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Week17

☆Final review

Term explanation:

1. tragic flaw

It is most often associated with Greek tragedy.  In tragedy, hamartia is theprotagonist’s error or flaw that leads to a chain of plot actions culminating in a reversal from his/her good fortune to bad. What qualifies as the error or flaw can include an error resulting from ignorance, an error of judgement, a flaw in character, or sin.

Zenith(n.)全盛時期

definition:

the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected [ant: {nadir}]

omnipotent(a.)全能的

definition:

Adherent(a.)附著的

definition:

     1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. --Pope.

        [1913 Webster]

     2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

Week16

☆Genesis 2

  Genesis II is the second experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace, launched in 2007. As the second module sent into orbit by the company, this spacecraft builds on the data and experience gleaned from its previously orbited sister-ship Genesis I. Like its sister-ship and other modules being designed by Bigelow Aerospace, this spacecraft is based on the NASA TransHab design, which provides increased interior volume and reduced launch diameter along with potentially reduced mass compared to traditional rigid structures.

☆Monotheism

 Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god or in the oneness of God.^[1] The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church gives a more restricted definition: "belief in one personal and transcendent God", as opposed to polytheism and pantheism.^[2] A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, and both inclusive monotheism and pluriform (panentheistic) monotheism which, while recognising many distinct gods, postulate some underlying unity.^[

Week15

☆Andromache

Was the wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled. The name means "man battler" or "fighter of men" (note that there was also a famous Amazon warrior named "Andromache," probably in this meaning) or "man's battle" (i.e. "courage" or "manly virtue"), from the Greek stem ἀνδρ- "man" and μάχη "battle".^[1]During the Trojan War, after Hector was killed by Achilles and the city taken by the Greeks, the Greek herald Talthybius informed her of the plan to kill Astyanax, her son by Hector, by throwing him from the city walls. This act was carried out by Neoptolemus who then took Andromache as a concubine and Hector's brother, Helenus, as a slave.

Nascent(a.)初期的

definition:

1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to

        exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

        [1913 Webster +PJC]

Week14

☆Agamenon

The son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike , Orestes and Chrysothemis.^[2] Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was taken to Troy by Paris, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

Surreptitious(a.)祕密的；暗中的

definition: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack";

Incontrovertible(a.)無疑的

definition: Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute;indisputable

Dismantle(v.)分解

Amorous(a.)多情的

definition: 1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to

        sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an

        amorous disposition.

        [1913 Webster]

Week13

☆Aristophanes

Son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum),^[3] was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it.^[4]Also known as the Father of Comedy^[5] and the Prince of Ancient Comedy,^[6] Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.^[7] His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato^[8][9] singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates although other satirical playwrights^[10] had also caricatured the philosopher.

Propinquity(n.)接近；類似

definition:

the property of being close together [syn: {proximity}, {propinquity}]

cacophony(n.)雜音

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Week12

☆Eurepides

A tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds)^[2] and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined^[3][4]—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.^[5]