2015.10.28 - Week7

A. Vocabularies to Know

Xerox copy

1) Xerox copy:  a copy made by a xerographic printer
1-1) carbon copy: the under-copy of a document created when carbon paper is placed between the original and the under-copy during the production of a document (c.c. 通常是上對下)
( Q-lip和Xerox Copy都是用做得最好的廠商命名)
2) ally: a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war
3) silver-footed: like mercury, the metal, also called "quicksilver", silver -footed means fast. So the god mercury is a fast moving god. Someone who is silver footed can run very fast.
4) rage: (a period of) extreme or violent anger
4-1) fury: extreme anger
4-2) angry: having a strong feeling against someone who has behaved badly, making you want to shout at them or hurt them
5) mourn: to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death
5-1) lament:  to express sadness and feeling sorry about something
6) attendant: someone whose job is to be in a place and help visitors or customers
6-1) flight attendant: someone who serves passengers on an aircraft
7) elegy: a sad poem or song, especially remembering someone who has died or something in the past
8) Eugenics: the study of methods of improving humans by allowing only carefully chosen people to reproduce
9) foreshadowing: to act as a warning or sign of a future event
10) swine: a person who you consider to be extremely unpleasant and unkind
11) nemesis: someone's nemesis is a person or thing that is very difficult for them to defeat.
12) omen: something that is considered to be a sign of how a future event will take place
13) chron- time
14) treaty: a written agreement between two or more countries formally approved and signed by their leaders
15) entreaty: an attempt to persuade someone to do something
B. Movie - In her shoes

In Her Shoes is a 2005 American comedy-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Jennifer Weiner. It is directed by Curtis Hanson with an adapted screenplay by Susannah Grant and stars Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine. The film focuses on the relationship between two sisters and their grandmother.
C. Movie - Four wedding and funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant. It was made in six weeks and cost under £3 million, becoming an unexpected success and the highest-grossing British film in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of $245.7 million, and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.