New things:
1.Bull Markets and Bear Markets:A bull market is a rising market. In a bull market, investors are positive.A bear market is a declining market. It tends to begin with a sharp drop in stock prices across the board. There is usually an eye in the storm, during which stock prices increase. But the storm returns, of course, and the bear market falls and falls and falls.在證券交易中，bear的意思是“賣空者，抛售股票或期貨希望造成價格下跌的人”；bull 的意思是“買進股票等待價格上漲以圖谋利者；哄抬證券價格的人”。
2. Twelve days of Christmas.:is an English Christmas carol that enumerates in the manner of a cumulative song a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.
3.I'll ride with you(BBC-Sydney cafe:Australians say to Muslims:"I'll ride with you.")
http://www.thenewslens.com/post/103483/
4. O Come All Ye Faithful by Chris Tomlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JSF9Uz20PY
5.Hewlett-Packard:Hewlett-Packard Company or HP (styled as 【hp】) is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides hardware, software and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
6.Post-it note(or sticky note): is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces. A unique low-tack pressure-sensitive adhesive allows the notes to be easily attached, removed, and even re-posted elsewhere without leaving residue.
7.Scotch Tape:is a brand name used for certain pressure-sensitive tapes manufactured by 3M as part of the company's Scotch brand
8.A Room with a View:is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.
生字筆記
1.cumulative:increasing by successive addition
e.g. The benefits are cumulative.
2.bene-:stands for good, ex.beneficial
e.g. The beneficial effects of a temperate climate
3.multinational:involving or operating in several nations or nationalities
e.g. The US troops would be part of a multinational force.
4.abstract:a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance;a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
e.g. His painting went through both representational and abstract periods.
5.threshold:the starting point for a new state or experience;the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
e.g. The consensus has clearly shifted in favour of raising the nuclear threshold.
6.throne:the chair of state for a monarch, bishop;the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions
e.g. Edward VIII had done the unthinkable and abdicated the throne.
7.throng:a large gathering of people
e.g. An official pushed through the throng.
8.thrust:the force used in pushing;a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument;the act of applying force to propel something
e.g. He reached the garden gate and thrust his way through it.
9.tile:a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
e.g. Vinyl can be laid in sheet or tile form.
10.tilt:a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances;a slight but noticeable partiality
e.g. He continued to urge the Conservative Party to tilt rightwards.
11.tin:a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
e.g. The tea was sweetened with a hoarded tin of condensed milk.
12.toad:any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
e.g. He grabbed into the ooze and came up clutching a large toad.
13.toil:productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
e.g. The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.
14.torch:a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
e.g. I was perished. No jacket, no torch, wet through, exhausted.
15.torment:unbearable physical pain;extreme mental distress
e.g. Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
16.torrent:a heavy rain;a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid);an overwhelming number or amount
e.g. They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
17.torture:extreme mental distress
e.g. The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture.
18.toxic:of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison
e.g. Nuclear weapons plants across the country are heavily contaminated with toxic wastes.
19.traitor:someone who betrays his country by committing treason
e.g. They called him a traitor to his Afrikaner people.
20.tramp:a disreputable vagrant;a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex;a heavy footfall
e.g. The tramp produced a stump of candle from his deep pockets.
21.trample:the sound of heavy treading or stomping
e.g. Please don't trample on the azaleas.
22.transparent:transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
e.g. We are now striving hard to establish a transparent parliamentary democracy.
23.treasury:the funds of a government or institution or individual;the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues
e.g. The Treasury has long been predicting an upturn in consumer spending.
24.trench:a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth;a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
e.g. They recaptured their trench.
25.tribute:something given or done as an expression of esteem;payment by one nation for protection by another
e.g. The song is a tribute to Roy Orbison.
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