A cappellaà Italian for in the manner of the church or in the manner of the chapel (small church)is agroup, or solo, singing without instrumental sound (*Halian: without instrument)
Cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop大教堂 (→ Ch-chair)
Goose bumps: small bumps on your skin that are caused by cold, fear, or a sudden feeling of excitement 雞皮疙瘩
Amateur: a person who does something for pleasure and not as a job業餘
“A mature man live humbly for a one.”— Catcher in the Rye
Bureaucracy官僚主義 FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
The economist “Student Taiwan”:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/politics-taiwan
Checks and balances by James Madison
Legislation: make law, Executive: enforce the law, Judiciary: interpret the law
Congress (American) Parliament (British): the Senate House of the Representation
Trade in service pact
Protestant新教徒Catholic 天主教Christian基督教
→ Elizabeth I
WASP: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Stuart Little boat
南北戰爭Sherman Generalà焦土政策
Gone with the wind
Square平方 cubic立方 diameter直徑
1492 哈德良長城
A-/an-: no; without; lack, e.g. anonymous, amoral, asocial
The(o)-: god, e.g. theology, theist, atheism
-cracy: govern; manage, e.g. theocracy, bureaucracy, democracy
Pro-: in favor of, e.g. pro-British, proslavery, pro-Bolshevik
De-: down, away from, e.g. depress, devalue, dethrone
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