The Bucket List 一路玩到掛

1. 1.      Witness something truly majestic
2. 2.      Help complete stranger for a common good
3. 3.      Laugh till I cry
4. 4.      Drive a Shelby Mustang

1. 5.      Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world
2. 6.      Get a tattoo
3. 7.      Sky diving
4. 8.      Visit Stonehenge

2. 9.      Spend a week at the Louvre

2. 10.  See Rome
3. 11.  Dinner at La Cherie d’Or
4. 12.  See the Pyramids
5. 13.  Get back in touch(previously “hunt the big cat”)
6. 14.  Visit Taj Mahal, India

2. 15.  Hong Kong
3. 16.  Victoria Falls
4. 17.  Serengeti
5. 18.  Ride the Great Wall of China

羅浮宮三寶

1. 1.      蒙娜麗莎的微笑

2. 2.      雙翼勝利女神像

2. 3.      維納斯女神像

New 7 Wonders of the World

1. 1.      Christ Redeemer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. 2.      Great Wall of China: China
3. 3.      Machu Picchu: Peru
4. 4.      Petra: Jordan
5. 5.      Pyramid at Chichén Itzá: Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
6. 6.      Roman Coloseum: Rome, Italy
7. 7.      Taj Mahal: Agra, India

his getting long with the tooth 馬齒徒增

平方公里à square(sq.) kilometer

立方公里à cube kilometer

4的平方à four to the second power

fraction 真分數

infraction 假分數

9又4分之3月台ànine and three to quarter

perimeter 周邊設備à around

periscope潛望鏡

perigee 最低點

periodontal 牙周的

predator 掠食者

dormant volcano 死火山/休火山

astr- à star

astronaut

astronomy

astrology

spine 脊椎骨

spinal cord 脊髓

Moon River à songs

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

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me

(Moon river, wider than a mile)
(I'm crossin' you in style someday)
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after that same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me

(Moon river, moon river)

lunatic 瘋子

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏夜之夢

文學報告格式

*字型à Times New Roman

Obama Speech and The Hark The Herald Angels Sing

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

heal = cure 治療

brother keeper

the first family 第一家庭

beneficiary àgood

day in and day out 日以繼夜地

stable 馬廄

redeem 救贖

redeeming 救贖的

troops 軍隊

reconcile 一致/和諧/使和解

1. 1.      charity
2. 2.      compassion
3. 3.      goodwill

The Hark The Herald

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!"

gasoline(美) = petroleum(英) à石油

pump the gasoline 加油

The American President 白宮夜未眠

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NI5sE3KeY

lobby 遊說者

unemployment 失業率

SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome嚴重急性呼吸系統綜合症

Al Gore’s Concession Speech

“Not under man but under God and law. That’s the ruling principle of American freedom, the source of our democratic liberties.”

The Devil’s Advocate 魔鬼代言人

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxD1qZnJzw

The Departed 神鬼無間

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWvwjZ0eDc

mend some fences

alienation 異化

loneliness

miscommunication

misconnection

“You got a horn on your head.” 你外遇了。

horny 色欲攻心

pornographic 色情小說

William Wordsworth  I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed--and gazed--but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

understatement 輕描淡寫

Mother Goose  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

I got goose pimples. 我起雞皮疙瘩了。

bad queen in Snow White

hay fever 花粉熱

floral 似花的

Watch the movie

Bee Season

Storyline:

A wife and mother begins a downward emotional spiral, as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11 year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling bee champion.

11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...

Reflection:

I really like the movie; there are many deep meanings in its metaphors. Actually, at first, I didn’t understood what the movie want to talk about; I just think the girl, Eliza, was really amazing, she has a special ability. I like the technique of expression in this movie, for example, the way how Eliza found the answer of the word she wants, when she answered “origami” the paper bird fly and remain her correct word. Eliza born and live in an unique family, her father, Saul, was a professor who study at religion, it make the behavior of Eliza’s family more mysterious. It makes me feel curious of the vocabulary’s world.

omen 死亡的預兆

中古歐洲視紅髮為罪惡和禁忌

基督教聖典中對於紅髮的不喜愛，來自於兩個方面，一個是背叛耶穌的猶大，猶大擁有標準的紅髮，讓紅頭髮的人之後被視為背叛者。另外一個著名的紅髮神話人物是麗麗絲，猶太神話中的女妖魔，據說他是亞當的第一任妻子，因為忌妒亞當，所以離開了伊殿園，上帝才因此用亞當的肋骨創造出夏娃，確認這一位妻子會是柔順的妻子。

麗麗絲離開伊殿園後，來到紅海，成了女妖，上帝派遣三位天使前來將麗麗絲帶回伊殿園，麗麗絲卻不肯與指者回歸，於是上帝懲罰麗麗絲，麗麗絲因而成為蠱惑者的代名詞。傳說中，上帝懲罰麗麗絲，讓他每天承受生孩子的苦痛，卻無法與孩子公同生活，於是麗麗絲轉而偷取別人的孩子，誘惑男人再加以殺害報復，這樣的傳說，與之後希臘的拉蜜雅女妖傳說結合後，就成了最典型的女吸血鬼傳說。女妖化身為美麗的女子誘惑男人，殺死他們，再偷取嬰孩。

拉斐爾前派畫家羅塞蒂之麗麗絲

Catch Me If You Can 神鬼交鋒

mourn 哀悼

viable 可實施的/能存活的

commotion 騷動

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

mathematics (n.)

mathematic (a.)

dormitory 宿舍

dexterity 靈巧

dazzle (v.) (使)眼花/目眩

entrapment 誘捕/圈套

synchronize 對錶

malevolent 有惡意的

intention 意圖/目的

benevolent 好心腸的

malicious gossip 惡意的謠言

malignant tumor 惡性腫瘤

muffin top

Anemias 貧血

coliseum = colosseum 羅馬競技場

henpecked 怕老婆的人

peripheral 電腦周邊設備

cheat on me

=lie to me

=deceive me

William Shakespeare  Sigh No More

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.

    Men were deceivers ever,

One foot in sea, and one on shore,

    To one thing constant never.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

    And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

    Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no moe

    Of dumps so dull and heavy.

The fraud of men was ever so

    Since summer first was leafy.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

    And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

    Into hey, nonny, nonny.

美國大學à fail to develop critical thinking, reasoning, and writing skills.

magnifying glass 放大鏡

graduate student 研究生

undergraduate student 大學生

mortician = undertaker 殯葬業者

Six Feet Under 六呎風雲

A Streetcar Named Desire 慾望街車

“Hey! Stella!”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8

“I’ll never listen to you when you are morbid.”

Sir Thomas Malory  Le Morte D’Arthur Summary

hetrosexual 異性戀

homosexual 同性戀

Elvis Presley

Memphis Tennessee   

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

It’s Now or Never   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmjdxxAnsB4

I Can’t Help but Falling with You   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhMopq5r6I

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

Love Me Tender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-bd3aDMGA

24 hours a day = 7 days a week 全年無休

fin- àend, ended, finished

finite

finish

confine 限制在某空間

ambi-, amphi- àboth

ambiguity 模稜兩可

ambidextrous 雙受靈巧的

amphibian 水陸兩用的

You look occupied today.

prolific writer 多產的作家

protagonist 主角

in favor of

proponent

opponent

puberty 青春期

No Man is an Island – John Donne

No Man is an Island
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.

bomborn 糖果(法文)

omniscient 全能的

euphemism à something good

eulogy 頌詞/讚頌

eugenics 優生學

Eucharist 聖餐

telepathy à far

television

telephone

telegraph (打)電報

wire tape 絕緣膠帶

separate à apart, move away from

secede 脫離/退出

secern 區別/辨別

selective

-itis

bronchitis 支氣管炎

gastritis 胃炎

golfitis 高爾夫球迷

separate à away from

select

segregate

segment

2000年以前 Celtic language

7^th The Angles and the Saxons

1066A.D.

àThe king and the aristocrat à French

à The ordinary à Anglo-Saxon

solar à stands for sun

Luna à stands for moon

Mediterranean à in the middle

generator à birth, begin

gene

generation

genealogy

坎特伯里  The Canterbury Tales坎特伯里故事集

(goy idea from Baccaccio Decameron) 薄伽丘《十日談》

Chaucer 喬叟

volgate 通俗本

a.欽定版聖經 James I

b.出版社 William Caxton à the first English printing

c.16^th~17^th 編字典à Samuel Johnson à lexicographer àDictionary of English language

bungalow 印地安帳篷

kindergarten 幼稚園

dialect 方言

dictionary à to say, to tell a word

That’s totally rubbish. 亂講/ 胡說

petroleum(British) à (American)

The House of commons 下議會

dismiss解散

1.Epic poem  à  Beowulf 貝武夫

2.Bedazzled à  神鬼願望  

   Bewitched  à  神仙家庭

3.Descartes: “Cogito ergo sum.”(拉丁文)

                    “I think therefore I am.”(英文)

4.Hamlet: “To be or not to be. That is a question.”

5.Party alteration  政黨輪替

6.I’m interested in

   I feel interested

           sth. interesting

obstacle à negative              enable à put into

   obesity                                           encourage

obscure                                          enlarge

obscene                                          empower

assure VS. ensure