Western Literature week15－藺才芯的部落格

Western Literature

12/23

week15

12/24 Christmas Eve 12/25 Christmas day 12/26 Boxing day
Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies.

Charles Dickens 狄更斯

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

1)Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man many ,not on you past misfortunes, of which all men have some.— Charles Dickens, Writer

多想想你目前擁有的幸福，這是每人都擁有很多的。不要回想以前的不幸，這也是每人多多少少都有一些的。

2)I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.— Charles Dickens, Writer

少了準時、規律及勤勞的習慣，少了一次只專心致志於一件事的決心，我不可能得到今天的成就。

A Christmas carol 小氣財神

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas,commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella byCharles Dickens. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.A Christmas Carol remains popular—having never been out of print—and has been adapted many times to film and opera.The book was written at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past as well as new customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees.

Jim Carry is a scrooge

*scrooge (a): someone who spends as little money as possible and is not generous

He's a mean old scrooge!

David Copperfield,illusionist

David Copperfield is an American illusionist, and has been described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.Copperfield's television specials have won 21 Emmy Awards of a total 38 nominations. Best known for his combination of storytelling and illusion, Copperfield's career of over 40 years has earned him 11 Guinness World Records,a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a knighthood by the French government, and he has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress.

西方人取名子: 神君王
have yourself a merry little Christmas from Meet me in St.Louis

lyrics

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,

Let your heart be light

From now on,

our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,

Make the Yule-tide gay,

From now on,

our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,

Happy golden days of yore.

Faithful friends who are dear to us

Gather near to us once more.

Through the years

We all will be together,

If the Fates allow

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.

And have yourself A merry little Christmas now.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – lyrics

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", a song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, was introduced by Judy Garland in MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis.

gay a. (in old use):estremely happy
the original sin Adam and Eve原罪

Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is the Christian doctrine of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man, namely the sin of consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and evil,stemming from Adam's rebellion in Eden. This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective guilt, referred to as a "sin nature", to something as drastic as total depravity or automatic guilt of all humans through collective guilt.

escaping from confiding object :movie is a way
fresco壁畫

Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting.The word fresco (Italian: affresco) is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh".

abraham isaac

Abraham Sacrificing Isaac

Question: "Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?"

Answer: Abraham had obeyed God many times in his walk with Him, but no test could have been more severe than the one in Genesis 22. God commanded, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:2a).

This was an astounding command because Isaac was the son of promise. God had promised several times that from Abraham’s own body would come a nation as multitudinous as the stars in heaven (Genesis 12:2–3;15:4–5). Later, Abraham was specifically told that the promise would be through Isaac (Genesis 21:12).