kiwiguo的部落格

1.mono=>1 (autogamy,automony)

2.bi=>2 (bigamy)

   e.g. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.

3.tri=>3 (trigonometry)

   e.g. We may determine the height of a mountain by trigonometry.

4.qua=>4 (quatrain)

5.penta=>5 (pentagon)

   e.g. The Pentagon will give preference to companies which do business electronically.

6.oct=>8 (octopus)

   e.g. He experienced nausea after eating octopus.

7.nov=>11 (november,renovation)

   e.g. Troops were sent to the islands to restore order last November.

8.metry,meter:丈量的意思

   e.g. Only a third of these households thought it reasonable to meter water.

9.mor=>死亡(morgue,mortian,morgage,mortify)

   e.g. I have often seen drowned men laid out at the morgue.

New knowledges

    1.Tetragrammaton=>耶和華

    2.Augustus奧古斯都=>August: was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor

    3.Jesus,Jacob,Joseph=>JJ家族

    4.Egyptian hieroglyphics象形文字

    5.Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships (傾國傾城)and burnt the topless tower of IIium?

    6. Sweet Helen,make me immortal with a kiss. (Christopher Marlowe<<Doctor Faustus>>)

    7. Leda and teh swan=>Helen,Clytemnestra,Castor and Pollux

    8.Achilles' Heel=致命傷

    9.Judgement of Paris:Athena(glory in the war),Aphrodite(most beautiful woman),Hera(wealth)

      Athena

 Aphrodite

 Hera

   羅馬數字

     1=i or I    2=ii or II   4=IV   9=IX   14=XIV    19=XIX   40=XL  49=IL  50=L   99=XCIX  

     100= C  400=CD  500=D  900=CM   1000=M