New thing
1.summary=in short
e.g. What follows is a brief summary of the process.
2.Choosing to be different (isolated)
3.戰地鐘聲
4.leisureville
5.carefree=without cares
e.g. She had made their childhood so joyous and carefree.
6.child-free=without children
e.g. Being child - free is a decision I have never regretted.
7.pleasantville奠定
e.g. That led to a substantial role in the movie Pleasantville.
8.Brave New World美麗新世界
e.g. The Robotic Economy —— Brave New World or a Return to Slavery?
9.Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 反烏托邦
10.No man is an island
No Man Is An Island ——John Donn
No man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were:
any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind,
and therefore,
never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.
生字筆記
1.clod(v.)凝結,阻塞
e.g. A clod of silt can easily be crumbled in the fingers.
2.claustrophobic幽閉恐懼症
e.g. They lived in an unhealthily claustrophobic atmosphere.
3.set...apart from分開
e.g. The chair was set apart from the others for the special guest.
4.urban homesteaders都市自耕農(佔有宅地的人。分得土地的定居移民。
5.altitude海拔高度
e.g. The plane flew at an altitude of 20, 000 feet.
6.infer推斷
e.g. People usually infer an unknown fact from a known fact.
7.ironical冷嘲的，反語的；諷刺的。令人啼笑皆非的。
e.g. It's ironical that the weakest student in mathematics was elected class treasurer
8.allegorical寓言的
e.g. Yet they are also meant to be allegorical, to stand for something.
9.totalitarian極權主義
e.g. The principle of hierarchy does not equate to totalitarian terror.
10.Utopias烏托邦<=>dystopia反烏托邦
e.g. All Utopias that have hitherto been constructed are intolerably dull.
11.chines=chine isa cut of meat that includes part or all of the backbone of the animal
e.g. Fifthly, the textbooks with the Chines characteristics of technological economics are becoming less and less.
12.chits=a slang wordwhich means girls
e.g. I hate affected , niminy - piminy chits!
13.chopped=means come suddenly or accidentally
e.g. Don't ask me why they have chopped and changed so much.
14.chute=a narrow channel
e.g. You can release the chute with either hand, but it is easier to do it with the left.
15.circumspection=careful observation of events and circumstances
e.g. The quality of being circumspection is essential for a secretary.
16.clambered=to climb somewhere with difficulty,usually using your hands and your feet
e.g. They clambered up the stone walls of a steeply terraced olive grove.
17.clime=climate
e.g. Plants from a cold clime travel best in winter.
18.clinched=clenched
e.g. Hibernian clinched the First Division title when they beat Hamilton 2-0.
19.close chair=a sedan chair,which is an covered chair which has room for one person.The sedan chair is carried on two poles by two men,one in front and one behind
e.g. Old Grannis had drawn his chair close to the wall.
20.clown=peasant or person who lives off the land
e.g. He was laughing, the clown of the twosome.
21.coalheaver=loaded coal onto ships using a spade
22.coal-whippers=men who worked at docks using machines to load coal onto ships
23.cobweb=the net which a spider makes for catching insects
e.g. The fabric, cut on the bias, hangs as light as a cobweb off a woman's body.
24.coddling=to treat someone too kindly or protect them too much
e.g. The warders' union has been denouncing the government for coddling prisoners.
25.coil=noise or fuss or disturbance
e.g. The heated gas is piped through a coil surrounded by water.
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