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Passage 12 and 10 in Speed Reading Week 4 Animals hunted prey, game Buck 雄鹿 Elk 驼鹿，大角鹿 Big horn sheep 大角山羊 Mountain lion 美洲狮 Black bear Pronghorn antelope 叉角羚羊 Oscar Wilde Life span: 1854-1900 an Irish writer, playwright, poet, and aesthete 美学家，唯美主义者 Selected works The Happy Prince and Other Stories 《快乐王子和其他故事》 The Picture of Dorian Gray《道拉格林的的画像》 The Importance of Being Earnest 《认真的重要性》 Quotes of Oscar Wilde Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance. Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Women are made to be loved, not understood. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Words and expressions Defame Damage the good opinion 破坏名誉，诽谤 Prefix de-: Devalue, dethrone, depopulated Outlaw V. declare illegal 宣布不合法 N. escaped criminal 亡命之徒，不法分子 Prefix out-: outlive, outgrow, out-argue Cont. Snare a device for trapping birds or small animals, esp. a flexible loop that is drawn tight around the prey 猎物 圈套, 罗网, 陷阱 Idom 1 : fall into a snare/trap 上当, 落入圈套 2 lay a snare/trap for 给...设圈套 Polarize Divide into two completely opposite groups 使两极分化 Pole, polar; North pole Arctic , South pole Antarctic Cont. Immaculate Clean and unspoilt 洁净的, 无污迹的 Groomed mounts Groom: brush or clean horses Mount: animal one rides on 坐骑 Accents within England Geographical accents Scottish, Irish and London accent Accents having to do with social stratum Received Pronunciation RP English With upper class accents Cockney English With working class accents Queens English RP really associated with England, not associated with any particular location within England. educated accent appears characteristically in upper and upper middle class speakers more sociologically defined rather than geographically defined. Queen’s English the monarch’s