I, Me, Myself

有聽過 westlife 的 uptown girl 嗎？
(其實是1983年 Billy Joel 先發行，他們是翻唱)
開頭的歌詞是這樣唱的：
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she never had a back street guy
I bet her mama never told her why 

昨天去上輔導課的時候，
我讓學生練習「使用」語言，
練習的型式很簡單：

◎ 請用英文解釋下列各單字：
　 1. watch：____________

大家應該都還記得陳之藩《哲學家皇帝》裡面，
提到愛因斯坦說「專家只不過是一隻訓練有素的狗」，
但其實原文並不完全如此......

It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquires an understanding of and a lively feeling for values. He must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise he—-with his specialized knowledge—-more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow-men and to the community. 

今年的三月二十三號是什麼節日有人知道嗎？
答案是復活節（Easter），
若不是基督教或天主教教徒（或英文老師orz），
大概沒什麼人會知道這個節日吧？(囧)

簡單介紹一下復活節：

各項運動器材或健身房相關的英文：

1. chest pull 彈簧擴展器
2. dumbbell 啞鈴
3. aero bike 有氧健身車
4. butterfly 健臂

歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）

Singer: Randy Travis
Songwriter: Don Schlitz and Randy Travis
Released: January 1991
BPM: 136 (Vivace)

歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）

Singer: The Calling
Songwriter: Alex Band and Aaron Kamin
Released: May 22, 2001
BPM: 112 (Allegro)

英語歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）

＊I'm free to be whatever I
　Whatever I choose
　And I'll sing the blues if I want

Title: Music fans turn up volume of legal downloads
中譯：樂迷合法下載量增多

Music fans worldwide downloaded 420 million songs legally over the Internet in 2005, a 20-fold increase from two years ago, research showed. Record labels reaped a 1.1-billion-dollar harvest from digital downloads, up from 380 million dollars the previous year, with about 40 percent of this revenue earned from music for mobile phones. The research, published by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry,came a day after Apple Computer reported a 95-percent rise in quarterly profits. Apple kickstarts the legal download industry with its sleek iPod music player and its iTunes website, a library of songs that can be downloaded legally. The success of sites such as iTunes has helped the music industry to make money from the Internet, which was previously dominated by illegal file-swapping sites such as Napster and Kazaa.

研究指出，全球音樂迷2005年在網路上合法下載4億2千萬首歌曲，兩年來增加了20倍。唱片業者從數位下載獲得11億美元的收益，前一年則有3億8千萬美元，這項收益約4成是從手機音樂賺來的。國際唱片業交流基金會（IFPI）的這份研究，是在蘋果電腦宣布季獲利成長95%的隔天發表。蘋果以時髦的iPod音樂播放器與可合法下載樂曲的iTunes網站，開創合法下載業。iTunes等網站的成功，有助音樂工業從網路賺錢，過去網路被Napster與Kazaa等違法檔案交換網站主導。

英語歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）
 
You used to talk to me like
I was the only one around.
You used to lean on me like
The only other choice was falling down.

英語歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）

Singer(s): Backstreet Boys
Songwriter(s): Max Martin, Rami and Lisa Miskovsky
Released: October 2, 2000
BPM: 96 (Andante)
Last Edited: 2022.04

英語歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）
 
Love me tender, love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so

英語歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）
 
Are you lonesome tonight?
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a bright summer day

英語歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）

Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow

歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）

I used to think
I had the answers to everything,
But now I know
Life doesn't always go my way, yeah...

歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）
 
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days,
Thursday, Friday, Happy Days,
Saturday, what a day,

英語歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）

Singer(s): Hugh Grant And Haley Bennett
Songwriter(s): Adam Schlesinger
Released: February 13, 2007 (movie OST)
BPM: 102 (Moderato)
Last Edited: 2022.04

歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）
 
首先，我要介紹一下這首歌，
它其實是從一齣音樂劇中節錄出來的，
劇名是：A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum，
點進連結有 wiki 大神的詳細介紹，

歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）
 
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have

歌曲教學（按英文文法主題式排列）
 
Let me sail, let me sail, let the Orinoco flow,
Let me reach, let me beach on the shores of Tripoli.
Let me sail, let me sail, let me crash upon your shore,
Let me reach, let me beach far beyond the Yellow Sea.