The Tale of Peter Rabbit 

* At the beginning of the story,......

* lane 較大的街
switch the lane轉換車道 

* Florence佛羅倫斯
flor-: 花卉 e.g. flora

* vir/ver-: truth真理
e.g. virtue 美德. virtual 事實上的

* The Aeneid is the story of Aeneas.

* epic
-oral epic
-literal epic 

* (The Divine Comedy 但丁神曲裡有個女角叫Beatrice)

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321.

The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three canticas (Ital. pl. cantiche)—Inferno (Hell地獄), Purgatorio (Purgatory煉獄), and Paradiso (Paradise天國)—each consisting of 33 cantos (Ital. pl. canti). An initial canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. It is generally accepted, however, that the first two cantos serve as a unitary prologue to the entire epic, and the opening two cantos of each cantica serve as prologues to each of the three cantiche.

The poem is written in the first person, and tells of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven. Beatrice was a Florentine woman whom he had met in childhood and admired from afar in the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love tradition, which is highlighted in Dante's earlier work La Vita Nuova.

*radish (n.)白菜頭.蕪菁 

*Don't get into mischief. 

*parsley (n.)西洋芹→不可數名詞,複數不加S

*跪趴著
on one’s hands and knees
on your belly

*ly 結尾的字當形容詞: friendly. lovely. deadly

*I feel/become/am puzzled. 我覺得困惑

每周單字 :

1.incur(v)

to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself

*I incurred his dislike from that day on.

 

2.fetter(n)

a chain or shackle for the feet

*He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.

 

3.pretext(n)

a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs

*John left early under the pretext of illness.

 

4.playful(adv)

full of play : frolicsome, sportive

*a playful kitten

 

5.bathrobe(n)

a loose often absorbent robe worn before and after bathing or as a dressing gown

*She put on her new bathrobe after showering.

 

6.essence(n)

the permanent as contrasted with the accidental element of being

*The essence of his long speech was that we must all work harder.

 

7.impulse(n)

to give an impulse to

*My uncle bought the house on an impulse.

 

8.unbind(v)

to remove a band from : free from fastenings

*The girl started to unbind her braided hair.

 

9.pardon(n)

the excusing of an offense without exacting a penalty

*I beg your pardon. I suppose I should have knocked.

 

10.scaffold(n)

a temporary or movable platform for workers (as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground

*He died on the scaffold.

 

11.recline(v)

to cause or permit to incline backwards

*The tired girl reclined on the couch.

 

12.agitate(v)

obsolete : to give motion to

*His fiery speech agitated the crowd.

 

13.stain(v)

to suffuse with color

*Blood stained the blanket.

 

14.bullfight(n)

a spectacle in which men ceremonially fight with and in Hispanic tradition kill bulls in an arena for public entertainment

*There is a bullfight.

 

15.vehement(a)

marked by forceful energy

*They are vehement in their praises of the new system.

 

16.molest(v)

to annoy, disturb, or persecute especially with hostile intent or injurious effect

*He was sent to jail for molesting children.

 

17.shimmer(v)

to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light

*The road shimmered in the heat.

 

18.splendor(n)

great brightness or luster

*We admired the splendor of the mountain scenery.

 

19.virtuous(a)

having or exhibiting virtue

*a virtuous woman

 

20.hawk(n)

any of numerous diurnal birds of prey belonging to a suborder (Falcones of the order Falconiformes) and including all the smaller members of this group

He's gone hawking.

 

21.propagate(v)

to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction

*Trees propagate themselves by seeds.

 

22.covenant(n)

a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement

*I covenanted to pay $5000 a year to rebuild the college.

 

23.perilous(a)

full of or involving peril

*a perilous journey across the mountains

 

24.slumber(n)

to be in a torpid, slothful, or negligent state

*He awoke from a deep slumber.

 

25.vanquish(v)

to overcome in battle : subdue completely

*Government troops have vanquished the rebels.