把握。正直。熱情

1.R.L. Stevenson

  -Treasure Island a)father sarogat, b)parrotes figure, c)Long John Silver(亦正亦邪), d)coming-of-age story, and e)initiation

  -Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeàinevitable dark cell

• Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, includingJorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov,^[1] J. M. Barrie,^[2] and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".

2.Realistic Fiction

   -attempt to depict contemporary life and society

• Initiation
• Quest/Journey
• Adventure(genre)
• Bildungsroman(roman means story)

3.representive=representative a./n.

• an elected/political representative
• The Dow Jones Index is not necessarily representative of the whole of corporate America.

4.Verisimilitude

 =truthlikeness

  -veri (made it almost true)

5.Virgil/Vergil

• virtual reality:images and sounds that are produced by a computer and connected equipment to make the user feel as if they are in real THREE-DIMENSIONAL space
• virtually adv.
• I'm virtually impaired. (我快累死了)

6.-itude = 態度；偏頗

• fortitude (n.)a brave and determined attitude
• multitude (n.)formal or literary a very large number of people or things
• solitude (n.)the state of being completely alone, especially when this is pleasant or relaxing

7.Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),^[3] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel",^[4] and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted.^[5][6]Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

Twain was very popular, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned praise from critics and peers. Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age",^[7] and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".^[8]

• 良好的教養在於隱藏我們對自己較佳的評價，以及隱藏我們對他人較差的評價。

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."

• 「原則」是「偏見」的另一個名稱。

"Principles is another name for prejudice."

• 當你為愛情而釣魚時，要用你的心當作餌，而不是用你的腦筋。

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

• 如果所有的人都是富有的，那麼所有的人都是貧窮的。

"If all men were rich, all men would be poor."

• 一本懷有惡意的書籍將不會傷害到任何人，除了寫作它的傻瓜。

"A malignant book would hurt nobody but the fool who wrote it."

• 不要把事實告訴不值得的人。

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

8.馬後砲 afterwit: a part at the end of a book that has a few final remarks

9.characteristics (n.)a particular quality or feature that is typical of someone or something:

• In the future parents may be able to choose their children's physical characteristics.
• queer (a.) a)taboo an offensive word used to describe someone who is homosexual, especially a man. Do not use this word. b)old-fashioned strange or difficult to explain
  
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10.pro = in favor of

• pro-American (a.)supporting the United States and its policies
• procure (v.)to obtain something, especially with effort or difficulty
• prophecy (n.)a statement about a future event made by someone with religious or magic powers

11.spectacles

=(eye) glasses

= Eyewear

12.perplex (v.)if something perplexes you, it makes you feel confused and worried because it is difficult to understand

=confuse

13.Spare the rod spoil the child.

14.old scratch

Old Scratch or Mr. Scratch is a folk name for The Devil in the local legends of New England and pre-Civil War America.^[1] The character is exemplified in the short stories "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benet. It is possible that the local legends containing this name were influenced by Faustian stories brought to North America by German immigrants.

Old Scratch is also referred to in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo by Rudyard Kipling, in A Christmas Carol byCharles Dickens, in The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope, and in Miracle Monday by Elliot S. Maggin.