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 Vocabularies& Phrases

     .ESL= English as second language

     .antonym←→symnonym

     .chairman/chairperson

     .synecdoche (n.)

         -- is a figure of speech in which a term is used in one of the following ways

     .praise (v.)

         --say something good for other person

     .memorial service 追思禮拜

     .curtsy (n.)

         -- a formal greeting made by a woman or girl in a dance or to an important person,

             by bending her knees with one foot in front of the other (女子行的)屈膝禮

     .sapphire (n.)

         -- a clear, bright blue precious stone 藍寶石

     .ruby (n.)

         -- a dark red precious stone 紅寶石

      .charity children

     .Eugenics

         -- the study of methods to improve the mental and physical characteristics of the human

             race by choosing who may become parents 優生學;人種改良學

 

 Hunger--Starve--Famine

     .Hunger

         -- the state of not having enough food to eat, especially when this causes

              illness or death 飢餓;饑荒

     .Starve

         -- to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make somebody

             suffer or die in this way (使)挨餓,餓死

     .Famine

         -- a lack of food during a long period of time in a region 饑荒

 

 Prefix 

     .euph--

         meaning: good

         1.euphonium

         2. euphuism

         3. euphlogy

 

 Essay

     1. explain furthermore in detail

     2. provide example

     3.contrast

 

 Lady Windermere's Fan

      Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by

      Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James Theatre in  London.

      The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes

      the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage.The story concerns Lady Windermere

      who discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman. She confronts

      her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to her birthday ball. Angered

      by her husband's unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere leaves her husband for another lover. After

      discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade

     her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising

     position. She sacrifices herself and her reputation in order to save Lady Windermere's marriage as

     Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere’s mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time

     the play is set.. Mrs. Erlynne was originated by Marion Terry.The play's Broadway première on 5

     February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the first Broadway performance for stage and screen

     actress Julia Arthur, who played Lady Windermere.

 

 Movie--A Good Man 美麗誘惑

 

 Others

     .蕭伯納、王爾德、葉慈→愛爾蘭人

     .故事高潮迭起圖

 

     . Stories and poems →for extremely intelligent children of all age

     .She is an angel of woman諺語

 

 Song-- She 's always a woman to me

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

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