Pilgrims: A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journey (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system. In the spiritual literature of Christianity, the concept of pilgrim and pilgrimage may refer to the experience of life in the world (considered as a period of exile) or to the inner path of the spiritual aspirant from a state of wretchedness to a state of beatitude.

Puritan: The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, including, but not limited to, English Calvinists. Puritanism in this sense was founded by John Calvin from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England.

Church of England: The Church of England is the officially established Christian Church in England and the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by Saint Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597.à 英國國教

Episcopal 聖公會

pro- in favor of

propaganda 宣傳

subversive 顛覆

oral literature 采風方式

new world à promise land

Puritan doctrine: 清教徒禁酒令 à Rip Van Winkle 裡有提到(小矮人釀酒)

election 神選來受苦的

predestined (God had chosen)

Mather Dynasty 一群寫宗教小冊的人

政治意味單字:

ratification 只有立法單位能同意政府

veto 總統可否決並重審

Eminent domain: Eminent domain (United States, the Philippines), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption (Hong Kong), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia), or expropriation (South Africa, Canada) is the power of a state or a national government to take private property for public use. However, it can be legislatively delegated by the state to municipalities, government subdivisions, or even private persons or corporations, when they are authorized to exercise the functions of public character.

boycott 抵制、杯葛

filibuster 用行政發言來干預程序

impeachment 彈劾

appropriation 撥款

referendum 公民投票

gerrymandering 不公正的劃分選區

lame duck 無能力的人或即將卸任的官員

red herring 轉移注意力的話

Edward Taylor: Edward Taylor was a colonial American poet, pastor and physician. He holds, in the opinion of many, the chief place of the most gifted of the Puritan poets. He wrote Meditation Eight.

Anne Bradstreet: Anne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.