Melody Su 的部落格

Solicitor   【Late + people (dead)】

: a person whose job involves talking to many people and trying to persuade them to buy things, donate money, etc.

: a lawyer in Britain who assists people in legal matters and who can represent people in lower courts of law

: a chief law officer of a city, town, or government department

Flor-: flower, e.g. florce, florence, flora

Florence【佛羅倫斯百花大教堂】

I RESENT you.(=hate)

: to be angry or upset about (someone or something that you think is unfair)

What a NUISANCE! (=annoying)

: a person, thing, or situation that is annoying or that causes trouble or problems 

Spinster

: an unmarried woman who is past the usual age for marrying and is considered unlikely to marry

→18世紀工業革命紡織業Spinwheel

女生不能繼承財產:

“Orlando” —Virginia Woolf (半自傳作品)

“Jane Eyre” —Charlotte Bronte

(Author’s sister writes Wuthering Heights )

Tutor (British )導師；大學師徒制(碩博士)

Governess in Victoria novel 家教；陪讀

男多女寡，導致女生無法全部明媒正娶，多娼妓小三:

“French Lieutenant’s Woman”John Fowels (Metafiction)

Pension: an amount of money that a company or the government pays to a person who is old or sick and no longer works

Slander: to make a false spoken statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone

Upset動詞p.p.同形

"Heaven and earth,

Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!—"—Hamlet Act 1, scene 2, 142–146

Sting – fields of gold

John Donne – No One Is An Island

"For whom the bell tolls"【戰地鐘聲】

Hemingway

"A Movable Feast" in Paris 

Syn-: anonymous; same, e.g. synonym, synchronous, synthesis

Frag-: break, e.g. fragile, fragment, fracture