2013.10.31 note:Miss Potter (week8)

Note

1.sermon: a long speech said by a priest in sunday serves
→A sermon is an oration by a prophet or member of the clergy. Sermons address a Biblical, theological, religious, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law or behavior within both past and present contexts. Elements of preaching include exposition, exhortation and practical application.

2.onomotoepoetic
An onomatopoeia  is a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow", "roar" or "chirp". Onomatopoeias are not the same across all languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; hence the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese.

3.William Blake















*THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
→praising creator
*Songs of innocent

*To see a world in a grain of sand  (曾被引用在古墓奇兵,Lura Craft爸爸寫給她的信)

To see a world in a grain of sand  一沙一世界 
And a heaven in a wild flower,  一花一天堂
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand 掌中握無限And eternity in an hour.  剎那現永恆

→指人們應該用心體會身邊的細微事物，即能從中發現樂趣。

原意指：
從一粒細微的沙粒，可以窺見宇宙的浩瀚；
從一朵平凡的花朵，可以發現美妙的天堂。
4.Jerry Maquire(film)

*quotation
Look, I don't have all the answer. To be honest, in life, I failed as often as I succeeded.
But I love my wife, I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

5.Success is Counted Sweetest -- Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
As he defeated--dying--
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!  

*Summary
The speaker says that “those who ne’er succeed” place the highest value on success. (They “count” it “sweetest”.) To understand the value of a nectar, the speaker says, one must feel “sorest need.” She says that the members of the victorious army (“the purple Host / Who took the flag today”) are not able to define victory as well as the defeated, dying man who hears from a distance the music of the victors.   

6.Charlotte's Web

 












*After all, what’s a life, anyway?  We’re born, we live a little while, we die.  A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies.  By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that. (E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web, p. 164.)

→lift up my life a trifle:讓我的生命得以起了一點漣漪

*Wilbur says Charlotte is the brilliant, beautiful and loyal friend.

7.Stuart Little:一家之鼠

8.Katherine Anne Porter

*Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.^[1] Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.










9. frying pot

10.When You Taught Me How To Dance -- Miss Potter

When you taught me how to dance
Years ago with misty eyes
Every step and silent glance
Every move a sweet surprise

 

Someone must have taught you well
To beguile and to entrance
For that night you cast your spell
And you taught me how to dance

 

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Word

1.sensational:色煽腥

[more sensational; most sensational] 1) : causing very great excitement or interest with shocking details
▪ a particularly sensational trial/crime ▪ sensational headlines ▪ sensational news stories

2) : very excellent or great
▪ a sensational performance/idea ▪ a sensational (new) talent

3) informal : very attractive
▪ She looked sensational in her new dress.

*sensationally(adv.)
▪ The books sold sensationally well.

2.leftover(n.):廚餘