(下學期)第五週

UNIT 5 THEME: Ages and Stages of Life This unit gives two perspectives on different stages of life. One is a poem about youth, and the other is an examination of aging at a time when people are living longer.

CHAPTER 9 In “On Turning Ten?” the author explores what it feels like for a child facing a tenth birthday.

CHAPTER 10 “A New Take on the Golden Years” discusses four factors shared by people who live long, reasonably healthy lives. 

1. Dolby Digital Live

Enjoy audio from your PC or game console through your home theater with Dolby Digital Live. A real-time encoding technology, Dolby Digital Live converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bit stream for transport and playback through a home theater system. 

2. light (line 29)stands for knowledge

3. skin(v.)
(1.) to take the skin off an animal, a fruit or a vegetable
You'll need four ripe tomatoes, skinned and chopped.
(2.) to rub the skin off part of your body by accident
He skinned his knees climbing down the tree.

4. discount fare for senior citizen
senile(negative)
Word History: In earlier writings, senile and senility have not always been burdened with their current negative connotations. These two words are examples of pejoration, the process by which a word's meaning changes for the worse over time. Even though senile (first recorded in 1661) and senility (first recorded in 1778) initially had neutral senses such as "pertaining to old age", it is probable that the mental decline that sometimes accompanies old age eventually caused negative senses to predominate.

5. participate= take part in
anticipate: think before it happened
anti-, again,opposite
predict
pre-, before

6. take stands for possibility= other choice= alternative

7. centenarians
cent-: 100

8. paying the mill, raising children, pursue activities

9. feel drained
10 medical reasons for feeling tired:
1. Coeliac disease
2. Anaemia
3. Chronic fatigue syndrome
4. Sleep apnoea
5. Underactive thyroid
6. Diabetes
7. Glandular fever
8. Depression
9. Restless legs

10. Anxiety

10. at the end of a busy day

11. look forward to(prep.)

12. please see the attached file for your reference

13. detach
de-, away from, down

14. one: uni- unicycle, unicorn, union

one: mono- monorail, monoplane, monocular

two: bi- biennial, bimonthly, bicycle

three: tri- tricolor, triple, triangle

ten: dec- decade, decagon

one hundred: centi- centenarian, century

one thousand: milli- million, millimeter, milliard

2014/3/28
1. constipate: unable to empty your bowels as often as you should:
If you ate more fiber you wouldn't get constipated.

2. constitution: the set of political principles by which a state or organization is governed, especially in relation to the rights of the people it governs:
Britain has no written constitution.

3. constrain: to control and limit something:
The country's progress was constrained by a leader who refused to look forward.

4. constrict: to become tighter and narrower, or to make something become tighter and narrower:
He hated wearing a tie - he felt it constricted his breathing.

5. construe: to understand the meaning, especially of other people's actions and statements, in a particular way:
Any change in plan would be construed as indecision.

2014/3/31
1. consult: to get information or advice from a person, book, etc. with special knowledge on a particular subject:
If the symptoms get worse, consult your doctor.

2. consummate: perfect, or complete in every way:
He's a consummate athlete/gentleman/liar.

3. consumption: the amount used or eaten:
As a nation, our consumption of junk food is horrifying.

4. contagion:  the situation in which a disease is spread by touching someone or something:
The doctor says there's no chance/danger of contagion.

5. contaminate: to make something less pure or make it poisonous:
Much of the coast has been contaminated by nuclear waste.

2014/4/1
1. contemplation: serious and quiet thought for a period of time:
She was staring out over the lake, lost in contemplation.

2. contemporary: existing or happening now:
Although the play was written hundreds of years ago, it still has a contemporary (= modern) feel to it.

3. contempt: a strong feeling of disliking and having no respect for someone or something:
At school she had complete contempt for all her teachers.

4. contend: to compete in order to win something:
There are three world-class tennis players contending for this title.

5. content: pleased with your situation and not hoping for change or improvement:
He seems fairly content with (his) life.

2014/4/2
1. contest: a competition to do better than other people, usually in which prizes are given:
She's won a lot of beauty contests.

2. context: the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it:
It is important to see all the fighting and bloodshed in his plays in historical context.

3. contingency: something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further arrangements necessary:
You must be able to deal with all possible contingencies.

4. continuity: the fact of something continuing for a long period of time without being changed or stopped:
There has been no continuity in that class - they've had a succession of different teachers.

5. contort: to (cause something to) twist or bend violently and unnaturally into a different shape or form:
His face contorted with bitterness and rage.

2014/4/3
1. contour: the shape of a mass of land or other object, especially its surface or the shape formed by its outer edge:
He studied the contours of her face.

2. contradict: (of people) to say the opposite of what someone else has said, or (of one fact or statement) to be so different from another fact or statement that one of them must be wrong:
If you're both going to lie, at least stick to the same story and don't contradict each other!

3. contraption: a device or machine that looks awkward or old-fashioned, especially one that you do not know how to use:
Whatever's that strange contraption you've got in the garage?

4. contributory: describes something that you contribute to:
The company offers a contributory pension plan (= one to which both the employee and employer pay money).

5. contrive: to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning:
Couldn't you contrive a meeting between them? I think they'd be ideally suited.