*改考卷 midterm
*While You Were Sleeping <<< 連結
(聖誕歌曲blog裡的movie)
*mistletoe 寄生蟹
*It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Andy Williams
(節奏的方式表現重音)
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(棉花糖) for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
*英文裡沒有中文所謂的書名號
*Little Red Riding Hood 小紅帽
*Hooding ceremony 正官儀式
*hood 帽子
*host
(n.)主人 e.g. Yesterday we were hosts to a few friends.
(v.)主持 e.g. It remains unknown which country will host the international tennis tournament.
*報佳音: go caroling
* "Puss in Boots"
"Master Cat; or, The Booted Cat" (early French: Le Maître Chat, ou Le Chat Botté), commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots", is a French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.
*imaginary (adj.) 想像中的; 虛構的; 幻想的
not real, but produced from pictures or ideas in your mind
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.
In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy tale romance" (though not all fairy tales end happily). Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any farfetched story or tall tale; it's used especially of any story that not only isn't true, but couldn't possibly be true.
*Ogre:
Famous examples of ogres in folklore include the ogre in "Puss in Boots" and the ogre in "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"; and in fiction, Shrek and Fiona from "Shrek". Other characters sometimes described as ogres include the title character from "Bluebeard", the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast", Grendel from "Beowulf", Polyphemus the Cyclops from Homer's Odyssey, the cyclops in "Sinbad the Sailor", and the oni of Japanese folklore.
*fable:
Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.
*parable:
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
e.g. The Return of the Prodigal Son 浪子回頭
*allegory:
Allegory is a literary device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. Allegory has been used widely throughout the histories of all forms of art; a major reason for this is its immense power to illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are easily digestible and tangible to its viewers, readers, or listeners. An allegory conveys its hidden message through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric; a rhetorical allegory is a demonstrative form of representation conveying meaning other than the words that are spoken.
e.g. The Faerie Queene-->暗示對伊利莎白的崇敬
*paradox literature-->promoting critical thinking
e.g. Othello(四大悲劇之一): There are old fond paradoxes to make fools laughing in the al(酒)ehouse.
*gingerale 薑汁汽水
*arle 啤酒
*Kermit 芝麻街裡的青蛙
*nursery rhyme --> songs for children
*lullaby搖籃曲
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin'fences for so long now.
Oh, you're a hard one,
but I know that you've got your reasons.
These things that are pleasin' you
can hurt you somehow.
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy!
She'll beat you, if she's able.
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
Now it seems to me some fine things
have been laid upon your table,
but you only want the ones that you can't get.
每日單字 :
1.intimacy(n)
the state of being intimate
*An intimacy grew up between us.
2.fart( n, v)
to expel intestinal gas from the anus
*See fart defined for English-language learners
3.barbarity(n)
barbarous cruelty
*The barbarity of the attack was horrifying.
4.compulsion(n)
an act of compelling : the state of being compelled
*John will take his medicine only by compulsion.
5.rebellion(n)
opposition to one in authority or dominance
*The peasants rose in rebellion against the corrupt officials.
6.sedition(n)
incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority
*They were charged with sedition.
7.disorderliness(n)
engaged in conduct offensive to public order
charged with being drunk and disorderly
8.disobedience(n)
refusal or neglect to obey
9.amenable(a)
liable to be brought to account
*the data is amenable to analysis
10.accessory(n)
a person not actually or constructively present but contributing as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense —called also accessory before the fact
*A radio is an accessory to a car.
11.slip(v)
to move with a smooth sliding motion
*The ship slipped through the water.
12.inanity(n)
lack of substance
quickly realized that her suggestion was an inanity and withdrew it
13.venereal(a)
of or relating to sexual pleasure or indulgence
venereal infections
14.dissimulate(v)
to hide under a false appearance
smiled to dissimulate her urgency
15.trickery(n)
the practice of crafty underhanded ingenuity to deceive or cheat
Delia resorted to trickery—even loading up the fishing equipment—to induce her dog into the car for his vet appointment
16.sorcery(n)
the use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits especially for divining
At that time most people believed in sorcery and witchcraft.
17.oblation(n)
the act of making a religious offering; specifically capitalized : the act of offering the eucharistic elements to God
18.quarrelsome(a)
apt or disposed to quarrel in an often petty manner
*His brothers were greedy and quarrelsome.
19.assailant(n)
to attack violently with blows or words
*The movie was assailed by critics.
20.inasmuch(adv.)
in the degree that
*Inasmuch as the debtor has gone bankrupt, I will abandon the claim.
21.bishop(n)
one having spiritual or ecclesiastical supervision
*the Bishop of New York
22.stride(v)
to stand astride
*He strode out of the room.
23.masculine(a)
having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man
*He likes to show off his masculine physique.
24.suture(n)
a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body; also : a stitch made with a suture
*He has a lot of suture.
25.kindred(n)
a group of related individuals
*His kindred are still living in Ireland.
