The Metamorphosis (變形記)

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.

 

Mock – laugh

Mockery

something that makes a system, organization etc seem stupid or useless

mockery of: The Jones trial was a mockery of justice.

mockingbird

a small white and grey North American bird that copies the songs of other birds

mocking

showing that you think someone or something is stupid

His tone was coldly mocking.

Are you mocking at me?

 

John Donne

John Donne

John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ dun) (22 January 1572[1] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets.

 

No Man is an Island

No man is an island, entire of itself

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main

if a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,

as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were

any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind

and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls

it tolls for thee.

 

-- John Donne

 

「沒有人能自全，沒有人是孤島，每人都是大陸的一片，要為本土應卯。那便是一塊土地，那便是一方海角，那便是一座莊園，不論是你的，還是朋友的，一旦海水沖走，歐洲就要變小。任何人的死亡，都是我的減少，做為人類的一員，我與生靈共老。喪鍾在為誰敲，我本茫然不曉，不為幽明永隔，它正為你哀掉。」

節錄自：http://blog.yam.com/aboutrossi/article/19711865　

 

Venerate（對人類最高敬意）

to respect or worship someone or something

 

diminish
to become less

The intensity of the sound diminished gradually.

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
As virtuous men pass mildly away,

   And whisper to their souls to go,

Whilst some of their sad friends do say

   The breath goes now, and some say, No:

 

So let us melt, and make no noise,

   No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;

'Twere profanation of our joys

   To tell the laity our love.

 

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,

   Men reckon what it did, and meant;

But trepidation of the spheres,

   Though greater far, is innocent.

 

Dull sublunary lovers' love

   (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit

Absence, because it doth remove

   Those things which elemented it.

 

But we by a love so much refined,

   That our selves know not what it is,

Inter-assured of the mind,

   Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

 

Our two souls therefore, which are one,

   Though I must go, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion,

   Like gold to airy thinness beat.

 

If they be two, they are two so

   As stiff twin compasses are two;

Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show

   To move, but doth, if the other do.

 

And though it in the center sit,

   Yet when the other far doth roam,

It leans and hearkens after it,

   And grows erect, as that comes home.

 

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,

   Like th' other foot, obliquely run;

Thy firmness makes my circle just,

   And makes me end where I begun.

 

skyfall m poem scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqoSZgh7q8　

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCjnCHvpLiM　

"Though much is taken, much abides; and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

 

James Bond and The Queen London 2012 Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AS-dCdYZbo　

 

hemo – blood

haemoglobin

a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body

haemophilia

a serious illness that prevents your blood from clotting (=becoming thick) when it should, for example when you cut yourself

haemorrhage

an occasion when blood flows out of an injured organ inside someone’s body, rather than out of their body through a cut in the skin

 

uri – 尿

urinate

to get rid of urine from your body

urinary

relating to urine (=liquid waste) or to the tubes or organs through which it leaves a person’s or animal’s body

urine

liquid waste from a person’s or animal’s body

 

Pre- before, earlier than

Predict  VERB

to say what you think will happen in the future

preface NOUN

an introduction to a book or a speech

prehistoric ADJECTIVE

relating to the period of time before history was first written down

 

Con- with, together

Combine VERB

Contact VERB

Context NOUN

the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it

 

3D

Dangerous, dirty, difficult