2010專八人文知識必背

26. Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins
尼爾。阿姆斯特朗、埃德溫。奧爾德林、邁克爾?？铝炙?br /> 27. The title of the national anthem 國歌 of Canada is O Canada. 此種類型題同學們可自己多找?guī)讉€國家。
28. Henry David Thoreau's work, Walden, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
29. etymology: the history of a word. 詞源學
30. The dominant accent in the United States is General American. 除紐約市、南方、新英格蘭

31. John Lennon is a member of the band of Beatles 披頭士或甲殼蟲樂隊in the 1960s.
32. In Gulliver's Travels格列佛游記， Jonathan Swift describes the island of the Houyhnhnms as the world's most perfect society. 有理智和人性的馬 Houyhnhnms are horses in fact.
33. Ceoffrey Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales in fourteenth century.
34. morpheme: A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts. 詞素， 一種含有一個單詞的有意義的語言單位，如 -ed在單詞 walked中，不能被劃分為更小的有意義單位
35. The name of the famous stadium露天體育場 in the north of London is Wembley.

36. Wimbledon溫布爾登[英國英格蘭東南部城市]（位于倫敦附近， 是著名的國際網(wǎng)球比賽地）
37. Toad in the hole is a Traditional English recipe食譜， originating from Yorkshire, a county in the north of England. 烤面拖牛肉，面拖烤香腸
38. Boycott: To act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion（強制）。 聯(lián)合抵制， 聯(lián)合起來拒絕使用、購買或經(jīng)銷以示抗議、不滿或作為強制的手段
39. Segregation: The policy and practice of imposing the social separation of races, as in schools, housing, and industry, especially so as to practice discrimination against people of color in a predominantly white society. 種族隔離， 強制實行種族的社會分離政策及實踐，如在學校、居住和工業(yè)中，尤指在白人居多的社會中實行有色人種歧視的政策
40. Apartheid: An official policy of racial segregation practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites. 種族隔離制， 南非共和國實行的一種官方的種族隔離政策，包括在政治、法律和經(jīng)濟諸方面對非白色人種的歧視。

41. Integration: The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation. 種族或宗教融合， 在社會或組織中，使不同的種族或宗教派別的人處于無限制的平等的關(guān)系中；取消種族隔離
42. The majority of French-speaking Canadians live in Quebec.
43. Sir Thomas More coined the word “Utopia”， it means nowhere land in Greek.
44. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their indestructible spirit.
45. Phoneme: any one of the set of smallest distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word from another 音位，音素， 語言中最小的語音單位，如英語里 mat中的 m和 bat中的 b

46. polysemy: 一詞多義
47. patron saint：保護圣徒， 守護神
48. Parentese: 父母語
49. back formation: 逆構(gòu)詞 脫落一詞的詞綴以構(gòu)成新詞 typewriter → typewrite
50. allomorph: Any of the variant forms of a morpheme. For example, the phonetic s of cats, z of dogs, and z of horses and the en of oxen are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme. 語素變體， 語素的一種變體形式，如語音學的中之 s在 cats中，z在 dogs中，和 iz在 horses中，還有 en在 oxen中都是英語復數(shù)語素的語素變體。