Aesop's Fables
*Aesop (伊索寓言)
*Fable (短篇虛構故事，人性化的非人角色)
Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, inprose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized , 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.
*Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fable scredited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources.
*anthropomorphized人格化; 賦與人性
*parable寓言
e.g. Jesus taught in parables .
*Prodigal Son à The Return of the Prodigal Son 浪子回頭
*The Wolf and the Crane 酸葡萄 (sour grapes)
*The Boy crying Wolf
*ass 愚蠢的
*stump 根部
*mumble 擬聲字 (嘴巴mm 咀嚼)
=onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow", "roar" or "chirp".
*savory 味道濃厚
*be contented with
*valued very highly by another 各花入各眼
*The same measures will not suit all circumstances. 自作自受
*The Ass was at his old tricks again. 故技重施
*Perseverance is sure than swiftness. 小心謹慎
*Misery loves company禍不單行
*Mother Goose rhymes(要會背)
*He failed to see any advantage. 看不出有任何好處
*a flock of (鳥、魚、羊、學生的單位)一群
*Beauty and the Beast Dance Scene -- YouTube
* 超連結 ↓
*What did Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater have?
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn't keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had another and didn't love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well.
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 that Peter Piper picked?
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Georgie Porgie, Puddin' and Pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry,
When the boys came out to play
Georgie Porgie ran away.
*看無聲筆記
每日單字 :
1.reptile (n)
any of various animals whose blood temperature changes with the outside temperature and whose bodies are covered by scales or plates (= hard material):
*Snakes, turtles, and crocodiles are all reptiles.
2.swamp (n)
an area of very wet, soft land
*Alligators live in these swamps.
3.convulsion (n)
shaking movement of the body that cannot be controlled, often caused by illness
*The syndrome brought on convulsions.
4.fume (v)
to be very angry, sometimes without expressing it
*Days after the argument, he was still fuming.
5.crookedly (adj.)
not forming a straight line; having many sharp bends
*She smiled crookedly at me, turned and left.
6.shutter (n)
a wooden or metal cover on the outside of a window
*They put wooden shutters on all the windows.
7.shabby (adj.)
looking untidy and in bad condition
*An old man in shabby clothes came to the door.
8.emerald (n)
a bright green stone used in jewelry
*She is wearing a ring set with emerald.
9.spinach (n)
vegetable with large, dark green leaves and a strong taste
*Either you eat your spinach or you go without ice-cream.
10.caterpillar (n)
a small, long animal with many legs that eats leaves
11.mustache (n)
a line of hair above the mouth
*The young man has grown a mustache.
12.adore (v)
to love someone and have a very good opinion of them
*Sarah adored her father.
13.catalogue (n)
a book with a list of all the goods that you can buy from a shop, or of all the books, paintings, etc that you can find in a place
*a clothing catalogue
14.knead (v)
to press and shape the mixture for making bread firmly and repeatedly with your hands
*The cook kneaded the dough.
15.sprout (v)
If a plant sprouts, or if it sprouts something, it begins to produce leaves, flowers, etc.
*The seeds I planted are just beginning to sprout.
16.radish (n)
a small, round, white or red vegetable with a slightly hot taste that you eat in salad
17.squeaky (n)
making short, high sounds
*a squeaky voice
18.tack (n)
to try to deal with a problem in a different way
*I've tried being nice to her and it doesn't work so I might take a different tack.
19.semicircle (n)
half a circle
*sit in a semicircle
20.deluxe (adj.)
luxurious and of very high quality
*a deluxe hotel
21.encyclopaedia (n)
a book or set of books containing many articles arranged in alphabetical order which deal either with the whole of human knowledge or with a particular part of it
*The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.
22.surgeon (n)
a doctor who does medical operations
*A surgeon removed the boy's brain tumor.
23.jaunty (adj.)
showing that you are happy and confident
*The happy children walked with jaunty steps.
24.recess (n)
a period of time in which an organized activity such as study or work is temporarily stopped
*After lunch, the kids have recess.
25.velvet (adj.)
a cloth with a soft, furry surface
*Our kitten has soft, velvet paws.
