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21 D. H.
Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
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Sons and
lovers
“ my heart
ponders and I sweat”
Sons
and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the
English writer D. H. Lawrence.
tedious: If you describe something such as a
job, task, or situation as tedious ,
you mean it is boring and rather frustrating.
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There was a woman who was beautiful, who
started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for
love, and the love turned to dust.
Song : You
don’t bring me flower (Barbra Streisand)
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bonny: beautiful
find fault
with
英式用法/美式用法：
centre
/center
dialogue /
dialog
catalogue/ catalog
theatre /
theater
neighbour /
neighbor
colour /
color
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The Garden of Eden is the biblical "garden of God", described most
notably in the Book of Genesis chapters 2 and 3, and also in the Book of Ezekiel.
·
In Christian theology,
the fall of man, or the fall, is a term used to
describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent
obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
Free will
possible consequence/ materialized
temptation: If you feel you want to
do something or have something, even though you know you really should avoid it,
you can refer to this feeling as temptation.
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These prospects never materialized racked her brain 絞盡腦汁
rack 架子
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The Anna
Karenina principle describes
an endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it to
failure.
Happy
families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own
way.
·
senior prom: a formal dance
or gathering of high school students held at the end of the senior year.
commencement
commence (v.) When something commences or you commence it,
it begins.
12 apostles: According to the
Bible's New Testament, the Apostles were
the primary disciples of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity.
Paul the Apostle: was an apostle
(though not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of
Christ to the first-century world. He is generally considered
one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age.
·
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Anglo-Polish
novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart
of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow.
·
fixedly: If you stare fixedly at someone or something,
you look at them steadily and continuously for a period of time.
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Song: It’s all over now, baby blue
Bob Dylan blowin’
in the wind
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