1. tall tale-浮誇的故事
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some stories such as these are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!"
2. eu- good
eulogy- a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died. 讚辭
eugenics- is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population. 優生學
3. Narcotics - The term narcotic originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties. 販毒
4.Ann Lee (善於表現壓抑的情感)
5. When I was one-and-twenty
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
one-and-twenty是德文中的20
A.E.Housman
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -
The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset - when the King
Be witnessed - in the Room -
I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable - and then it was
There interposed a Fly -
With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - and me -
And then the Windows failed - and then
I could not see to see -
蒼蠅只會停在行將就木的人身上，因為他的血液流動速度變慢，而人在死亡時最後一個失去的感官是聽覺，因此聽到蒼蠅聲音代表他要死了。
7. chairman / chairperson
英國以前議會沒有椅子坐，只有主席有位置坐，後來便引申成為掌握權力的人
Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism.
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