Ø John Donne
John Donne was an English poet and
a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent
representative of the metaphysical poets.
His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love
poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires
and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness
of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style
is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and
dislocations.
- No Man is an island
AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ;
Men reckon what it did, and meant ;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
—Whose soul is sense—cannot admit
Of absence, 'cause it doth remove
The thing which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assurèd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two ;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run ;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
Mourn → to feel extremely sad
because someone has died, and to express this in public
Ø Ernest Hemingway
Ernest
Miller Hemingway was an American
novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and
understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his
life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway
produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story
collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels,
four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published
posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
Ø For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published
in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the
International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a
dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of
Segovia. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The
Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Farewell to Arms
Rebellion → an attempt to remove a
government or leader by force
Ø Grotesque statue
The word grotesque, originally a noun from
Italian grottesco , literally "of a cave", from Italian grotta (see
grotto). The original meaning was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient
Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the
15th century. The word first was used of paintings found on the walls of
basements of Roman ruins that were called at that time Le Grotte (The Grottoes)
due to their appearance.
Ø 3D 產業：dangerous dirty difficult
known
as the 3Ds, is an American neologism derived from an Asian concept, and refers
to certain kinds of labor often performed by unionized blue-collar workers. Typically,
any task, regardless of industry, can qualify as a 3D job. These jobs can bring higher wages due to a shortage of
willing qualified individuals and in many world regions are filled by
migrant workers looking for higher wages
- bull’s eye → The small central circle on a target. (正中紅心)
Ø Syllable
morph-： form
metamorphosis → a major change that makes someone or something
very different
author-：a writer (作者)
authority → someone who is considered
an expert in a particular subject
con-：together
conspiracy
→
a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or
illegal, especially in politics
※conspiracy
= plot
Plot as noun → a
series of related events that make up the main story in a book, film etc. A
second, less important story in the same book or film is called a subplot (情節)
Plot as verb → a
secret plan (密謀)
Pre-；pri：beginning
Premier → best,
largest, or most important
Sym-：with；together
Symmetrical
→
balanced; the same on both sides
For example：The front of the church is completely symmetrical.
- video
- defend vs offender
defend → to protect someone or something from attack
offender → someone who has committed a crime
→ sentence (v.) to death
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