Tina Tang的部落格

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