Week 7: Miss Potter
1.Let me teach you how to dance--Performed by Ewan McGregor
Let me teach you how to dance is a song firstly appearing in the movie Miss Potter when Norman Warne opened the music box.
Let me teach you how to dance in Miss Potter
2. Lake District
The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains (or fells) and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets.
(1) 說到湖區(Lake District)，那裏大概是英國人心目中最美的國家公園：依山傍水、山綠湖藍。那裏有英國最高的山，也有英國最低的谷。同時，那裏也有全英國最長的湖，總長約16公里。
Wordsworth in 1798
*Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey came to be known as the "Lake Poets". Throughout this period many of Wordsworth's poems revolve around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief.
Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work.
By William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
(1) "Beatrix" is a Latin name meaning "she who makes happy" pronounced in English. It is rarely used in English and is a Latinate variant of the more common English name Beatrice.
(2) Beatrice Portinari was Dante's (但丁) ex-girlfriend. He had fallen in love with her before he was exiled from Florence.
4. Chip&Dale
Chip and Dale (also rendered as Chip 'n' Dale or Chip an' Dale) are two chipmunk cartoon characters created in 1943, at Walt Disney Productions. Their names are a pun based on the name of the famous 18th-century cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale. This was suggested by Bill "Tex" Henson, a story artist at the studio.
Chip (left) and Dale (right) in the Chip 'n' Dale film series title screen
5. The Holiday
The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers, distributed by Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures, filmed in both California and England, and starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who temporarily exchange homes to escape heartbreak during the holiday season. Jude Law and Jack Black are the movie's leading men, with Eli Wallach, Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell playing key supporting roles.
Theatrical release poster
6. Vocabulary and Phrases
(1) debut n. 初次登台；開張
vi. 初次登台
(2) attend v. 出席；照料
attend on 照料
attend university 上大學
attend funeral 出席葬禮
(3) flashback n. 倒敘
(4) pass away 去世
(5) purchase v. 購買
purchase requisition 請購單
(6) preserve v. 保護
n. 保護區
preservative n. 防腐劑
adj. 防腐的
no preservatives, no artificial flavor 無防腐劑，無人工香料
(7) tarn n. 潭；山中小湖
(8) Lesbian--Gay adj.
He is gay. 無冠詞
(9) gazed-and-gazed 連字符表示連續性
(10) dystopian--utopia 反烏托邦--烏托邦
(11) product--produce
(12) say grace 飯前禱告
(13) pass up 暈倒
(14) a herd of 一群
(15) switch the lane 換車道
