(台北校區/通識教育中心) English Park
I. News Path–新聞步道
拜登立場堅定，民主黨繼續支持/「明天，我殺了你：」獲救人質描述了哈馬斯被囚禁期間遭受的心理虐待/去北韓參加夏令營是什麼樣的體驗/接受豬腎移植和心臟幫浦的婦女過世/臺灣前副總理因腐敗指控被拘留/日本警告稱，中國在臺灣附近的軍事演習緊張局勢加劇/國民黨政客在台北開車撞2名行人/過去一周報告了99例COVID死亡病例
II. News Vocabulary
1.critical 關鍵的
2.agonizing 十分痛苦的
3.hostage 人質
4.captivity 囚禁
5.Republic 共和國
6.arranging 整理
7.transplant 移植
8.kidney 腎臟
III VCR Observatory–影像觀景台
VoiceTube－不必花大錢 就能看影片學英語
人們常掛嘴邊的「愛」到底是什麼？看看孩子們怎麼回答/其實，大家都不「正常」
IV Wisdom Woods–智慧森林
1.“Travel far enough you meet yourself.”
走得足夠遠，你就會遇上自己。
2.“Above all, don’t lie to yourself.”
最重要的是不要欺騙自己。
3.“Light tomorrow with today.”
用現在點亮未來。
V. Singing River–吟唱河流
At My Worst / It’s
Ok If You Forget Me
I.
News Path
Democrats keep piling on as Biden stands firm
World
President Joe Biden’s critical news conference didn’t end his reelection
campaign on Thursday night. But it showed why it will be so hard for him to
save it. Biden endured his latest agonizing, public test of cognition as he
faces a growing torrent of calls from Democrats, worried that he’s destined to
lose to former President Donald Trump, to step aside.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/12/politics/biden-democrats-2024-analysis/index.html
‘Tomorrow,
I kill you:’ Rescued hostage details psychological abuse during eight months of
Hamas captivity
World
When the Gaza sunshine was at its hottest, Andrey Kozlov said the Hamas
fighters would cover him with blankets, leaving him to stew in his sweat. When
he asked about his family, they would say they had forgotten him. When they pulled
the blindfold from his eyes, they said they would kill him and film his murder.
What it’s like to go to summer camp in North Korea
World
Even for locals, travel inside the isolated nation officially known as the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is heavily restricted. But arranging a
trip was much easier for Russian national Yuri Frolov, 25, who spent two weeks
in the hermit kingdom as a high-school student in 2015 and 2016.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/north-korea-summer-camp-intl-hnk/index.html
Woman who received pig kidney transplant and heart pump
dies
World
Lisa Pisano, the first person to receive a mechanical heart pump as well
as a gene-edited pig kidney, died Sunday, according to NYU Langone Health,
where she had the surgery. Pisano received the transplant on April 12, but the
organ failed due to limited blood flow and was removed May 29.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/09/health/heart-pump-pig-kidney-transplant-death/index.html
Former Taiwan vice
premier detained over corruption charges
National
The Taoyuan District Court ruled to detain former Vice Premier Cheng
Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) incommunicado on Thursday (July
11). Cheng, who resigned as chair of the Straits Exchange Foundation on Sunday
(July 7), is under investigation for corruption during his tenure as Taoyuan
mayor from Dec. 2014 to Dec. 2022, per CNA. Prosecutors have yet to release
further information on the charges.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5900497
Japan warns of rising
tension over China’s military drills near Taiwan
National
Japan warned on July 12 that China risked escalating tension with Taiwan,
with an increase in military exercises that appeared aimed in part at readying
Beijing’s forces for a possible invasion of the democratically governed island.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5900549
KMT politician drives
into 2 pedestrians in Taipei
Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Lai Shyh-bao (賴士葆) accidentally hit two pedestrians with his car on Tuesday (July 9),
resulting in hospitalizations for both. According to the police, at 9 p.m.
while driving his SUV on Ruian Street in Da’an District, Lai failed to yield to
pedestrians while making a left turn, per CNA.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5899978
Taiwan reports 99 COVID
deaths over past week
National
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Tuesday (July 9) reported 99
deaths from COVID, a 54.68% increase from the previous week. There were also
987 new severe COVID cases from July 2 - 8, a 5.9% increase from last week.
Individuals aged 65 and above account for 79% of the severe cases and 90% of
the deaths.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5899674
II. News Vocabulary(上述新聞標題與短文的單字補充)
1.critical 關鍵的
2.agonizing 十分痛苦的
3.hostage 人質
4.captivity 囚禁
5.Republic 共和國
6.arranging 整理
7.transplant 移植
8.kidney 腎臟
9.corruption 腐敗
10.incommunicado 單獨行動
11. aimed 瞄準
12.escalating 升級
13.Kuomintang 國民黨
14.yield 讓於
15.previous 上一個
III. VoiceTube
人們常掛嘴邊的「愛」到底是什麼？看看孩子們怎麼回答(Love Lesson | Life's Big Questions
Unscripted)
初級
https://tw.voicetube.com/videos/22160
其實，大家都不「正常」(No One is Normal)
中級
https://tw.voicetube.com/videos/49490
IV. Wisdom Woods
English proverbs and sayings full of humor and wisdom
1.“Travel far enough you
meet yourself.”
走得足夠遠，你就會遇上自己。
2.“Above
all, don’t lie to yourself.”
最重要的是不要欺騙自己。
3.“Light
tomorrow with today.”
用現在點亮未來。
4.“Don’t compare your life with others. There’s no
comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it’s their time.”
別拿你的人生和別人的比較。太陽和月亮沒有可比性。它們都在屬於自己的時刻發光。
5.“I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday
and love today.”
我不害怕明天，因為我經歷過昨天，也熱愛今天。
https://tw.amazingtalker.com/blog/zh-tw/zh-eng/32479/
V. Singing River
“At My Worst” By Pink Sweat$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CEJoCr_9UI&t=16s
Can I call you baby?
可以叫妳寶貝嗎
Can you be my friend?
我們可以當朋友嗎
Can you be my lover up until
the very end?
妳願意當我的終身伴侶嗎
Let me show you love, oh I
don’t pretend
我從不假裝，讓我表達對妳的愛
Stick by my side even when
the world is givin’ in (Yeah)
就算末日來臨也請待在我身旁
Oh, oh, oh, don’t
喔不～
Don’t you worry
妳別擔心
I’ll be there, whenever you
want me
妳需要我的時候，我就會出現
I need somebody who can love
me at my worst
我需要一個在我低潮時期也愛我的人
Know I’m not perfect but I hope
you see my worth
我不完美但希望妳能看見我的好
‘Cause it’s only you, nobody new, I put you first
因為妳是我的唯一和第一
And for you, girl, I swear
I’ll do the worst
為了妳，我什麼都願意
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
If you stay forever, let me
hold you hand
若妳願意永遠在我身旁，我會緊緊牽著妳
I can fill those places in
your heart no one else can
我會填補妳內心誰也無法替代的空缺
Let me show you love, oh I
don’t pretend (Yeah)
我從不假裝，讓我表達對妳的愛
I’ll be right here, baby, you
know I’ll sink or swim
我會陪著妳，寶貝，我已經無法自拔
Oh, oh, oh, don’t
喔～不
Don’t you worry
妳別擔心
I’ll be there, whenever you
want me
妳需要我的時候，我就會出現
I need somebody who can love
me at my worst
我需要一個在我低潮時期也愛我的人
Know I’m not perfect but I
hope you see my worth
我不完美但希望妳能看見我的好
‘Cause it’s only you, nobody new, I put you first
因為妳是我的唯一和第一
And for you, girl, I swear
I’ll do the worst
為了妳，我什麼都願意
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
I need somebody who can love
me at my worst
我需要一個在我低潮時期也愛我的人
Know I’m not perfect but I
hope you see my worth
我不完美但希望妳能看見我的好
‘Cause it’s only you, nobody new, I put you first
因為妳是我的唯一和第一
And for you, girl, I swear
I’ll do the worst
為了妳，我什麼都願意
https://shhhhbequiet.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/at-my-worst-pink-sweat/
“It’s Ok If You Forget Me” By Astrid S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0naRXbQQ838&t=169s
Two
weeks and I wait ‘til the feeling hits
苦等兩星期，強烈感受襲來
Maybe
I just haven’t let it sink in
也許是因為我拒絕感受
For
three years we were living together
同居的日子也過了三年
Held
me like you’d hold me forever
你抱著我像是永不鬆手
Didn’t
think that heartbreak would feel like this
從未想過心痛是這般感受
From
everything to nothing at all
從擁有一切到消失殆盡
From
every day to never at all
從每一天到毫無聯繫
And
everyone says that I should be sad
每個人不斷告訴我，我應該感到悲傷
Is it
normal that:
但這樣正常嗎
I
don’t feel sorry for myself
我不為自己感到遺憾
Care
if your hands touch somebody else
也不在乎你是否和其他人親密接觸
Wouldn’t
get jealous if you’re happy
也不會嫉妒你快樂生活
It’s
ok if you forget me
若忘了我也沒差
I
don’t feel empty now that you’re gone
我不會因為你的離開而感到空虛寂寞
Does
that mean it didn’t mean nothing all?
這代表一切都無所謂了嗎
But
I’ll tell you what the worst is
讓我告訴你最糟的是
It’s
the way it doesn’t hurt
這是抹除心痛的方法
When I
wish it did
但我卻希望能感受到心痛
Patience
is a thing that I’ve learnt from you
你教會了我要有耐心
That
some things can feel wrong even though they’re true
某些事即便是事實但仍然讓人感到不對勁
Went
through all the hard times together
一起度過各種難關
Kept
me calm when I’d lose my temper
當我快要失去理智時，讓我保持冷靜
I’m
just really grateful that I had you
我很感謝曾經有你陪在我身旁
From
everything to nothing at all
從擁有一切到消失殆盡
From
every day to never at all
從每一天到毫無聯繫
And
everyone says that I should be sad
每個人不斷告訴我，我應該感到悲傷
Is it
normal that:
但這樣正常嗎
I
don’t feel sorry for myself
我不為自己感到遺憾
Care
if your hands touch somebody else
也不在乎你是否和其他人親密接觸
Wouldn’t
get jealous if you’re happy
也不會嫉妒你快樂生活
It’s
ok if you forget me
若忘了我也沒差
I
don’t feel empty now that you’re gone
我不會因為你的離開而感到空虛寂寞
Does
that mean it didn’t mean nothing all?
這代表一切都無所謂了嗎
But
I’ll tell you what the worst is
讓我告訴你最糟的是
It’s
the way it doesn’t hurt
這是抹除心痛的方法
When I
wish it did
但我卻希望能感受到心痛
From
everything to nothing at all
從擁有一切到消失殆盡
From
every day to never at all
從每一天到毫無聯繫
And
everyone says that I should be sad
每個人不斷告訴我，我應該感到悲傷
Is it
normal that:
但這樣正常嗎
I
don’t feel sorry for myself
我不為自己感到遺憾
Care
if your hands touch somebody else
也不在乎你是否和其他人親密接觸
Wouldn’t
get jealous if you’re happy
也不會嫉妒你快樂生活
It’s
ok if you forget me
若忘了我也沒差
I
don’t feel empty now that you’re gone
我不會因為你的離開而感到空虛寂寞
Does
that mean it didn’t mean nothing all?
這代表一切都無所謂了嗎
But
I’ll tell you what the worst is
讓我告訴你最糟的是
It’s
the way it doesn’t hurt
這是抹除心痛的方法
When I
wish it did
但我卻希望能感受到心痛
https://shhhhbequiet.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/its-ok-if-you-forget-me-astrid-s/
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