Aesop : A不發音，e發/ɪ/，o發/ə/ 的音。
拉丁文字，兩母音或兩個子音，前不發音
a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.
Myth: a story about superhuman beings of an earlier age taken by preliterate society to be a true account, usually
of how natural phenomena, social customs.
Legend: An unverifiable story handed down from earlier times, or a modern story that presents similar
characteristics; used in medieval times when telling the life story of a saint.
Folklore: the study of the traditions of a particular people in custom, song, story, belief, etc.
Men are apt to condemn in others the very things they do themselves.
When you choose allies, look to their power as well as their will to help you.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to
get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.
Link
List of Fairy Tales
Myth& Metaphor
Aesopica Aesop's Fables in English
Aesop's Fables Index
John Denver-Today
I cant be contented with yesterdays glory
vine & wine
Vine is the plant on which grapes grow.
Wine is the alcohol drink produced from the grapes that grow on the vine.
Iambic Tetrameter : is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet.
vocabulary
1. dandy: a man excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance 花花公子
2. coy:shy 羞怯
3. vegetable love 不斷滋長的愛
4. spare: To refrain from harming, injuring, destroying, or killing 饒了
5. trump 被看下來的東西
6. ram 羊
7. hound 狗
8. be apt to 習慣於
9. -al 名詞結尾
Quiz
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