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. Sisyphus:was punished by being compelled to roll a huge boulder up a hill, to
watch it to roll back down
5. Tantalus:cooked his son, and then suffering from hungry, thirsty and dread forever
6. Tartarus:a 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 (Agamemnon’s father) killed his brother.
(2) Agamemnon’s cousin (Aegisthus) roped his wife, Clytemnestra, and killed
him when he came back to his kingdom.
(3) Agamemnon’s 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. Patroclus:Achilles’ best friend, was killed by Hector, the prince of Troy, so
Achilles goes to fight and then die. ( Hector→Cassandra’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