中秋地球圓不圓 Still wondering where to go with your loved one for the next holiday? Or dreaming of wandering in a place where is scarcely reached by tourists? Take a trip to the space and set your foot on the moon! That could be a way to go for fantasy and romance. Let's be romantic, shall we? Celebrating the "Earth" Festival on the moon!  最新消息 ◎　英語寫作、英文小老師諮詢服務 (重新開張囉!!!) 夏日炎炎正好眠，寫作諮詢也得閒。暑假結束囉，諮詢老師們也早已好好養精蓄銳ㄧ番，準備解決同學們的疑難雜症。所以同學們，儘管放馬來問吧!!!...我要預約寫作諮詢...我要找小老師 ◎　English Freeway更新 暑假中，趁大家不注意的時候，English Freeway就偷偷的更新啦。在首頁的公路圖片，大家可以找到兩個新的路牌，也就是我們加入的兩個新的區塊：一個是News Online，收集了各大網路新聞的網址。另外一個則標向新的一條岔路，也就是新開的Postgraduates研究生專區。Freeway越來越豐富了，大家暑假多來Freeway學英文吧。.....來去看新路牌！ ↑top  E-Freeway主題介紹 LINGUALNET-Learning English Through Movies! 本網站提供給學習者精彩且有趣的英文影片學習單元，影片內容分為DRAMA, ANIMATION, CINE-POETRY, HOME MADE, DOCUMENTARY, TRAVEL, COMMERCIALS, HOME & GARDEN。學習者能夠輕鬆容易使用此網站內容並增進聽力能力喔....看我聽不聽得懂!!! Adult Learning Activities-California Distance Learning Project 本網站提供給學習者各種英文學習資源，提供的內容包羅萬象，主題也偏向是成人較有興趣學習的方向,包括 Working, Law & Government, Family, School, Health & Safety, Housing, Money, Science & Technology, Services, Going Places, Nature等，它的特色是每個學習單元皆提供音檔或是影片檔的練習，學習者一點都不會覺得枯燥乏味喔....那麼有趣喔!!!! ↑top  館藏介紹 BBC Videos — SUPERHUMAN, The Awesome Power Within 介紹了那麼多期BBC人體系列的影片，終於來到了最後一個單元"超級人類"。不同於其他單元都在介紹人體在"正常情況"下，如何巧妙地運作，"超級人類"要引領觀眾見識人體超強的自我修復級防衛能力。還有在現代醫療科技的幫助下，如何強化人體抵禦外敵，還有組織器官重建的能力，甚至是經由篩選基因，而有可能培育出超強人種。在影片中，可以聽到許多常見疾病和症狀的英語，所以啦，各位讀者又可以一邊在學這些英文單字和片語時，一邊想一想.....下一代都會是超人嗎? ↑top  英語宅急便 Space tourism? Come on, be realistic! "太空旅行?有沒有搞錯啊!連出國去玩都要勒緊褲腰帶,外加埋頭苦幹,擠個一年半載的,才擠得出那一點點的旅費和短短的連假,太空旅行?哈哈,別鬧了好不好." Annie: Honey... Wayne: Yes, babe? (Wayne is reading online news) Annie: How are we going to plan for the holiday? Wayne: What holiday? Annie: The Moon Festival! Don't you remember that? Wayne: Oh..yeah..yeah. I remember. That's a four-day holiday this year. So then, what do you reckon? Any two cents to put in? Annie: Just no more BBQ please. I'm really sick and tired of BBQ. Wayne: Why? That's a must for the Moon Festival. We always lap it up every year. Annie: I know that's ripper. We can just have a laid back afternoon and have a hell lot of yummy tucker. Wayne: And get a slab all the time. Then I will be in my element. Annie: You drunkard. Wayne: I'm not a drunkard. I just like being tipsy sometimes. Annie: Yeah, you bet. (Annie gently smacks Wayne's head while saying this.) Wayne: Ouch, what's that for? Annie: That's for waking you up and not looking at me when I'm talking to you. Wayne: Ok, I'm sorry. (Wayne is still looking at the screen while saying this)...Hey, have a look at this news. They'd got another rich bloke rocketed up to the space. (Both of them are reading through the news) Wayne: Wooo, the damage to his bank account was surely enormous. Annie: I don't think so. That could be just the tip of the iceberg of his money. Wayne: That's really off the beaten track. What do you think we would do if we were up there, on the moon? Annie: For the Moon Festival? Wayne: Yeah. Annie: What a mind-boggling idea. Well then, there won't be a full moon that night. That's for sure. But probably we can see a "full earth" instead. Wayne: Yeah, do you think we can see Taiwan from there? Probably we can if they've got a really big Sky Lantern Festival in Pinghsi. Annie: Sky lantern? What are you on about? Do you wanna row a Dragon boat as well? Wayne: Oh yeah, we don't have lanterns for the Moon Festival. So then we can mosey around with some fat-laden mooncakes in our bags, and probably hunt a couple of Jade Rabbits for BBQ! Annie: Yeah, you bet. Jade Rabbits. And it's gonna be even better with some local brewed lager, isn't it? Wayne: Yeah, that'll be awesome. Annie: You helpless drunkard!   Wordbank： ripper (adj): 很棒的 bloke (n) = guy yummy (adj) = delicious enormous (adj): 巨大的；龐大的 tucker (n) = food mosey (v): 隨意走走、晃晃；漫步 drunkard (n): 酒鬼 Jade (n): 玉 tipsy (adj): 微醺 brewed (adj): 釀造的 smack (v): 打；拍 lager (n): 啤酒的一種 Phrases： any two cents to put in? : 有什麼意見嗎? sick and tired of: 非常的厭煩 a must: 一定要做的事 lap it up: 很享受某件事情 laid back: 悠閒、慵懶 a hell lot of: 很多的；一大堆的 get a slab: 拿著酒瓶啜飲 in my element: 覺得自在舒服 the tip of the iceberg: 冰山一角 off the beaten track: 人跡罕至的地方 mind-boggling: 令人感到驚奇的 What are you on about? : 你在想什麼啊? or 你在說什麼啊? fat-laden: 脂肪或熱量很高的   相關連結： (Reuters) Space Tourist Returns to Earth (CBC News) Civilians in space FAQs (ABC Science Online) Space tourism blasts off into legal mire   ↑top
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