About The Author:
Daphne du Maurier, a English writer who was educated mainly at home, and started to write poems and short stories when she was a child. Her well-known stories has many type, some are historical, and others are more modern. In 1926 traveled to Cornwall, the south-west of England, and fell in love with the place. She lived there for much of the rest of her life. Many of the events in du Maurier's best-known books take place in there. "Rebecca" is one of her most famous books, and "The Bird" is also become a very successful film.
About the Story:
Can a dream tell us the thing about future and give us the opportunity to changing it? This story is about a man's dream. He and his family was going vacation in Tain l'Hermitage, a town in south of France. For day he just drove the car around the town, and he was totally tired. He could think nothing except cars.
This night, he have a dream: He was on a cream-color car which a stranger was driving. They pass a clear road at a hill, in their front was a lorry which blocked the whole road. It drove at the middle of the road. As the stranger wants to drive over the lorry, they realized a woman who selling flower, not rose, it let the man think of death and their final resting place. And the car started to passing it. Then the man just heard a sound like explosion and ... proof! He wake up in a shock.
The man thought this dream was like to bring some massage to him, but he don't know how to explain it. That day, he really drove pass a hill, and his front, was the lorry he dream it last night! He wanted to passing it, as he does, he felt the back of his car was lift up by the lorry, and he saw a woman, sitting outside a small white house with a table of flowers!
Luckily, the man was a skillful driver. He didn't die like he thought. But he didn't pass the lorry. At the moment, he saw a cream-color car, driving toward the lorry and seems like wanted to pass through it. And the driver in there was as skillful as a pro-car racer. Although his car was tough the lorry, but he drift out and passed it. At the end of this story, the man don't really believe in dreams, but, something was saved him from a terrible death.
My Comment:
I don't really believe that dreams can tell us about the future. It is hard to believe. If we can see the future in the dream, then the future was surely exists, then we are not free to act in the ways we wish to, and we are not responsible for our own life.
刹那・F・セイエイ(Setsuna・F・Seiei)
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
My Favourite movie /game /model /animation ----- GUNDAM
Gundam, a robot movie /game /model /animation. Its story was very nice and already have many type of them.
Let's get a view in OO Gundam. Although it was a little old already...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Story Book Review --- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
About the author:
Mary Shelley is a English novelist. She born in 1797 at London. She is the popular poet, Shelley's wife. She was clever and love to learning since her youth. Before 17 years old, she elope with the married Shelley. She wrote 8 novel in her life, the "Frankenstein" at 1818's is the greatest. This novel has opened the gate of the Science fiction novel.
Story Overview:
Captain Robert Walton was sailing on the Artic, the fog there cause his sailor and him to see nothing. When the fog began to lift, one of his man spotted a man who looked terribly ill was on a floating ice. They rescued the man. At first, the man was looked like a madman. Two days later, the man began to speak and he told Walton about his things.
He is Victor Frankenstein, the maker of the monster. He liked to explore the way things worked. He wanted to know the secrets of nature. He went to a university to learn the things which he liked. At the university, he met Professor Waldman, his favorite teacher and good friend. Victor studied and discovered many things with the help of his teacher. Later, he wanted to know the way to let someone death back into life. He soon done the research of this and finally create the "monster".
At first, his creation was not a monster. But its body was very big and his face was very ugly. Victor was scared by it and ran away. The monster's heart was hurt seriously and it really a monster now. It hurt all the people who Victor loved, his brother and his wife, Elizabeth was killed by the monster. Victor swear he will kill the monster by his own hand. He followed the monster to the Artic, but it was too fast and Victor soon lose the sign of it.
Victor was seriously ill and he fainted. When he saw Walton's ship, he made himself row toward the ship and Walton was saved him. After he told all his story to Walton, he knew he will be died soon. So he wanted Walton to help him kill the monster and Walton promised he would. After Victor died, the monster was appear at the ship, it felt very sad to its father death. When Walton wants to kill it, it ran away and disappear from there and nobody had seen it after.
My Comment:
Every living things needs love, no matter his look ugly or not. If you create a thing and give it a life, you must be the first one to love it, and teach it everything. Be a good father is important. If not, it may be a monster and do many things you could never taught it.
Story Overview:
Captain Robert Walton was sailing on the Artic, the fog there cause his sailor and him to see nothing. When the fog began to lift, one of his man spotted a man who looked terribly ill was on a floating ice. They rescued the man. At first, the man was looked like a madman. Two days later, the man began to speak and he told Walton about his things.
He is Victor Frankenstein, the maker of the monster. He liked to explore the way things worked. He wanted to know the secrets of nature. He went to a university to learn the things which he liked. At the university, he met Professor Waldman, his favorite teacher and good friend. Victor studied and discovered many things with the help of his teacher. Later, he wanted to know the way to let someone death back into life. He soon done the research of this and finally create the "monster".
At first, his creation was not a monster. But its body was very big and his face was very ugly. Victor was scared by it and ran away. The monster's heart was hurt seriously and it really a monster now. It hurt all the people who Victor loved, his brother and his wife, Elizabeth was killed by the monster. Victor swear he will kill the monster by his own hand. He followed the monster to the Artic, but it was too fast and Victor soon lose the sign of it.
Victor was seriously ill and he fainted. When he saw Walton's ship, he made himself row toward the ship and Walton was saved him. After he told all his story to Walton, he knew he will be died soon. So he wanted Walton to help him kill the monster and Walton promised he would. After Victor died, the monster was appear at the ship, it felt very sad to its father death. When Walton wants to kill it, it ran away and disappear from there and nobody had seen it after.
My Comment:
Every living things needs love, no matter his look ugly or not. If you create a thing and give it a life, you must be the first one to love it, and teach it everything. Be a good father is important. If not, it may be a monster and do many things you could never taught it.
A word of Ilidian
"...there's someone betrayed, and I was the one who betrayed..."
I think this word was so~ cool.
I think this word was so~ cool.
Vocab List of This Novel
sled (n): 雪橇
choke (v): 哽噎
- a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs
- "There is a sled being pulled by dogs over there!"the man cried.
- travel by boat propelled by wind or by other means
- Not even his life means as much to him as this voyage.
- to be unable to speak normally especially because of strong emotion
- His voice was choking with rage.
- to attract or interest somebody very much
- Walton was fascinated with lightning.
- to say or do something that makes somebody stop what they are doing
- I hope I'm not interrupting you.
- a strong feeling of excitement or pleasure
- It gave me a big thrill to meet my favorite author in person.
- to cry noisily
- I heard a child sobbing loudly.
- in a confused state
- I've been in a complete daze since hearing the news.
- to drop or throw water
- Heavy rain splattered on the roof.
- a large mass of ice, formed by snow on mountains, that moves very slowly down a valley
- I like to sit there and watch the mountain glaciers.
Friday, April 1, 2011
The Red Pony --- Vocabulary
- yard: n. an area outside a building, usually with a hard surface and a surrounding wall 院子
- strangles: v. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air 勒死
- buzzard: n. a bird that kills other creatures for food 欧洲猛禽
- wagon: n. any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse 马车
- barn: n. a large farm building for storing grain or keeping animals in 谷仓
- hay: n. grass that has been cut and dried and is used as food for animals （用作饲料的）干草
- cypress: n. wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus 柏树
- quartz: n. a hard mineral, that is used to make very accurate clocks and watches 石英
- porch: n. a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance 走廊
- tub: n. a large round container without a lid, used for growing plants in, etc. 盆
- stern: adj. serious and often disapproving; expecting somebody to obey you 严厉的
Examples
- The children were playing in the yard at the front of the school.
- He tried to strangle his opponent.
- American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard.
- A wagon rumbled over the ground.
- They live in a converted barn.
- The hay in the barn is for my horses.
- Cypress and redwood are seldom used in the superstructure of commercial greenhouses.
- Quartz is a major carrier of gold in quartz vein deposit.
- An old lady was sitting on the porch of a hotel.
- There were tubs of flowers on the balcony.
- The police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)