上課筆記：

博雅宏達。/博學而篤志，切問而近思。

To learn and to understand.

To learn, to act.

longfellow poems

Paul Revere國家寶藏

Bartleby抄寫員

Herman Meville/Moby Dick/the Scribvner

A Psalm of life be Henry Wadsworth longfellow

Be up and doing. 坐而言不如起而行。

Learn to labor and to wait.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

the Immortals

We are only mortal, we are only flesh and blood.

our time is limited

muffled/slumber

Turst no Future, however pleasant！

Let the dead Past bury its dead.

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字根字首：

1.accumulate： to gather or collect

Ex： Protein fragments accumulate between nerve cells.

accord： to be in agreement or harmony

Ex： If sovereign and subject are in accord,  put division between them.

accuse： to charge with the fault

Ex： Many legislators accuse professors of living the cushy life and failing to work productively.

accustom： to familiarize by custom or use

Ex： To observe them, you must accustom them to your presence.

2.reject： to refuse to have

Ex： But some curators reject putting up barriers between artwork and visitor.

restore： to bring back into existence

Ex： To put it simply: tax the rich, end the wars and restore honest and effective government for all.

retirement： the act of retiring, withdrawing, or leaving

Ex： The loss of his journals had caused him even more sorrow than his retirement from the military six years earlier.

remind： to cause to remember

Ex： We feel guilty to call ourselves veterans and sometimes have to remind ourselves that our military service wasn't a chimera.

3.uneasy： not easy in body or mind

Ex：Even as its executives celebrated, recalls one, they were uneasy.

unconscious： not conscious

Ex： Since laughter is typically an unconscious, automatic response it is a useful measure for laying bare individual biases.

uncover： to remove the cover or covering from

Ex： You'll need to uncover the cooker for the last three hours, so plan ahead.

unfair： not fair

Ex： He got a ton of publicity for his tirade, a reward that was pretty unfair in and of itself.

4.disturb： to interrupt the quiet

Ex： What the book biz wants is words that won't disturb, outrage or frighten.

discontent： not content; dissatisfied

Ex： And it became the target of discontent and anger.

disgrace： the loss of respect

Ex： There are a great many poor among them,  but poverty is not a disgrace to any one.

disorder： lack of order or regular arrangement

Ex： Depression is a physiologically based medical disorder which also has mental ramifications.

5.permanent： existing perpetually

Ex： Some have asked for help removing scratches, permanent marker and even paint.

permit： to allow to do something

Ex： The parking auction plan allows the market to decide the price of a permit.

perform： to carry out

Ex： Establish and maintain a viable research program,  write proposals and perform other scholarly activities.

persevere： to persist in anything undertaken

Ex： Those who persevere will be richly rewarded as the plot and characters are slowly refined.

單字筆記：

1. leisure(n.)： freedom from the demands of work or duty

Ex： Or their work and leisure activities might be more physically demanding, which promotes physical fitness.

2. reject(v.)： to refuse to have, take, recognize

Ex： In the best-case scenario, you'll be able to respond and then reject me, saying you've already secured a tenure-track position.

3. withdraw(v.)： to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove

Ex： If you withdraw your chances of getting funding from that agency are greatly diminished.

4. excerpt(n.)： a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like

Ex： To comment upon every aspect of that excerpt is beyond the scope of this paper.

5. facility(n.)：ready compliance

Ex： He has great facility in learning languages.

6. gossip(n.)： idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others

Ex： She had a gossip with her neighbor.

7. permanent(adj.)： existing perpetually; everlasting

Ex： Some have asked for help removing scratches, permanent marker and even paint.

8. pinch(v.)： to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument

Ex： He decided to pinch back the buds on the plant.

9. ponder(v.)： to consider something deeply and thoroughly

Ex： Open-minded readers will enjoy her beautifully written book as an opportunity to ponder our shared humanity.

10. slogan(n.)： a distinctive cry, phrase, or motto of any party, group, manufacturer, or person; catchword or catch phrase

Ex： Commercial use of the slogan potentially is a multimillion-dollar business.

11. sting(v.)： to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ

Ex： Having no hive to defend, they're not aggressive and rarely sting.

12. widow(n.)： a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not remarried

Ex： The lady was sketching in charcoal the head of her future husband, although she wore no widow 's veil.

13. abolish(v.)： to do away with; put an end to

Ex： The process of abolish ing the death penalty moved forward at an unusually fast pace.

14. abbey(n.)： a monastery under the supervision of an abbot or a convent under the supervision of an abbess

Ex： The palace was built around a quadrangle, situated west of the abbey cloister.

15. absurd(adj.)： utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false

Ex： The play is then rejected as senseless or as directly absurd, and by virtue of reason it becomes impossible.

16. bald(adj.)： having little or no hair on the scalp

Ex： And she hadn't told her husband that her head would be bald on his return.

17. batter(v.)： to deal heavy ; to slope backward and upward

Ex： Place baking soda in a small dish, stir in vinegar and add to batter with machine running.

18. beckon(v.)： to signal, summon

Ex： Now that the fall semester is upon us, however, more serious pursuits beckon.

19. beget(v.)： to procreate or generate

Ex： In this game, violence doesn't necessarily beget violence.

20. drape(v.)： to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric

Ex： drape curtains over a window

21. relish(v.)： to take pleasure in

Ex： Others, particularly audiophiles, relish in that isolation.

22. register(v.)： to enroll in a school or course of study, on the voting rolls, etc

Ex： Waldo went to the city hall to register the birth of his son.

23. mock(v.)： to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision

Ex： She mocked him as a country boy.

24. merit(n.)： claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth

Ex： People may not like her, but she has her merits.

25. loft(n.)： a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof

Ex： Entire third floor is available for lease in this four story loft building.