1. About Speech:
(1)
What is that?
What is that for?
What do we care?
→Eg: How to be Healthy?
*define the ‘Healthy’ first
*給個有趣的論點: be happy
(2)內容重要、態度要大方、口齒要清晰
(3)演講(formal)
→Don’t say ‘Oh! My gosh!’
(4)結束時的結語:
That’s all for my presentation.
Thanks for listening!
Thanks for attention.
→不可以用 “That’s it.”, “That’s all.”
(5)若中途打噴嚏→Sorry. (X)
Excuse me. (O)
(6)Wear your smile all the time.
(7)Time and tune.(沒有重音的地方不要停太久。)
(8)Don’t repeat yourself.
2. 服貿
(1)人不輕狂枉少年
(2)最大的敵人是明天更好的自己
(3)protest(n.)抗議者/(v.)抗議
(4)democracy 民主
*demo-:down
→demonstration 示威遊行/ demotion降等(*promotion升等)/ democrat民主主義者
*-cracy: govern 治理
→bureaucracy官僚政治/theocracy神權政治/ autocracy專制政體
(5)atheist無神論者
(1) finding→幫助別人找到自己；幫助自己找到自己
(2) WWⅡ後，規定各國不能製造飛機→造車 (eg: BMW)
(3) 片尾: Over the Rainbow.→追夢的人
(4) binoculars雙筒望遠鏡/dared 試膽大會/single out 點名/emblem(logo)標誌/deliver to傳送;運送
(5) 西方人取名字→多從聖經或是歷代君王的名字
(6) 電影還是電影，大人不一定會救小孩。/大人訂定的規則自己不遵守。
(7) Words:
*-ium:框起來的範圍
→stadium, aquarium, Colosseum
*nervous(a.)/nerve(n.)
→Don’t get on my nerve!
*manufacture(*man-: hand)
→manual record/ manipulate/ manicure
*se-: apart from
→separate/selection/secluded/ segregate(*integrate整合)
* hermit隱士
→hermitic/hermitage
(8)V.→N.
lock→locker置物櫃
cook→cooker飯鍋
open→a letter opener拆信刀
(9)prep school(權貴子弟念的學校，多為私立)
*prep→preparation
(10)Avalon→英國民間傳奇故事
*Arthurian legend的其中之一個故事
(11)The Pulitzer Prize (*Forrester won)
(12)pitcher捕手丘/shoot fouls罰球/foul language髒話/court 球場(方形)→eg: basketball court, tennis court
(13)Claire→校長千金
→“The key to a woman’s heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.”_ William Forrester
(14)Professor Crawford
→“Bitterly disappointed teachers can be either very effective, or very dangerous.”_ William Forrester
(15)The Raven_ Edgar Allen Poe
→此詩訴說著美女香消玉殞
→Poe的作品影響法國/迷幻式寫作/*高更受其影響深遠
→*The Blind Side攻其不備 (隊伍名稱: Baltimore Ravens)
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