Week15
English Vocabulary and Etymology:
1.
Confidential:
Done or communicated in confidence; secret.
2.
Treacherous:
Guilty of or characterized by betrayal of confidence or trust; perfidious.
3.
Drifting
along: 隨波逐流
4.
Down in the
dumps: unhappy
5.
Learned: Having
profound, often systematic knowledge; erudite.
6.
Feeble: Lacking
bodily strength; weak
7.
Boast: To
talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or
self-admiring way.
8.
Pledge: A
solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something.
9.
Anthology: A
collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays.
10. Thomas Anthony Dooley III: an American who, while
serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, became famous
for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities in South East Asia
and the United States until his early death from cancer.
Thomas A. Dooley, M.D.
11. fra-: 「脆弱的」、「易碎的」。
ex. fragile, fragmentary, frailty
12. Book of Revelation: often known simply as
Revelation or The Apocalypse of John, is a book of the New Testament that
occupies a central place in Christian eschatology.
13. The Second Coming: primarily a Christian concept
regarding a future return of Jesus to Earth after his "first coming"
and ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago.
Greek icon of Second
Coming, c.1700
14. Immaculate Conception: according to the teaching
of the Catholic Church, was the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the
womb of her mother, Saint Anne, free from original sin by virtue of the
foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ.
La Purísima Inmaculada Concepción by Bartolomé
Esteban Murillo
15. Rosary: a form of prayer used especially in the
Catholic Church named for the string of prayer beads used to count the
component prayers.
The most commonly known format of the Rosary
16. CP值：cost-performance
17. di-: 「四散」的意思。
ex. disparity, dilapidated, diversity
18. fore-: before
ex. foretell, foresight, forehead
19. in-: 有「否定」的意思。
ex. interrogate, inglorious, incapable
20. ob-:「負面的」意思。
ex. obsequious, obstacle
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