initiation stories (p. 131
- a rite of passage making entrance or acceptance into a group or society.
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Christian baptism or confirmation, graduation form school, or recruit training. - Initiation stories
- Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Alice Munro *(p. 137)
- a Canadian author writing in English.
- Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories embed more than announce, reveal more than parade. Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction.
Song: Danny Boy
“When I am dead, as dead I well may be” 小女孩對死亡的想像
Questions: page 147
Synecdoche （提喻法）: a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).
One stand of the rest of all.
The film brought Australian actress Blanchett to international attention. She won several awards for her portrayal of Elizabeth, notably a BAFTA and a Golden Globe in 1998, while the film was also named the 1998 BAFTA Best British Film. Elizabeth was nominated in 7 categories in the 71st Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress, receiving the prize for Best Makeup.
The film sees a young Elizabeth elevated to the throne on the death of her half-sister Mary I, who had imprisoned her. Her reign over the divided and bankrupt realm is perceived as weak and under threat of invasion by Early Modern France or Habsburg Spain. For the future stability and security of the crown she is urged by advisor William Cecil (Attenborough) to marry, and has suitors in the Catholic Philip II of Spain and the French Henri, Duc d'Anjou. She instead embarks on an affair with the wholly unsuitable Robert Dudley (Fiennes).
Elizabeth must counter threats from within such as the powerful 4th Duke of Norfolk (Eccleston), and from the armies of Mary of Guise (Ardant) garrisoned in Scotland. She also faces plots from Rome directed by Pope Pius V (Gielgud). Assisted by her 'spymaster' Francis Walsingham (Rush), she puts down the threats both internal and external, ruthlessly executing the plotters. Elizabeth eventually ends her affair and resolves to marry nobody except England. The film ends with Elizabeth assuming the persona of the 'Virgin Queen', initiating England's Golden Age.
Vocabulary:
- exposition-- the part of a play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced: her father, a fox farmer
- unglamorous (a.) lacking glamour and excitement
- terrain [ter—>land] 地面、地域、地帶、地形
- memg-, mega- [large, million]
- megalith 兆赫
- megaron 中央大廳
- penetrate (v.) succeed in forcing a way into or through (a thing) 進入、穿透
- bronchial [itis 發炎inflammation]: gastritis [打嗝胃發炎], sinusitis [鼻竇炎], bronchitis
- male [badly, ill] mal, male
- malady 小病；微恙
- malaria 瘧疾
- maladjustment 適應不良
- malediction 惡意毀謗
- sooty (a.) covered with or colored like soot 被煤炭燻黑的
- whinnying: a gentle, high-pitched neigh.
- mort [death], mori- [die], mors [death]
- morbidity 病態、不健全
- imortal 不死的；不滅的
- mortify 克制；使羞愧（讓人想死掉）
對死亡的想像來自於民謠
You sound silly. 你好白痴、你好三八
Song: Stephan foster, old Uncle Ned
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