TAIWAN OUTLOOK

台灣宏觀電視－「TAIWAN OUTLOOK」瘋台灣Janet 的台灣經驗 Fun Taiwan Janet's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riYu7xdvpoQ&NR=1

The City of Angels

The City of Angels指的是洛杉磯(Los Angeles)。

洛杉磯（Los Angeles）本是西班牙語「天使之城」的意思...1542年，第一批到達這裡的歐洲人，由葡萄牙探險家Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo|João Cabrilho帶領，宣布這個地區是西班牙帝國的天國（the City of God）...

City of Angels也是一部電影，中文名稱為X情人。

class assembly

morning assembly 朝會
weekly assembly 週會
class assembly 班會

20100406 實用空中美語 The Trojan War

Portraits help bring closure to fallen troops' loved ones

Portraits help bring closure to fallen troops' loved ones
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/02/war.portraits/index.html?hpt=C1

Gay teen in prom case is local pariah, national heroine

Gay teen in prom case is local pariah, national heroine
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/26/constance.mcmillen.tension/index.html?hpt=C1


Vocabulary:

1. prom 舞會
   
2. tuxedo 燕尾服
   
3. daunt vt discourage 使膽怯;使畏縮
   
4. throw up vt bring to notice 使引人注意;揭示出
   
5. file suit 提起訴訟
   
6. First Amendments rights
7. attorney=lawyer
8. counsel adviser
   
9. transgender 變性
   
10. by virtue of as a result of; by means of 由於;憑...;藉...
    
11. overarching 總體
    
12. groundswell 風潮
    
13. a poster child
    
14. internship 實習
    
15. outreach
    
16. spoiler
17. stipulate vt state as a necessary condition 提出以...為條件;約定;規定
18. talk trash about
19. shore
20. drawl
21. empower
22. spearhead
23. queer
24. rampant
25. compulsion
26. pariah

Related:
Teen suspended over prom dress

Added On April 1, 2010

An Alabama teen misses her prom because school officials thought her dress was too revealing. WBRC reports.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/04/01/dnt.suspended.over.prom.dress.wbrc
Source:WRBC

Oxford,Alabama
Darrie DeRamus - mother
Trey Holloday - PRINCIPAL, OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL

Grave or tomb?

grave:
tomb:
mausoluem:
cemetery:
graveyard:

http://www.plurk.com/p/4i7ld6