Topic: chapter 21~22
●<c.f>
march/ parade/ demonstration
march- a
walk, especially by
a group of soldiers all walking with the same movement and speed
parade- a
large number of people walking or in vehicles, all going in the same direction,
usually as part of a public celebration of
something
demonstration- when
a group of people march or stand together to show that they disagree with or support
something or someone
●arm- “war”
1)
the armed
forces (→using
or carrying weapons)
A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest
Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I.
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair
between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the
backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the
displacement of populations.
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest
Hemingway published in 1940.
It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young
American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit
during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a
bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.
Thomas
Stearns Eliot OM (1888 – 1965) was a British, American-born essayist,
publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the
twentieth century's major poets".
"Journey of the
Magi" is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). In the
poem, Eliot retells the story of the Magi who travelled to Palestine to visit
the newborn Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew. It is a narrative, told
from the point of view of one of the magi, that expresses themes of alienation
and a feeling of powerlessness in a world that has changed.
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot.
It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century
and a central text in Modernist poetry. The poem shifts between voices of
satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker,
location, and time and conjuring of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and
literatures.
●John Donne- No
Man Is an Island
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer,
editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short
stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a
central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a
whole, he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.
●The fountain of youth
a. The Fountain of Youth
is a spring that supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes
in its waters.
b.
Indiana
Jones and the Last Crusade: In this film, there are also examples of
fountain of youth, like Indiana Jones was searching for the fountain of eternal
youth.
It is the capital of the U.S. state of
Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116,250,
as of the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the sixth most populated city in the
state.
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman,
general and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the
events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman
Empire.
Also commonly known as C-section and other
spellings, is a surgical procedure in which one or more incisions are made
through a mother's abdomen and uterus to deliver one or more babies.
●Orthodox Catholics
Eastern Orthodox Church is
the second largest Christian Church in the world, with an estimated 225–300
million adherents. Orthodoxy has no Papacy or bishopric of similar authority. Geographically,
the majority of Orthodox Christians in the 21st century reside in Greece,
Eastern Europe and Russia, with less numerous communities in the former
Byzantine regions of the Middle East and around the Eastern Mediterranean.
a. Mosaic-
Mosaic is the art of creating images with an
assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is a
technique of decorative art or interior decoration.
b. Hagia Sophia-
Hagia
Sophia is a former Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later an
imperial mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey. From
the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as a Greek Orthodox
cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and
1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin
Empire.
●Christmas songs- go
caroling-
to sing songs, especially carols, in a loud and happy way
●en- : “cause to
be, make into”
enable- to make
someone able to do something, or to make something possible.
→Computerization
should enable us to cut production costs by half.
entangle- to cause
something to become caught in something such as a net or ropes; involved with
something or someone in a way that makes it difficult to escape
→He went to the
shop to buy bread, and got entangled in/with
a carnival parade.
enclose- to surround
→The
park that encloses the monument has recently been enlarged.
●ex- : “out”
exorbitant- an exorbitant
price or amount of money is much more than is reasonable
→It
meant borrowing money at an exorbitant rate of interest.
exhilaration- to make
someone feel extremely happy, excited, and full of energy
→I
felt a kind of exhilaration when I reached the top of the mountain.
extricate- to free or remove (someone or something) from something (such as a trap or a difficult
situation)
→Several
survivors were extricated from the wreckage.
●bell- : “war”
belligerent- angry and
aggressive : feeling or showing readiness to fight
→The
coach became quite belligerent and spit at an umpire after being thrown out of
the game.
rebellious- refusing to
obey rules or authority or to accept normal standards of behavior, dress, etc.
→The
rebellious troops fought a pitched battle with divisions still loyal to the
government.
antebellum (ante-: “before”)- occurring
in the southern U.S. during the time before the American Civil War
●-juve: “young”
rejuvenate- to make someone feel or look
younger or have more energy; to make something such as an organization, system,
or place good or effective again
→He
has decided to rejuvenate the team by bringing in a lot of new, young players.
juvenilia- artistic or
literary compositions suited to or designed for the young
juvenile- relating to a
young person who is not yet old enough to be considered an adult; silly and
typical of a child
→She
criticized his juvenile behavior at the party.
→Juvenile court : (or young offender's court) is a tribunal
having special authority to pass judgments for crimes that are committed by
children or adolescents who have not attained the age of majority.
●suffixes for people’s
profession: -er, -or, -ist, -ian, -ant
–er: soldier/
teacher/ publisher/ designer
–or: labor/
vendor/ professor/ warrior
–ist:
artist/ dentist/ scientist/ journalist
–ian: magician/
musician/ veterinarian/ politician
–ant: protestant/
contestant/ applicant/ attendant/ accountant
→
a. Protestants: a member of the parts of the Christian Church which separated
from the Roman Catholic Church during the 16th century
b.
Catholics: Roman Catholic
c. Wasp: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an
informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential
White Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group
believed to control disproportionate social, political, and financial power in
the United States. It describes a group whose family wealth, education, status,
and elite connections allow them a degree of opportunity held by few others.
●Tower of Babel-
(scatter babel)
→Babel-
Babel is a 2006 drama film
directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga,
starring an ensemble cast. It’s a multidimensional story that explores what
happens when love is ignored, squandered, or annihilated by anger, alienation,
hatred and violence.
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