2008年5月28日 星期三

5/23 entertainment : summer movie magic

Chat Room
No laughing matter => serious
take a joke
can't take a joke
play the joke on someone

Word
animate animated
* The animated movie is excepted to be a blockbuster this summer.
animation
* Computer animation is widely used in many movies.

pampered pamper
* She doesn't want to be labeled as a pampered rich girl.
* He's just a pampered child who thinks everyone around him servicing him.

encounter
* She encounter her high school teacher in the train station.
* He encountered many difficulties while he was writing his thesis.

2008年5月27日 星期二

5/22 entertainment : summer movie magic (1)

Chat Room
villainess
at odds 爭吵不合
protagonist 主角 man charactor
antagonist 反角
foil -> prevent someone success
foiled again!!

Word
villainess
villain
* She played villainess in one of James Bond movies.
* The villain in the story kidnapped the heroine(主角).

on the edge of your seat
* The movie day after tomorrow really kept me on the edge of my seat.
* The bank's performance kept everyone one the edge of their seats.

exiled
* The exiled president lived in Hawaii for years before he return to his country.
* The exiled general was accused of many crimes.

2008年5月26日 星期一

5/21 Beautiful Auckland and beautiful people

Chart Room:
enthusiast 愛好 => baseball enthusiast = baseball fan
enthusiasm 熱心

Word:
rivalry
rival 對手
*The friendly rivalry between the two departments encourage the employees work hard.
*There was a fierce rivalry between all the contestants competing to win the title.
sibling rival 手足競爭

screeching
*We all heard the sound of the screeching tires when the car stop.
*The police-officer was trying to calm down the screeching woman.

ripe 成熟
ripen 使成熟 vt
*The grapes was ripening nicely. They'll be a good harvest this year.
*The sweet smell of ripe strawberries wafted from the garden.

2008年5月25日 星期日

5/20 Beautiful Auckland and beautiful people

Chat Room :
smog => smoky fog 霾害
brunch => breakfast lunch 午晚餐
biopic => biographical picture 傳記影片

Word Time :

strike struck struck
*The interviewer was struck by Kate's air of confidence. (self-confidence)
*How did the movie strike you.

overlook
*The cottage on the hill overlooks the whole valley.
*Our hotel room overlook the lake.

dormant
*The kind of bear remains dormant during the winter.
a dormant volcanoes
an extinct vocanoes
an active vocanoes

2008年5月7日 星期三

* alphabetic = alphabetical
Nonqutoed names must begin with an alphabetic character from your database character set.

*estimate
The initial design, the need to be properly estimated.
The original design need to be appropriately expected.

*deprecate => discourage
The LONG data in Oracle is deprecated(2GB); use the large object (LOB) instead.

*venue , facility , stadium , gymnasium
Olympic venue.
The school is planning to build a large facility to play sport in.
When the Olympics were finished , the stadium was used for soccer game.
Groups of gymnasts are having their physical training in the gymnasium

2008年5月5日 星期一

1-1 Perpetual 永久 a.
constant a.
constantly adv.
incessant a.
incessantly adv.
continuous a.
continuing a.
unending a.
unceasing a.
unchangeable a.


1-51 Lasting 耐久

3-12 Persisting 持續