→具爭議性的議題
→In the history of American architecture and the arts, the American Renaissance was the period ca 1876–1917 characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism.
→原：海港城市，現在：已被砂石堆積
→第一個對廣東通商的港口
→曾發生”燒死女巫”的事件(*多是無依無靠的女性成為scapegoat)
→The house of seven gables (Hawthorne’s house)
→Witch House
→Tercentenary memorial
(*innocence/ indifference)
(*ter-:三個圍繞在一起的區塊)
→號稱美國的雅典
§New Orleans (French Market)
→sea food/ doughnut/Jazz
→密西西比河的出海口
→法國最後一個王朝 House of Bourbon
→Old North Church北教堂
→Jamestown (取自英王James VI and I的名字)
→Virginia (出產過八位總統)
→Fader Flag
→南北戰爭打出第一砲的地方
→西班牙城堡/北美第一個永久城市
→ “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both” (讀書的重要性)
§Thomas Wolfe <Look Homeward, Angel望山天使>
→A major American novelist of the early 20th century.He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and mores of the period, albeit filtered through Wolfe's sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective.
→The Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens is an antebellum plantation located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
§Words:
1. tautology滔滔不絕的說
→Definition: the unnecessary and usually unintentional use of two words to express one meaning
2. incongruity不協調
→Definition: the fact that something is incongruous
3. hysteria 歇斯底里
→Definition: excitement or emotion that is uncontrollable
→e.g. Her thin shoulders were shaking convulsively in hysteria .
4. fabulous
→Definition: very good/ very large in amount or size/ not real ; told about in a story
→e.g. The museum has a fabulous collection of jewels .
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