9/26 Notes

‧Why we need to have freshmen English?

→Actually, freshmen English teach you how to manage and learn your strategy, understand more about English.

‧How do teachers choose a English text book?

→They will check the book cover and the publish time.

Contrast

‧telescope(單筒望遠鏡)

‧binoculars(雙筒望遠鏡)

Phrase

‧你太過分了→you’ve gone too over.

Prefix

‧con-：with, together, e.g.:combine contact 

‧se-：apart from, e.g.: sequence, select, seclusion

Root

‧ver, vir: Vergil, Virgil, veritas

*Could you verify this wallet is yours?

*Could you provide the verification of your credit hours you’ve taken at Cambridge?

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Words of a day

 9/22

‧security(n.)

a.      Secure condition or feeling

b.      Thing that guards or guarantees

c.       Safety against espionage, theft, etc.

d.      Organization for ensuring this

e.      Thing deposited as a guarantee of an undertaking or loan, to be forfeited in case of default

f.        Document as evidence of a loan, certificate of stock, bonds, etc.

 

‧mint(n.)

a.      Aromatic herb used in cooking

b.      Peppermint

c.       Peppermint sweet

d.      Establishment where money is coined

e.      colloq. Vast sum ( making a mint )

 

‧solemn(adj.)

a.      serious and dignified

b.      formal

c.       awe-inspiring

d.      (of a person) serious or cheerless in manner

e.      Grave, sober

 

‧editorial(n.)

a.      Article giving a newspaper’s views on a current topic

 

‧epigram(n.)

a.      Short poem with a witty ending

b.      Pointed saying

 9/23

‧curiosity(n.)

a.      Eager desire to know; inquisitiveness

b.      Strange, rare, etc. object

 

‧contour(n.)

a.      Outline

b.      Line on a map joining points of equal altitude

 

‧barn(n.)

a.      Large farm building for storing grain etc.

 

‧jut(v.)

a.      Protrude, project

 

‧perpetual(adj.)

a.      Lasting for ever or indefinitely

b.      Continuous, uninterrupted

c.       Colloq. Frequent

 9/24

‧resemblance(n.)

a.      Likeness or similarity

 

‧gull(n.)

a.      Long-winged web-footed sea bird

 

‧wingless(adj.)

a.      No wing

 

‧colossal(adj.)

a.      extremely large

 

‧factual(adj.)

a.      based on or concerned with fact

 9/25

‧imitation(n.)

a.      imitating or being imitated

b.      copy

c.       counterfeit

 

‧spanking(adj.)

a.      brisk

b.      colloq. Striking; excellent

 

‧beard(n.)

a.      facial hair on the chin etc.

b.      similar tuft etc. on an animal

 

‧raw(adj.)

a.      uncooked

b.      in the natural state; not processed or manufactured

c.       inexperience, untrained

d.      stripped of skin; with the flesh exposed, unhealed

e.      sensitive to the touch from being so exposed

f.        ( of the atmosphere, day, etc.)cold and damp

g.      Crude in artistic quality; lacking finish

h.      ( of the edge of cloth) without hem or selvage

 

‧marble(n.)

a.      Crystalline limestone capable of taking a polish, used in sculpture and architecture

b.      Anything of marble

c.       Anything like marble in hardness, coldness

d.      Small, esp. glass, ball as a toy

e.      (Slang )one’s mental faculties

f.        Collection of sculptures

 9/26

‧eyesore(n.)

a.      Ugly thing

 

‧courtesy(n.)

a.      Courteous behavior or act

 

‧wistful(adj.)

a.      Yearning, mournfully expectant or wishful

 

‧turbulent(adj.)

a.      Disturbed; in commotion

b.      Varying irregularly

c.       Restless; riotous