Note on Week 5

Fiction
The Tell-Tale Heart
A short story by Edgar Allen Poe which was told by a unnamed narrator who insist he is sane but suffering from a disease which causes "over-acuteness of the senses".


A Psalm of life
A poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




Vocabulary
Cassandra - The daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba who has power for prophecy that Apollo grant her.
forshadowing  預示；成為...的前兆
kinship  親屬關係
furies  復仇女神三姊妹
patron goddess  守護女神
presume  擅自做；假定
innocent  無罪的，清白的；天真的
mockery  嘲笑，嘲弄
hideous  醜陋的；可怕的；駭人聽聞的；令人厭惡的
dissemble  掩飾
mort  通知獵物已死的號角聲→死亡之意味

Note on Week 3

-Vocabulary-
nostagically  懷鄉地；懷舊地；念舊地
cab  計程車
fetch a cab=call a taxi
(↑紐約道地說法)
lagoon  水塘；瀉湖
bizarre  荒誕的；奇異的
意混淆之詞→bazarre  大市集
record  黑膠唱片
pervert
(n.)
怪胎；行為反常者
(vt.)
1.使走上邪道，使變壞；腐蝕
2.歪曲，曲解
3.誤用，濫用
4.使違反常情，使反常
physician;medical doctor  醫生
psycho-analytic society  心理分析學家
pupil  學徒，弟子；小學生，學生

encounter
→put into...

-Phrase-
go one's way 找到自己的出路

make a pass at someone
to flirt or suggested sexual activity with someone

make a pass at something
to fly over or close by something

-The Catcher in the Rye-

You follow me? Are you still with me?
→Are you listening to me?

CH.24(P.188)
"The mark of immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
「一個不成熟男子的標記，是他願意為某種原因英勇地死去；一個成熟男子的標記，是他為了某種原因謙卑地活著。」



Given Name   +   Middle Name   +   Last Name
         ↓                          ↓
  不可更改         為紀念某人或其他涵義

EX:愛倫坡→Edgar Allan Poe
Allan是養父的姓氏，但他並與養父相處不睦，所以再自稱時會縮寫成Edgar A. Poe