2013.10.08 word (week5-2)

1.oppugn (v.)
to answer back
 ▪I don’t want to oppugn your view.
  
2.overabound (v.)
too many/much
 ▪Stones overabound in the river.
 
3.reacquire (v.)
to own it again
 ▪How can I reacquire my lost tape?

4.reactivate (v.)
to make something start working again, or to start a process again
 ▪The factory will reactivate at the beginning of next year.

5.readjust (v.)
to get used to a new situation, job or way of life
 ▪Soldiers struggled to readjust to life outside the army .

2013.10.07 word (week5-1)

1.tribalize (v.)
 to divide into lots of tribes
 ▪Topography tribalized the Indians.

2.exacerbate (v.)
to make a bad situation worse
 ▪The situation is exacerbated by your wrong behavior.

3.exact (v.)
to demand and get something from someone by using threats, force
 ▪The kidnappers exacted ransoms for their hostages .

4.exaggerate (v.)
to make something seem better, more important than it really is
 ▪He exaggerated the importance of the event .

5.exalt (v.)
to put someone or something into a high rank or position
 ▪He was exalted to the position of president .

2013.10.04 word (week4-5)

1.knack (n.)
a special skill or ability that you usually gain by practice
 ▪There is a knack to starting our lawn mower .

2.knackered (adj.)
extremely tired
 ▪I have been rushing about all day and I am knackered.

3.knapsack (n.)
a bag that you carry on your shoulders
 ▪The moment he received the order , the soldier packed his knapsack .

4.knave (n.)
a dishonest boy or man
 ▪Better be a fool than a knave.

5.knead (v.)
to press a mixture of flour and water many times with your hands
 ▪The cook kneaded the dough.

2013.10.03 note: Charlotte’s Web (Week4)

Note

1.Winnie the Pooh(toy fantasy)

*theme(what children will be afraid of)
1) borrowing/sharing
2)darkness
    3)bad habits
    4)cope with encounter

*tigger(bounce): the most timid  one

2.神鬼戰士:

*民主就是一種暴民
*put your thoughts in one's shoes(設身處地為別人想)





3.fantasy(a genre of fiction)
*defined in three aspects: plot/theme/setting
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction.
*for example:
 The Lord of the Rings
 Beowulf
The Chronicles of Narnia
Journey to the west





4.celtic mythology
Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, the religion of the Iron Age Celts.^[1] Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celts in close contact with Ancient Rome, such as the Gauls and Celtiberians, their mythology did not survive the Roman Empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and the loss of their Celtic languages. It is mostly through contemporary Roman and Christian sources that their mythology has been preserved. The Celtic peoples who maintained either their political or linguistic identities (such as the Gaels, Picts, and Brittonic tribes of Great Britain and Ireland) left vestigial remnants of their ancestral mythologies, put into written form during the Middle Ages.
*King Arthur

 
 
 










































King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians

 

 *knights of the round table

The Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights congregate. As its name suggests, it has no head, implying that everyone who sits there has equal status.
*for example:
1)Lancolot

Sir Lancelot was one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. He most typically features as King Arthur's greatest champion whose love affair with Queen Guinevere brings about the end of Arthur's kingdom.
2)Gawain



*Holy Grail
→聖戰奇兵

*courtly love :
chivalric/nobility/erotic desire/ no touch/ respect





5. Don Quixote
*author: Cervantes
*非理性追求
*characters
1)Don Quixote:irrational/imaginative illusion
2)Sancho Panza: rational/ reality
*significance:
mocking the chivalry





6. first knight (film)

7.camlot/ 100 acre woods: imagine palce(setting) ( what fantasy requires)






8. C.S Lewis(The Chronicles of Narnia) & Ursala Le Guin(Tales from Earthsea)→奇幻作家





9.Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year

10. charlotte's web
*author:E.B White(人道主義者)
*adjectives Charlotte uses to decribe Wilbur
some pig/ radiant/ terrific/ humble
*(p.184)
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
(p.164)
Why did you do all this for me?

2013.10.03 word (week4-4)

1.jaundice (v.)
to be envious
 ▪His social position jaundiced his view of things.

2.jaunt (n.)
a short journey for pleasure
 ▪I took a little jaunt last week.

3.jaunty (adj.)
 confident and cheerful
 ▪She has a jaunty air.

4.jaw (v.)
to talk
 ▪I cannot spend all day jawing with you.

5.jeer (v.)
to laugh unkindly at someone to show that you strongly disapprove of them
 ▪He jeered at my mistakes .

2013.10.02 word (week4-3)

1. perfunctory  (a.)done quickly and without showing that you care or have much interest: ▪She asked a few perfunctory questions about my family and then ended the conversation.

 2. acquiesce (v.)to accept or agree to something, often without really wanting to: ▪The bank acquiesced to an extension of the loan.

 3. nemesis (n.)
Someone's nemesis is a person or thing that is very difficult for them to defeat.
(a cause of) punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided:
 ▪The tax increases proved to be the president's political nemesis at the following election.

 4. overwhelm ( v.)to be too much to deal with: ▪The number of refugees overwhelmed the relief agencies in the area.

 5. pertinent (a.)relating directly to the subject being considered; relevant:
▪a pertinent question

2013.10.01 word (week4-2)

1. hyperbole (n.)a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound much bigger, better, smaller, worse, more unusual, etc., than they are: ▪Although he’s not given to hyperbole, Ron says we are light-years ahead of our time

 2 genre (n.)
a particular subject or style of literature, art, or music: the genre of landscape painting

 3. notation (n.)
the system of written symbols used esp. in mathematics

 4. connotation  (n.)a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning, or something suggested by an object or situation: ▪"Resolute" means stubborn, but with a more positive connotation.

 5. alliteration (n.)
the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words, as in "live and learn"