1. American Dream: The land of Opportunity?
The New York Times -
Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?
Related Movie
Related Song
Somewhere Out There- An American Tail (美國鼠譚)
2. ann- year
anniversary- a day that commemorates or celebrates a past event that occurred on the same date of the year as the initial event.
annual fee - Any fee that is charged on an yearly basis.
annual meeting - a meeting held yearly for reviewing developments of the year just past, electing new officers, and voting on major organizational policies.
announce (並非year的意思) - make known.
3. gene- origin
genesis - origin, creation
摩西五書 Torah - The Torah, or the Pentateuch, is the central reference of the religious Judaic tradition. It has a range of meanings.
genes - a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
genre - a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
4. Systems of Human Body
There are eight systems in the human body. Each system relies on the other to keep the body functioning. The systems of the body includes the circulatory, immune, skeletal, excretory, muscular, endocrine, digestive, nervous and respiratory.
SARS- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Chronic- (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
Synchronize- cause to occur or operate at the same time or rate.
5. cir- 循環
- Theseus. More strange than true: I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 1835
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, 1840
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 1845
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy; 1850
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
e.g.
- Soft like a brick.
- Hard as putty.
- A fire station burns down.
- The marriage counselor files for divorce.
- Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman.
- In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and the audience knows she is not.
- The Titanic was promoted as being 100% unsinkable; but, in 1912 the ship sank on its maiden voyage.
- At a ceremony celebrating the rehabilitation of seals after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, at an average cost of $80,000 per seal, two seals were released back into the wild only to be eaten within a minute by a killer whale.
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