Feedbacks and Oops (01/05/2005)

[Wayne]

Feedbacks and Oops (01/05/2005)

【Wayne's Feedback】
I was surprised there were 16 of us in this evening's meeting. I'd like to thank those who came to our club activity: (in alphabetical order) Alex, Arthur, Josef, Julian, Julin, Laura, Meg, Riva, Rory, Terry, Una, Zoe Yang, and newcomers Andy, Katherine, and May.

【Arthur's feedback】這個題目(Parting)應該分三次討論。

【Vocabulary】
somewhere along the line：在人生的某一時刻
have been bereft of：痛失(親屬) {bereave – bereft – bereft}
dispute：爭執
irreconcilable differences：無法妥協的歧見
in style：有風度地
reluctantly：心不甘情不願地
got laid off：被裁員
cope with：應付，妥善處理
know of：知道
A walks out on B：(男/女之間)A離棄B
A cheats on B：(男/女之間)A不忠於B
trauma：創傷
face the fact：面對現實
reciprocated：回報
indulge：縱容；放任；寵壞
資遣費[離職金]：severance pay
氣氛：atmosphere
樂觀的：optimistic
悲觀的：pessimistic

【Oops】
1. I quit my (previous) job TO CURRENT JOB. (X)
I quit my (previous) job AND FOUND MY CIRRENT JOB. (O)

2. AFTER half a year (X)
six months LATER (O)

3. I didn't find my boyfriend CHEATING me. (X)
I didn't find my boyfriend CHEATING ON me. (O)

4. Her boyfriend didn’t want to MARRY. (X)
Her boyfriend didn’t want to MARRY HER. (O)

5. the other important QUESTION is... (X)
the other [/another] important PROBLEM [/ISSUE/REASON] is... (O)

6. TRACING the girls (X)
CHASING [/COURTING/DATING] the girls (O)

7. Do you have no religion? － YES, I have no religion. (X)
Do you have no religion? － NO, I have no religion. (O)

8. If I very VERY love my husband (X)
If I love my husband very much (O)

9. I HAVE LOST my grandfather when I was in senior high school. (X)
I LOST my grandfather when I was in senior high school. (O)

10. Speaking English is my INTERESTING. (X)
Speaking English is my INTEREST. (O)

【分手名言】

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. -- Washington Irving 華盛頓．歐文：《睡谷傳奇》(Sleepy Hollow)作者
愛永不落空。如果得不到回報，它會回流，並軟化潔淨這顆心。

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Anonymous (佚名)
愛始於微笑，在吻中成長，以眼淚告終。

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. -- Kahlil Gibran 紀伯倫：《先知》 (The Prophet) 作者
眾所周知：愛到分離方知情深。

The hottest love has the coldest end. -- Socrates (蘇格拉底)
熱戀到頭來是一場空。

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. -- Margaret Mitchell 瑪格麗特．米契爾《飄》/《亂世佳人》(Gone with the Wind) 作者
我絕不是一個有耐性的人，強把碎片再用膠黏合，再告訴自己，補好後又完美如新。碎者碎矣－－我寧可記得它從前在最完美時刻的樣子，而不願終身看到補好了的碎片。

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. -- Otomo No Yakamochi 大伴家持《萬葉集》編者(日本詩人)
寧可在夢中見不到你，也不願醒來時想去握你的手卻發現這是一場虛幻。

[Roger]

Bravo, Wayne. This is what we need.
By constant practice and error-correction can we make progress in learning English.

PS. For item 7. I guess "No, ..." should be the one you wanna say, rihgt?

[Wayne]

Roger, thank you so much for correcting my own mistake.

I've corrected it.