★ Ori
✎ origin (n.)
⑴ A begining ; source 原始 ; 本源 ; 根源 。
⑵ Parentage 家系 ; 出身 。
➜ He is a Taiwan by origin. 他原籍台灣 。
⑶ Cause 原因 。
➜ Many origins can cause the fire.
★ Sappho (of Lesbos)
Sappho was born sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. Sappho was known as a Greek lyric poet and a lesbian which originates from the island Sappho was born － Lesbos. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.
★ Homor
Homor is best known as the author of the iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poetss. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
★ The Iliad
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning.The is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer. Along with the Odyssey, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the eighth century BC.
★ The Odyssey
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. Scholars believe it was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.
The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres or Proci, who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage.
★ Aphrodite
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. She is identified with the planet Venus. As with many ancient Greek deities, there is more than one story about her origins. According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus's genitals and threw them into the sea, and she arose from the sea foam (aphros). According to Homor's Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. According to Plato , these two origins were of entirely separate entities: Aphrodite Ourania and Aphrodite Pandemos.
★ Aphrodisiac
Aphrodisiac which pertains to Aphrodite who is the Greek goddess of love can increase sexual desire.
Helen of Troy
★ 羅馬數字
① 十進位
② 運用代碼
③ 逢4、9變異
1 ➜ I 50 ➜ L 100 ➜ C
5 ➜ V 500 ➜ D 1000 ➜ M
10 ➜ X
☞ Exercise
3 → III 4 → IV 8 → VIII 9 → IX 19 → XIV 99 → XIX
80 → LXXX 30 → XC 99 → XCIX 2015 → MMXV
✌ manipulate ( v.t.)
⑴ To operate or work skillfully by means of the hands, as tools. (用手)操作；運用(工具)。
➜ The magician manipulated the cards and the ace vanished.
⑵ To treat; influence artfully; control the action of, by skilful management. 處理；操縱；巧妙地處置。
➜ My brother is good at manipulating a computer.⑶ To falsify, as books in bookkeeping. 偽造;竄改(如簿記)。
➜ The accounter manipulated the accounts.
✌ subsequent ( adj.)
⑴ Following, or coming after, in time or order. 繼起的；隨後的。
⑵ Following as a result. 結果的。
✌ nostalgia ( n.)
⑴ Homesickness; the intense longing for one's own home or native land. 思鄉病；鄉愁。
⑵ Yearning for the return of past happier times or circumstances. 緬懷過去；懷舊。
✌ primitive ( adj.)
⑴ Pertaining to the beginning; original. 原始的；最初的。
⑵ Simple or crude; old-fashioned. 簡陋的；舊式的。
⑶ Serving as a source: used of a word from which another, called a derivative word, has come. 原字(非衍生字)的。
⑷ Savage; uncivilized. 野蠻的；未開化的。
⑸ Rudimentary. 【生物】初期的；發育未完全的。
✌ cuneiform
⑴ (n.) Cuneiform writing. 楔形文字。
⑵ (adj.) Having the form of a wedge, said of the arrowshaped characters of the ancient inscriptions of Assyria and Persia. 楔形(文字)的(指古代亞洲人、波斯人所用的箭頭形刻文)
