Extra knowledge
People in other countries will add the receipt of the gift when giving out Christmas gifts, so if the person that receive the gift does't like the gift, he or she can changed it
Skit drama → 情境劇
skit 是situation 的簡稱
Statement and Politicians
statement → 政治家（正面的）
politicians → 政客（負面的）
March, parade and demonstration
march → to move along steadily usually with a rhythmic stride and in step with others （帶有軍事意味）For example, military march
parade → a public celebration of a special day or event that usually includes many people and groups moving down a street by marching or riding in cars or on special vehicles (called floats)（歡樂一點的遊行）
demonstration → an event in which people gather together in order to show that they support or oppose something or someone（示威遊行）
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
A farewell to Arms(戰地春夢)
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Farewell to Arms.
The old man and the sea(老人與海)
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.
In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
PROTEST
protest → 抗議
protestant 1. 小寫 抗議者
2. 大寫 新教徒
protestant <=> contestant(參加者)
WASP
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group believed to control disproportionate social, political, and financial power in the United States. It describes a group whose family wealth, education, status, and elite connections allow them a degree of opportunity held by few others.
The Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, also referred to as the Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Orthodoxy, is the second largest Christian Church in the world,with an estimated 225–300 million adherents.
Cathedral
A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of adiocese, conference, or episcopate. The counterpart term for such a church in German is Dom from Latin domus ecclesiae ordomus episcopalis; also Italian Duomo, Dutch Domkerk and cognates in many other European languages. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and some Lutheran and Methodist churches. Church buildings embodying the functions of a cathedral first appear in Italy, Gaul, Spain and North Africa in the 4th century, but cathedrals did not become universal within the Western Catholic Church until the 12th century, by which time they had developed architectural forms, institutional structures and legal identities distinct from parish churches, monastic churches and episcopal residences.
Juvenile court → 青少年法庭
Juvenile 青春
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
The fountain of youth
The Fountain of YouthFountain of Youth is a spring that supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters.
It has appeared in Indiana Jones before
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas.\
Abraham Lincoln lived in Springfield, Illinois
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose.
他發明了剖腹產，故剖腹產的英文是caesarean section (c-section)
Merry-go-round開心地旋轉 ＝ 旋轉木馬 = carousel
T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a British, American-born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
Vocabulary and word
er, or, ist, ian, ant → suffix for people's profession, for example, physician, applicant, flight attendant, accountant
icon → 聖像
op,ob → 負面字, for example, opponent(反對) <=> proponent(支持)