個人喜愛度：★★★★★
so to speak 可以說；所謂
contention 爭吵；爭執；爭論, （尤指爭論時的）看法，觀點
squander 浪費
ruthlessly 無情
Nativity 耶穌誕生
gold, frankincense and myrhh 黃金、乳香、沒藥
stigmatize 污衊
high-water mark 高水位線；(事業等的)頂峰；頂點
disembodied 脫離肉體的
discotheque 迪斯科舞廳
writhe 扭曲；扭動身體
engulf 包圍；吞沒；淹沒
protracted 延長的；拖延的；持久的
UNESCO 聯合國教科文組織
kinesthetically 動覺的
corpus callosum 胼胝體
raft 筏；救生艇；大量
the phone's on the hook
chestnut 栗子
prompted by 引起；激起
fidgeting 坐立不安
ADHD 注意力不足過動症
Rachel Carson 致力於環境保護
strip-mine 是指把露出頭的礦從地表開挖，不用挖坑道。
Jonas Salk 小兒麻痺疫苗發明家
avert 防止,避免
What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong.
"If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
Jonas Salk: "If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."
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