It is a bell。伊莎貝爾

Fiction 3: Alice Munro - Boys and Girls

Keep your friend close and your enemy closer —from The Godfather

* The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Puzo and Coppola. 

Roman Fever:  a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the magazine Liberty in 1934, and was later included in Wharton's last short-story collection, The World Over.

The protagonists are Grace Ansley and Alida Slade, two middle-aged American women who are visiting Rome with their daughters, Barbara Ansley and Jenny Slade. The elder women grew up in Manhattan, New York, and were friends from childhood. A youthful and romantic rivalry led Mrs. Slade to nurture feelings of jealousy and hatred against Mrs. Ansley.  In the opening pages of the story, the two women compare their daughters and reflect on each other's lives. Eventually, Mrs. Slade reveals a secret about a letter written to Mrs. Ansley on a visit to Rome many years ago. The letter was purportedly from Mrs. Slade's fiancé, Delphin, inviting Mrs. Ansley to a rendezvous at the Colosseum. In fact, Mrs. Slade herself had written the letter, in an attempt to get Mrs. Ansley out of the way of the engagement by disappointing her with Delphin's absence (and, it is implied, to get Mrs. Ansley sick with Roman Fever). Mrs. Ansley is upset at this revelation, but reveals that she was not left alone at the Colosseum—she responded to the letter, and Delphin arrived to meet her. Mrs. Slade eventually states that Mrs. Ansley ought not to feel sorry for her, because "I had Delphin for twenty-five years" while Mrs. Ansley had "nothing but a letter he didn't write." Mrs. Ansley responds, in the last sentence of the story, "I had Barbara."

dia-: 徹底 ; 完全

For example: diagnostic, diagnosis

Baltimore Ravens 巴爾的摩烏鴉隊

The team's name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven—as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died and was buried there in 1849.

* The Raven is a narrative poem. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk and classical references.

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: It was the first major-press short-story collection by American writer Raymond Carver. Described by contemporary critics as a foundational text of Minimalist fiction, its stories offered an incise and influential account of segregation and disenchantment in mid-century American suburbia.

短篇小說、電影名用quotation mark

英語的由來: 

English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects and was brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from what is now called north west Germany and the Netherlands. Middle English differed from Old English because of two invasions, which occurred during the Middle Ages. The first invasion was by people who spoke North Germanic languages. They conquered and colonised parts of Britain during the 8th and 9th centuries AD. The second invasion was by the Normans of the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and eventually developed an English form of this, called Anglo-Norman. 

英倫三島:   清代官員薛福成《白雷登海口避暑記》：「英倫四面環海，水氣和而得中，無嚴寒亦無盛暑。」顯見在清朝時，便已有「英倫」此一稱謂。至於「三島」這一詞的具體含義及出處來源，至今仍有爭議，目前普遍較被認同的看法有:

1. 指英國在大不列顛島本土上的三部分—英格蘭(England)、威爾士(Wales)、蘇格蘭(Scotland)

2.  指英格蘭、蘇格蘭及愛爾蘭（三者英文皆以「Land」結尾）。它將大不列顛島看作是僅以峽灣分    界、幾乎相連的英格蘭、蘇格蘭二島，並加上愛爾蘭島，構成三個島；而把威爾斯只視為南島英格蘭之一部分

3.  指英國位於不列顛群島的全部領土—大不列顛島為一島，愛爾蘭島為一島，並將曼島等小島合稱一島

4.  指三個英國皇家屬地—澤西島(Jersey)、根西島(Guersey)及曼島(Isle of Man)，後來被拿來象徵性地指稱英國。

John Gardner: an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is perhaps most noted for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.

The Art of Fiction(criticism), Gilgamesh(translation),Grendel

 John Gardner

 Grendel: It is a retelling of part of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.

Beowulf: an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines. It is possibly the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature.

有確切地點時用at作為介係詞，跟地點的大小無關

For example:  I study at  Harveard.  

committ suicide→自殺是種罪刑

Lord of the Flies (蒼蠅王) : a 1954 dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good.

Lord of the Flies

The Catcher in the Rye (麥田捕手): a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. A controversial novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.

The Catcher in the Rye

Basilica: the word was originally used to describe an open, Roman, public court building, usually located adjacent to the forum of a Roman town. By extension it was applied to Christian buildings of the same form and continues to be used in an architectural sense to describe those buildings with a central nave and aisles. Later, the term came to refer specifically to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rights by the Pope. 

basilica

Spanish steps: a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top.

Spanish steps

Piazza: a city square in Italy, Malta, along the Dalmatian coast and in surrounding regions.

piazza

Pantheon 萬神廟

pa→all

the→god

Pantheon is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD) and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD. It is one of the best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda".

Pantheon

coloseum: an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and stone, it is the largest amphitheatre ever built and is considered one of the greatest works of architecture and engineering.

coloseum

engage 訂婚

Memento mori 人終將一死

Memento mori is the medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. It is related to the ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") and related literature. Memento mori has been an important part of ascetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character, by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and turning the attention towards the immortality of the soul and the afterlife.

mor-: death

For example: morgue, mortify, mortician, morgage

man-: hand

For example: manipulative manicure

plot v. 羅織罪名