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I live outside...我跟老外聊到自己一個人住外面,為何他以為我睡在陽台?

(O) I live by myself/on my own. (我自己住。) (O) I moved out my parents’ house./ I don't live with my parents. (我沒和父母住一起。) (X) Let's dine outside. 這會變成了在房子/餐廳或辦公室外面吃飯。 (O) Let's dine out. 這才是到餐廳外食。 世界公民文化中心

Words in Business

Regulars are the lifeblood of any restaurant business.  (餐廳的生意基本是靠老主顧支持的。) repeat customer rate,指的是回客率 William felt himself to be senior to all of us. (威廉認為自己比其他所有人資格都要老) Mike was two years my senior at Yale.  (麥克是耶魯大我兩屆的學長) Source:  http://www.core-corner.com/Web2/

Week 17

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Modernist Manifestos *   Modernist Manifestos * and American Modernist poetry would be covered in the courses like “ modernist literature ” and “ American poetry ” The  Virginia Tech shooting  (also known as the  Virginia Tech massacre ) occurred on April 16, 2007, on the campus of  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  in  Blacksburg, Virginia , United States.  Seung-Hui Cho , a  senior  at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows), approximately two hours apart, before committing  suicide . [6] :92 [7] [8] :78  The attack is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history and one of the deadliest by a single gunman worldwide. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was ro...

Week 16

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since 1945 :  overview Tennessee Williams ’s  A  Street car Named Desire   Faith and rationality Faith and rationality  are two ideologies that exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility.  Rationality  is based on  reason  or  facts .  Faith  is belief in  inspiration ,  revelation , or authority . The word  faith  usually refers to a belief that is held with lack of, in spite of or against  reason  or  evidence , while another position holds that it can refer to belief based upon a degree of evidential warrant. Although the words  faith  and  belief  are sometimes erroneously conflated and used as synonyms,  faith  properly refers to a particular type (or subset) of  belief,  as defined above. Broadly speaking, there are two categories of views regarding the relationship between faith and rationality: Rationalism ...