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Solicitor 謝絕推銷

florence florist flora  fla:花 植物

 

I resent you./What a nuisance.(英)

spinster老處女(工革紡紗員) spin the wheel 紡織

 

pension民宿

upset v. p.p.

swap/switch/exchange

wonders 哼哈語(取代 I think)

synonymous

delicateness n.~ fragile *fragment破碎片段  Frailty thy name is women.(Hamlet)

delicate adj. indecisiveness

 

brooding 擬聲字

slanders

sting-fields of gold

barley 麥田

 

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Study Questions

No man is an island.沒有人是一座孤島

For whom the bell tolls喪鐘為誰響起

moveable feast 流動的思念

 

Virginia Woolf “Orlando”

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Tutor師徒制(英國)

Jane Eyre is a governess(陪讀老師)in a Victorian novel

 

French Lieutenant’s Women 法國中尉女人

By John Fowles

 

1.      being

a person

-We are social beings as well as individuals.

2. credible

able to be believed or trusted

-There was no credible evidence against him.

3. criteria

a standard that is used for judging something or for making a decision about something

- Everyone whose qualifications meet our criteria will be considered.

4. dismiss

to refuse to accept that something might be true or important

-The minister dismissed claims that he had accepted bribes.

5. envy

the unhappy feeling that you have when you want very much to do something that someone else does or to have something that they have

-He was sure that other drivers looked at him with envy.

6. essential

completely necessary

-In a large organization, good internal communication is essential.

7. galaxy

an extremely large group of stars and planets

-Edwin Hubble discovered that distant galaxies are moving away from us.

8. launch

to send a missile, space vehicle, satellite, or other object into the air or into space

-The agency will launch a new weather satellite next month.

9. mainstream

considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people

-These children have all been excluded from mainstream schools.

10. orbit

ASTRONOMY the path that is taken by an object moving around a larger object in space

- Space stations are designed to remain in orbit for years.

11. account.

an arrangement in which a bank looks after your money. You can deposit (=put in) or withdraw (=take out) money when you need to

-There was only £50 in his bank account.

12. fabric

the basic structure of a society or organization

-Small shops help to maintain the fabric of neighbourhood life.

13.fundamental

relating to the basic nature or character of something

-Some people see this as a fundamental flaw in his argument.

14.literally

used for showing that what you are saying is really true and is not just an impressive way of describing something

-Now there are literally thousands of companies using our software.

15. probe

an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident, made by an official group or by a newspaper, television programme etc

-a full-scale government probe into allegations of police corruption

16. prompt

to cause something to happen or be done

-This revelation prompted the mayor's resignation.

17. punch

to hit someone or something with your fist (=closed hand), usually as hard as you can

-Two men punched him, knocking him to the ground.

18. scepticism

doubts that someone has about something that other people think is true or right

-She treated this statement with a healthy degree of scepticism.

19.vast

extremely large

- Our dog eats a vast amount of food each day.

20. worthy

deserving something

- He had shown himself to be worthy of their respect.

21. fragment

a small piece of a larger object that has broken, often into a lot of pieces

-The vase hit the wall and shattered into fragments.

22. nuisance.

something that is annoying and is a continuing problem

-The bugs in the software were a nuisance.

23. brooding

looking as if you are thinking and worrying about something

-the brooding expression in his dark eyes

24. toll

the total amount of harm or damage

-the mounting toll of failed businesses

25. slander

something bad that you say about someone that is not true and may damage their reputation

-What you said about Barbara is cruel and vicious slander.