11/28 Notes

‧The Great Gatsby: 失落的一代 (Lost Generation)

‧God made Adam, and used his ribe to make a woman(=within a man).

‧Go, keeping and making money. (女人的手冊)

‧Myrtle: Venus favorite flower.

‧oral presentation:

→ pronunciation about “tourist”, “tourism”.

 

Contrast

‧fame: the state of being known for having or doing somethingimportant

‧infamous: well known for something bad; notorious

‧reputation: the general opinion that people have about someone or something

 

Phrase

‧Break my nose

 

Vocabulary

‧broader: left, e.g.: broader school寄宿學校

‧affair:  a situation or subject that is being dealt with or considered

‧carpediem 及時行樂 (Latin)

‧allusion

‧seren (義文): calm, peaceful, and untroubled; tranquil, e.g.: serendipity

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Words of a day

11/24

‧ lieutenant  [n.]

a.      A deputy or substitute acting for a superior

e.g.: Certainly a number of his lieutenants and cohorts have been captured in recent months.

‧deputy  [n.] 

a.      A person who is appointed to undertake the duties of a superior in the superior’s absence

e.g.: His deputy has been largely running the business for the past year.

‧ sergeant  [n.] 

a.      A rank of non-commissioned officer in the army or air force, above corporal and below staff sergeant.

e.g.: It is us, staff sergeants and sergeants, who don't want to take the time to train and mentor soldiers.

‧ naval  [adj.]

a.      Relating to a navy or navies

e.g.: I would like to study about the naval history between the Japanese and the Royal Navy.

‧intact  [adj.] 

a.      Not damaged or impaired in any way; complete

e.g.: The church was almost in ruins but its tower remained intact.

 

11/25

‧ impish  [adj.] 

a.      Inclined to do slightly naughty things for fun; mischievous

e.g.: But every minute, an impish sprite takes one ball back out, always extracting the lowest-numbered ball in the bucket.

‧ retard  [v.]

a. Famously, Forster accused the educational systems of the time of retarding the emotional development of schoolboys.

‧ pun  [n.]

a.      A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings

e.g.: Freeth adopted the nickname Free in punning allusion to his beliefs.

‧ exploit  [v.] 

a.      Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)

e.g.: 500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology.

‧stack  [v.] 

a.      Arrange (a number of things) in a pile, typically a neat one

e.g.: He stood up, beginning to stack the plates.

 

11/26

‧ amnesia  [n.] 

a.      A partial or total loss of memory

e.g.: They were suffering from amnesia.

‧ annihilate  [v.] 

a.      Destroy utterly; obliterate

e.g.: A simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all.

‧obliterate  [v.]

a.      Destroy utterly; wipe out

e.g.: The memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind.

‧ prolong  [v.] 

a.      Extend the duration of

e.g.: The latter is known to be due to the fact that hypocalcemia prolongs the duration of phase two of the action potential of cardiac muscle.

‧ probe  [v.]

a.      Explore or examine (something), especially with the hands or an instrument

e.g.: The surgeon will then view and probe the joint, looking directly through the scope or at pictures it sends to a video monitor.

11/27

‧ doom  [v.]

a.      Condemn to certain death or destruction

e.g.: Fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed.

‧ perpetual  [adj.]

a.      Never ending or changing

e.g.: Some labor under the delusion that Alaska is smitten with almost perpetual darkness in winter and never ending light in the summer.

‧serendipitous  [adj.]

a.      Occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way

e.g.: Her career was a collection of serendipitous and fortuitous events that entice one to believe she was fated to succeed.

‧ recur  [v.]

a.      Occur again periodically or repeatedly

e.g.: When the symptoms recurred, the doctor diagnosed something different.

‧ ineffable  [adj.] 

a. Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words

e.g.: If truth is ineffable, beyond words, we can't determine whether it can be intuited.

11/28

‧ resume  [v.] 

a.      Begin again or continue after a pause or interruption

e.g.: I then continued to resume the folding of various frocks and dresses that were mainly sewn by myself.

‧cortex  [n.] 

a.      The outer layer of the cerebrum (the cerebral cortex), composed of folded grey matter and playing an important role in consciousness.

e.g.: Parts of the thalamus, and the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex that are important in controlling mood, also connect to the hypothalamus.

‧ consolidate  [v.]

a.      Make (something) physically stronger or more solid

e.g.: The first phase of the project is to consolidate the outside walls.

‧ attentive  [adj.] 

a.      Paying close attention to something

e.g.: Ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers.

‧ retrieve  [v.]

a.      Get or bring (something) back from somewhere

e.g.: I was sent to retrieve the balls from his garden.