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1. expenditure (n.) [ɪkˈspendɪtʃər]
money spent by a government, organization, or person;the use of time, money, energy, etc. doing something.
EX: Is Rome worth such expenditure of lives?
2. trudge (v.) [trʌdʒ]
to walk with slow heavy steps, especially because you are tired or it is difficult to walk
EX: We trudged home through the snow.
3. scathing (a.) [ˋskeðɪŋ]
a scathing remark criticizes someone or something very severely
EX: The scathing editorial simply boils down to an exercise in partisan politics.
4. subtle (adj.) [ˈsʌt(ə)l]
not obvious, and therefore difficult to notice.
EX: The subtle variation of the rhythm is not the only problem faced by translator.
5. compensate (v.) [ˈkɑmpənˌseɪt]
to pay someone money because they have suffered an injury or loss.
EX: They must also try to compensate.
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*Aeneid*
The Aeneid tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines indactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.
The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy
sufficiency 足夠的
dificient - away from
smirking 假笑 傻笑
treaty 條約 in treaty with 和...交涉中
welled up (n) 井 (v) 湧出泉水
pyre 火堆
lament 哀悼
Attention 立正
At ease 稍息
Dismiss 解散
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