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23 Premethes
* 課文圖像筆記:
The Champion of
Humankind
A Titan known as Prometheus created human beings
out of cray w
• Epimetheus give animal speed, strength, fur, and wings.
• By the time he
gifts. To make
•
got
up
gave them fire.
to humans, he had run out of
for their weaker state, Prometheus
Prometheus tricked Zeus for the benefit of
humans. He slaughtered a bull and created
two offerings.
A pile of beef hidden inside a bull's stomach.
A pile of bones covered in fat.
• Zeus chose the second one and ended
.
.
but bones. only
up
with nothing
Angry about being tricked, Zeus took fire away from
humankind.
n
They had to live in caves and fell victim to wild beasts.
Prometheus took a stalk of Senre), lit its hollow center
with fire that he had stolen from sun, and
humans.
↓ 茴香莖
• Zeus punished the Titan by banishing him to
to the east.
gave
it to
place far
• There, Prometheus was chained to a rock, and an
sent by Zeus fed on Promethes's liver.
.
He came to be known in later centuries as the
"
Champion of Humankind"
> 故事大意: 普羅米修斯因欺騙宙斯和盜火給人類,
而受宙斯鎖住,被老廢啄食
→普羅米修斯使人類發展得以文明
註:
eagle
Prometheus 普羅米修斯
Zeus

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句型片語
*
.
humankind in)
humanity (n)
* universe (n) 宇宙
=
重點單字/生難字
universal (a.)普遍的
* fur (n)
fur)毛皮
* enable (v)使...能夠
enable S. to do sth.
使某人能夠做某事
*apright (adv)直立地/19)直立的
sit upright 直立坐著
upright position 直立位置
generous (a.)慷慨的
It is/was generous of sb. to do sth.
give sb. the benefit of
the doubt
姑且相信某人,
把...往好處想
benefit (n) 福利
benefit (v) ...he
benefit Iv)
= benefit from
benefivia (a) V
* slaughter (v)
(1)屠殺
slaughterhouse (n) 屠宰場
* underneath prep.) #... 17
underneath it all
be a generous to a fault 極度慷慨 * freeze(v)受凍
generosity (n) 慷慨
show generosity to sb. 對某人表達慷慨
* conflict in)
come into conflict
freeze to death
freeze over
freeze (v)靜止,不動
conflict between the two (...)/ A and B
a conflict of interest 利益衡突 *victim(n)受害者
conflict (v)想法抵觸
A conflict with B.
* distribution (n)分配、分布
distribution (n) 經銷
distribute (v)分發、分配
be distribute o被分配給
* benefit in)
be of great benefit to sb.
對某人有很大的益處
* miserable (a.) 17
= tragic (a.)悲慘的
misery (4)
misery of poverty
貧窮的慘況
make one's life a
misery 使某人痛苦
*furious (0)暴怒的
be furious at
憤怒
對...感到