

manipulate

manage

A Room with a View

movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd1_zKPjlog

The Catcher in the Rye

sparknotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/catcher/

manicure 指甲護理師

manipulate 操作/控制

A Literary Nightmare

A Literary Nightmare is a short story written by Mark Twain in 1876.

The story is about Twain's encounter with a virus-like jingle, and how it occupies his mind for several days until he manages to "infect" another person, thus removing the jingle from his mind. The story was also later published under the name "Punch, Brothers, Punch!"

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Literary_Nightmare

 Mark Twain

A Room with a View 窗外有藍天       E. M. Forster

Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2641/2641-h/2641-h.htm

piano tuner 調音師

Punch Bros, Punch

origin: http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/wheeler/wheeler.html

music: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/music/sm/smaudio/7603584.wav

lyrics: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/audiodir.html#7603584

Moon River

lyrics + music: http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/a/andywilliams244/moonriver295169.html

Augustus

Octavius

Julius Caesar

scope

telescope

periscope 潛望鏡

microscope

peripheral 電腦週邊設備

Bert and Ernie

attendant 空服員

protestant 抗議者

Protestant 新教徒  Catholic 舊教徒

applicant 應徵者

accountant 會計員

rhapsody in April = 人間四月天

The Bucket List一路玩到掛(遺願清單)

en

encourage

strengthen

deepen

enlarge

ad

disadvantage

advanced

advocate

dis

disease  at ease 自在/舒服

dislike

disable

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal Summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

詩的段落 stanza

I forgot my line. 我忘詞了

Stories of Months and Days(超連結)

Chapter I. January--The Month of Janus
Chapter II. February--The Month of Purification
Chapter III. March--The Month of Mars
Chapter IV. April--The Month of Venus
Chapter V. May--The Month of Maia
Chapter VI. June--The Month of Juno
Chapter VII. July--The Month of Julius Caesar
Chapter VIII. August--The Month of Augustus
Chapter IX. September--The Seventh Month
Chapter X. October--The Eighth Month
Chapter XI. November--The Ninth Month
Chapter XII. December--The Tenth Month

Chapter XIV. Sunday--The Day of the Sun
Chapter XV. Monday--The Day of the Moon
Chapter XVI. Tuesday--The Day of Tiu
Chapter XVII. Wednesday--The Day of Woden
Chapter XVIII. Thursday--The Day of Thor
Chapter XIX. Friday--The Day of Freya
Chapter XX. Saturday--The Day of Saturn