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The Adventure of the Noble Bechelor

The Adventure of the Noble Bechelor. 組員： 陳棟鈞 胡家瑋 葉承瑋 周明憲 陳建宇 姚廷穎. Passage.

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The Adventure of the Noble Bechelor

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  1. The Adventure of the Noble Bechelor 組員： 陳棟鈞 胡家瑋 葉承瑋 周明憲 陳建宇 姚廷穎

  2. Passage • I had hoped,” suggested Holmes, “that you would have joined us in a friendly supper.” “I think that there you ask a little too much,” responded his Lordship. “I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a very good-night.” He included us all in a sweeping bow and stalked “

  3. Passage • “By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate enough to find the loving couple at home.”(p.130)

  4. California Gold Rush “Her father is very rich?” “He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope.” “And how did he make his money?” “In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds.”

  5. The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought—mostly by sailing ships and covered wagons—some 300,000 gold-seekers (called "forty-niners", as in "1849") to California. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush also attracted some tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

  6. To meet the demands of the arrivals, ships bearing goods from around the world came to San Francisco as well.

  7. 49ers Forty-niners came from Latin America, particularly from the Mexican mining districts near Sonora and Chile.Gold-seekers and merchants from Asia, primarily from China, began arriving in 1849, at first in modest numbers to Gum San ("Gold Mountain"), the name given to California in Chinese.The first immigrants from Europe, reeling from the effects of the Revolutions of 1848 and with a longer distance to travel, began arriving in late 1849, mostly from France,with some Germans, Italians, and Britons.Most of these national groups arrived from seafaring, coastal regions.

  8. The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team located in the San Francisco Bay Area

  9. Nobility p.121 Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral…….The Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affair. They inherit Plantagenent blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side.

  10. Nobility Royal and noble ranks • Duke 公爵 • Marquess侯爵 • Earl伯爵 • Viscount子爵(p.126 Trafalgar Square) • Baron男爵 公爵、侯爵、伯爵的兒子稱之為「Lord」，間接提及時可用「Lord+姓」、「Lord+地名」。唯有長子可以繼承貴族頭銜。

  11. Duke Marquess Earl Viscount Baron

  12. Plantagenent dynasty Tudor dynasty (Anjor dynasty)金雀花王朝 都鐸王朝

  13. Vocabulary • Lord 勛爵(勳爵) P.121頁 拉法葉侯爵 威廉王子 查爾斯王子

  14. Vocabulary 2. easy-chair 安樂椅 P.121頁中間

  15. Vocabulary 3. quill pen 鵝毛筆 P.121頁右下

  16. Vocabulary • Grizzled (p.123) • Ivory ( p.124)

  17. Vocabulary • khaki  卡其色 • Beige 米黃色 • Azure 蔚藍色 • Teal 藍綠色 • Silver screen 銀幕 螢幕 • Red • Orange • Yellow • Green • Blue • indigo • Purple

  18. Vocabulary -buzz (p.128) • 嗡嗡叫、唧唧響 • Did the alarm clock buzz? • I'll buzz you in. • 匆忙行走，忙亂 • I saw the boss buzzing out of his office.  • Buzz off 走開(祈使) • Just buzz off and leave me alone.

  19. Vocabulary -distaff side (p.122) • He is my uncle on the distaff side. • He is my uncle ,Mr. Chen. • He is my mother’s brother.

  20. question • Why the Lord St. Simon would not mind the event before ? • Why Hay moulton,the bride in this story,didn't marry her true lover, Frank moulton, from the beginning ? Why she had to wait for him so long that brought about the bad ending of this marriage with Lord St.Simon? • Why the story nationality of roles is either the USA or UK? Extension: What's the relation at the time between the USA and UK? • Did he really love her?Or he just wants money? • If you are the woman , would you choose Lord St. Simon or Frank? Why?

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