2013-12-24 18:49:22Susan

西概筆記第五週

1. Character  
(1) (
人的)品質;性格;(事物的)性質
(2)人物,角色
(3)名聲

2. Cassandra 
  (1) 
Paris’s sister

  (2) the princess of Troy

  (3) Apollo’s wife

3. Cerberus 三頭犬,守冥府門口

4. Sisyphuswas punished by being compelled to roll a huge boulder up a hill, to

watch it to roll back down

5. Tantaluscooked his son, and then suffering from hungry, thirsty and dread forever

6. Tartarusa name, mean “underworld”

7. Charon 冥河渡者

8. Chiron 半人馬,常為英雄的家庭教師
9. The Orenstein is a trilogy.

    (1) Atreus (Agamemnons father) killed his brother.

    (2) Agamemnons cousin (Aegisthus) roped his wife, Clytemnestra, and killed

 him when he came back to his kingdom.

    (3) Agamemnons son and his daughter hilled their mother. Then they would be

  punished by Furies(復仇女神).

11. Achaeans  希臘軍隊

12. Myrmidons 光亮的

13. PatroclusAchilles’ best friend, was killed by Hector, the prince of Troy, so

   Achilles goes to fight and then die. ( HectorCassandra’s brother)

14. –ium  框線起來的範圍

15. Grey-Eyed One 通常指Athena(戰爭和智慧女神)

16. well (n) 井水   (v) 充滿淚水

17. fusion = mixture

18. mono-  one

19. -th- → god

20.omni- → all

21. omnipotent → all power

22. Augustine

23.上進心  
    (1)  ambition

    (2) striving for the best


Vocabulary

1.oracle (n) 籤詩
2.rope (n.) 袍子 (形象網子狀)
3.plague (n.) 瘟疫
4. swift = quick (adj) 快的
5. shield (n) 盾牌

6. craft (n) 裝飾品

7. helmet (n) 頭盔

8. smirk (v) 齒縫露出的笑
9. well (n) 井水  (v) 充滿淚水
10. fusion = mixture (n) 融合.混合
11. exasperation (n) 惱怒.激怒
12. infrustratingly (adv.) 令人氣憤的
13. impiety (n) 不虔誠;無信仰
14. execution (n) 死刑
15. internecine (a) 互相殘殺的
16. cynicism (n) 譏笑.諷刺的言語
17. Macedonian (n) 馬其頓人
18. dynasty (n) 朝代
19. fulitity (n) 無益.徒勞
20. hoogeneity (n) 同種.同質
21. peninsula (n) 半島
22. permeate (v) 充滿.滲入
23. aristocrat (n) 貴族(指個人)
24. systematically (adv.) 有組織的
25. senatorial (a) 元老院的;参議院的