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筆記

詩歌欣賞

A Psalm of Life

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

   Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

   And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

   And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

   Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

   Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

   Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

   And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

   Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

   In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

   Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

   Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,— act in the living Present!

   Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

   We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

   Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

   Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

   Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

   With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

   Learn to labor and to wait.

²  主角

Ø   男 hero

Ø   女 heroine

²  paper soap 紙肥皂

²  tabloid 八卦小報

²  紡紗有關

Ø   spin 紡紗的輪

Ø   spinster 老小姐(因為嫁不出去的老小姐大多以紡織女工維生)

²  推銷

Ø   solicitor 律師

Ø   solicitation 推銷

²  Hotto 校訓

²  CP: credit performance

²  SOP: standard of Process

²  onomatopoeia 擬聲詞

ü   To love is to act. -Victor Hugo 敦愛篤行

ü   天哪！(文雅的用法，意義 =  OMG)

n   Good gracious!

n   My goodness!

ü   How very vexing? 困惑

ü   What a nuisance. 討厭

ü   Thank you for talking it so well. 謝謝你大人有大量

ü   Share a flat with other girls. 與其他女孩同住一套公寓(英式)

ü   I’ll write you very often. 我們保持聯絡

ü   How kind of you to remind me. 如此善良的你提醒了我

單字

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charge

noun

an amount of money that you have to pay, especially when you visit a place or when someone does something for you

charge for, free of charge, at no extra charge

foe

noun

a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another

foam, focal, fodder

formidable

adjective

very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with

-able: inclined to be, likely to be done

acceptable, readable, adaptable

frailty

noun

the condition of having a weak character or weak moral standards

-ty: condition of being

security, safety, loyalty

gaze

verb

to look at someone or something for a long time, for example because they are attractive or interesting, or because you are thinking of something else

gawk, gavotte, gazelle

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grunt

noun

to make a short low sound in your throat and nose at the same time

groyne, grudge, grueling

hold your ground

phrase

to not move when someone attacks you or is going to attack you

fight off, fend off, stand up to

majestic

adjective

big, beautiful, or impressive in a calm and serious way

-ic, -ical: relating to, resembling

scenic, geometric, geographical

menacing

adjective

intended to threaten or frighten someone

-ing: having the quality of

disturbing, surprising, encouraging

nostrils

noun

one of the two holes at the end of your nose

nosh, nostalgia, nostrum

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retreat

verb

to avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation, especially by moving away from it

re-: again, back, backward

regenerate, refurbish, retype

sideways

noun

to, towards, or from one side

sidelong, sidereal, sidesaddle

snarl

verb

if an animal such as a dog or a lion snarls, it makes an angry sound in its throat and shows its teeth

smudge, smuggler, smutty

spine-chilling

adjective

a spine-chilling story, book, film etc is very frightening

abridged, autobiographical, biographical

come clean

phrase

to tell the truth about something that you have kept secret

admit, grant, concede

despair

noun

the feeling that a situation is so bad that nothing you can do will change it

de-: reduce, away, down, remove

decelerate, dethrone, debug

fury

adjective

-y: full of

clumsy, tricky, hairy

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growl

verb

if an animal growls, it makes a frightening or unfriendly low noise

growl, groyne, grubby

in the same boat

phrase

in the same difficult or unpleasant situation

pressed, oppressed, deadlocked

intently

adjective

concentrating hard on something

-ly: used with many adjectives to make adverbs meaning in a particular way

quietly, quickly, angrily

outlast

verb

to last longer, or to continue to be successful for longer, than someone or something else

outnumber, outrageous, outset

petrifying

adjective

to frighten someone so much that they cannot move or decide what to do

-ing: having the quality of

disturbing, surprising, encouraging

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prick up (one’s) ears

phrase

to start listening to something very carefully because it sounds interesting

hear out, listen, hear from

rusty

noun

a rusty metal object is covered in rust

-y: full of

clumsy, tricky, hairy

tame

adjective

a tame animal has been trained to stay calm when people are near it, because it is used to being with them

tandem, tangential, tangerine

twitch

verb

to make a sudden short movement

twitter, twixt, twine

melodiously

adverb

beautiful to listen to

-ous/-ious: a. having the quality of

famous, advantageous, mysterious