2015年4月9日 星期四

Week 7 青少年小說

Get Met It Pays



man- hand, make


manipulate
[muh-nip-yuh-leyt] 
verb (used with object), manipulated, manipulating.
1.
to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner:
to manipulate people's feelings.
2.
to handle, manage, or use, especially with skill, in some process of treatment or performance:
to manipulate a large tractor.
3.
to adapt or change (accounts, figures, etc.) to suit one's purpose or advantage.
4.
Medicine/Medical. to examine or treat by skillful use of the hands, as in palpation, reduction of dislocations, or changing the position of a fetus.

manufacture
[man-yuh-fak-cher] 
noun
1.
the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale:
the manufacture of television sets.
2.
the making or producing of anything; generation:
the manufacture of body cells.
3.
the thing or material manufactured; product:
Plastic is an important manufacture.
verb (used with object), manufactured, manufacturing.
4.
to make or produce by hand or machinery, especially on a large scale.
5.
to work up (material) into form for use:
to manufacture cotton.
6.
to invent fictitiously; fabricate; concoct:
to manufacture an account of the incident.
7.
to produce in a mechanical way without inspiration or originality:
to manufacture a daily quota of poetry.

Hermitage Museum




The State Hermitage (Russian: Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж; IPA: [gəsʊˈdarstvʲɪnɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ], Gosudarstvenny Ermitazh) is amuseum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest[2][3] and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items,[4] including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.

大藏寶家 

The Monuments Men





Enter game, program

Participate X  awkward

Se- apart from


segregate
[v. seg-ri-geyt; n. seg-ri-git, -geyt] 
verb (used with object), segregated, segregating.
1.
to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate:
to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
2.
to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.
verb (used without object), segregated, segregating.
3.
to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
4.
to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
5.
Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.
noun
6.
a segregated thing, person, or group.



select
[si-lekt] 
verb (used with object)
1.
to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
verb (used without object)
2.
to make a choice; pick.
adjective
3.
chosen in preference to another or others; selected.
Synonyms: preferred.
4.
choice; of special value or excellence.
5.
careful or fastidious in selecting; discriminating.
6.
carefully or fastidiously chosen; exclusive:
a select group of friends.

separate
[v. sep-uh-reyt; adj., n. sep-er-it] 
verb (used with object), separated, separating.
1.
to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space:
to separate two fields by a fence.
2.
to put, bring, or force apart; part:
to separate two fighting boys.
3.
to set apart; disconnect; dissociate:
to separate church and state.
4.
to remove or sever from association, service, etc., especially legally or formally:
He was separated from the army right after V-E Day.
5.
to sort, part, divide, or disperse (an assemblage, mass, compound, etc.), as into individual units, components, or elements.
6.
to take by parting or dividing; extract (usually followed by from or out):
to separate metal from ore.
7.
Mathematics. to write (the variables of a differential equation) in a form in which the differentials of the independent and dependent variables are, respectively, functions of these variables alone:
We can separate the variables to solve the equation.

Compare separation of variables.
Anna Helene Paquin (/ˈpækwɪn/; born 24 July 1982)
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 is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress.[1][2] Her first film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in March 1994 at the age of 11, making her the second youngest winner in Oscar history.[3] She later appeared in a number of successful films, including Fly Away Home, She's All That, Almost Famous, and the X-Men franchise as Rogue from Marvel Comics.

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.
The Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998).

Helena Bonham Carter CBE

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(born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before her debut film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films, such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, The King's Speech, and playing Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series. She has frequently collaborated with director Tim Burton, in films Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. In 2012, she played Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, and Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables.

A two-time Academy Award nominee for her performances as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove and as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in The King's Speech, Bonham Carter's acting has been further recognised with seven Golden Globe nominations, an International Emmy Award for best actress, three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year honours list for services to drama,[1][2] and received the honour from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 2012.[3]

In January 2014, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Bonham Carter had been appointed to Britain's new national Holocaust Commission.[4]

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