2015年12月24日 星期四

English Vocabulary and Etymology week15

Topic: Quiz 4 & Chapter 25~26



  

  Thomas Anthony Dooley III (1927 – 1961) was 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.


  The 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.

is the second major part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible. The Greek New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. Christians regard both the Old and New Testaments together as sacred scripture.
The New Testament consists of
a. The four gospels: four narratives of the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus- The Gospel of  Matthew/ Mark/ Luke/ John   
b. The Act: a narrative of the Apostles' ministries in the early church, called the "Acts of the Apostles", and probably written by the same writer as the Gospel of Luke, which it continues.
c. Epistle: twenty-one letters written by various authors, and consisting of Christian doctrine, counsel, instruction, and conflict
d. The Book of Revelation: a book of prophecy, containing some instructions to seven local congregations of Asia Minor, but mostly containing prophetical semiotics, about the end times.


●Three things that Christian must believe:
 a.The Second Coming: It is 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.
 b. Immaculate Conception: It 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.
 c. Resurrection of Jesus: is the Christian religious belief that, after being put to death, Jesus rose again from the dead. It is the central tenet of Christian theology and part of the Nicene Creed: "On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures".


  

  A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her Child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic & Orthodox churches. While Mary may be referred to as "the Madonna" in other contexts, in art the term is applied specifically to an artwork in which Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, is the focus, and central figure of the picture. Mary and the infant Jesus may be surrounded by adoring angels or worshiping saints.


●Notre Dame (Veneration of Mary in Roman Catholicism)






  Roman Catholic veneration of Mary, Mother of Jesus includes prayer, pious acts, visual arts, poetry and music devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Belief in the incarnation of God the Son through Mary is the basis for calling her the Mother of God.



The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father and the Pater Noster, is a venerated Christian prayer that, according to the New Testament, was taught by Jesus to his disciples.
Two forms of it are recorded in the New Testament: a longer form in the Gospel of Matthew[6:5–13] as part of the Sermon on the Mount, and a shorter form in the Gospel of Luke[11:1–4] as a response by Jesus to a request by "one of his disciples" to teach them "to pray as John taught his disciples" concludes with "deliver us from evil" in Matthew, and with "lead us not into temptation" in Luke.
The context of the prayer in Matthew is a discourse deploring people who pray ostentatiously.




  Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are blind and low vision. It is traditionally written with embossed paper. Braille-users can read computer screens and other electronic supports thanks to refreshable braille displays


  The Miranda warning, which can also be referred to as the Miranda rights, is a right to silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings.
  The Miranda warning is part of a preventive criminal procedure rule that law enforcement are required to administer to protect an individual who is in custody and subject to direct questioning or its functional equivalent from a violation of his or her Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination.

●<c.f> conceive/ perceive/ receive
1. conceive(全盤接受): imagine; invent; become pregnant (to imagine something; to invent a plan or an idea; to cause a baby to begin to form)
2. perceive(感知、感官的接受): see; believe (to see something or someone, or to notice something that is obvious; to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something)
3. receive(普通的接受): welcome; get (to formally welcome a visitor or guest; to get or be given something)

●fore- : “keep from happening”
foretaste- something that gives you an idea of what something else is like by allowing you to experience a small example of it before it happens
→The recent factory closures and job losses are just a foretaste of the recession that is to come.
foresight- the ability to judge correctly what is going to happen in the future and plan your actions based on this knowledge
→She'd had the foresight to sell her apartment just before house prices came down.
foreshadow- to act as a warning or sign of a future event
→The recent outbreak of violence was foreshadowed by isolated incidents in the city earlier this year.

●fra(g)- : “easily broken”
fractious- easily upset or annoyed, and often complaining
→The fractious crowd grew violent.
fragile- easily broken or damaged : very delicate : not strong
→He is in an emotionally fragile state.
fragment- an incomplete part
→I could only hear fragments of their conversation.
frailty- weakness and lack of health or strength; moral weakness
→ “Frailty thy name is woman. ---Hamlet
a.       It means alluding to the alleged inherent weakness of character of women.
b.      Hamlet is angry that his mother, Gertrude, has married his uncle Claudius within a month of his father's death. The speech generalizes the attribution of weakness of character from one particular woman to womankind.

●CP值= Credit Performance
●3D 產業= dirty, difficult, dangerous

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