Lollapalooza (續：大人物 君王 單字大集合)

 



 





Portraits of Mary show that she had a small, well-shaped head, a long, graceful neck, bright auburn hair, hazel-brown eyes, under heavy lowered eyelids and finely arched brows, smooth lustrous skin, a high forehead, and regular, firm features. 



While not a beauty in the classical sense, she was an extremely pretty child who would become a strikingly attractive woman. In fact, her effect on the men with whom she later came into contact was certainly that of a beautiful woman.





Despite the fact that Mary was tall for her age (she attained an adult height of 5 feet 11 inches, which would have made her almost a giant in the sixteenth century) and fluent in speech, while Henry II's son and heir Francis was abnormally short and stuttered, Henry commented that "from the very first day they met, my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time" 



On 24 April 1558 Mary married the Dauphin Francis at Notre Dame de Paris, Francis assuming the title King consort of Scots. When Henry II died on 10 July 1559, Mary, Queen of Scots, became Queen consort of France; her husband becoming Francis II of France.









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          1.    非常出色的人 (或物)





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wunderkind

This emotionally draining film is a complete change of pace for Danish wunderkind Lars Von Trier,

mogul 

Soon Diana meets somebody more attractive: public relations [mogul] Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey).

magnate 

The wealthy heir to a prominent real-estate magnate becomes caught up in a high-profile murder investigation in this thriller inspired by the real-life case of Robert Durst, who was suspected of murdering his wife, Kathie, after she vanished without a trace in 1982. 

czar 

tycoon

By casting Ryan Gosling as the [profoundly] disturbed [scion] of a New York real-estate tycoon, director Andrew Jarecki makes All Good Things -- his [thinly] veiled retelling of the infamous Robert Durst case -- into one of the better examples of the genre.

potentate

In fact, all are good, especially Helen Mirren as the way-out rich girl and Arthur Lowe as an [unctous] African potentate.

prexy 

curator

laird

The laird said we're to take no chances, didn't he?



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populace

By asking Earl directly for assistance, Ron is breaking the [populace's] Byzantine protocol -- but he's lucky, because Earl takes a shine [to] him.

despot

He finds, under the regime of an all-powerful, benevolent and suave despot, a sinister situation dating back to the days of pagan practices and fertility rites.

regent 

baton

sceptor 

mace 

regalia

Fred travels through the city in full [military] regalia, impervious to the constant [taunts] of Fascist!

regal

applied to the office of kingship or the outward manifestations of grandeur and majesty

regal authority, bearing, splendor, [munificence]

she also becomes Mary psychologically (regal and domineering at one moment, frivolous and [restive] the next). 

sceptre

scepter

a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power

Some say that due to the intellect of a king he feels uncomfortable within the realms of emotions & is not truly connected to his [element], so he can be like an island himself. Others could say that he is a master of emotion as in his other hand he holds a sceptre a symbol of [worldly] power, so he struggles with emotions V’s intellect.



fealty

History / Historical.

fidelity to a lord

obligation or engagement to be faithful to a lord, usually sworn to by a vassal 

The story of the twelfth century Archbishop Of Canterbury who enraged King Henry II when he declared fealty [to] God over the king. 

The fealty of Ms. Hadzihalilovic's translation of the Wedekind text notwithstanding, the dubious vision of utopia put forth in this film finds the girls engaged in an almost militaristic pursuit of physical perfection without commensurate attention paid to their intellect. They stretch their limbs, not their minds.



feudalistic

The Darwinian [atmosphere] of Japan's feudalistic corporate world is laid open for inspection and condemnation by the director, as Mifune tries to destroy the company from within.

feudal

Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in [feudal] Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

Christopher Lee is the cultured feudal [Lord] Summerisle, lord of the island. 

But it’s not a total tease: RZA has a deal to make The Man With the Iron Fists at Universal, with Eli Roth co-writing and producing. The $20m film will star RZA as "the title character, a blacksmith who forges weapons for the inhabitants of a village in feudal [China].

A day or two later, an affecting little feudal ceremony took place to welcome me into residence at the [castle].

liege 

vassal 

Look, the 9th to 15th centuries, when the lords held all the land, and parceled out what they wished to their vassals. Look about. What have we?

Because Mr. Ballard is not of the ruling class is a mere vassal, as it were... But, Mother, Miss Beldon doesn't have to explain, not to me. I'm aware of the influence of the feudal system in this village.

enclave

He transplants the action to an imagined self-[governing] enclave of 19th-century British merchants in Japan.

The lament will [resonate] from San Francisco to D.C., Los Angeles to Harlem, as enclaves that were once hubs of black American life are drained of their blackness.

fiefdom

Fearing rape, he appeals directly to Earl, a fellow prisoner who runs the place like it was his [own] fiefdom. 

chatelaine

"She treated me like a servant, " said the lumberjack, husband of the chatelaine.

chateau

The provincial chateau is [rife] with old-fashioned quirks and perversions,

manor

or just hung around the library at pine manor.

laird

The laird said we're to take no chances, didn't he?



stratum  

strata

We can follow the history of life [through] the strata.

Tramps are in a [low] stratum of [society].

A climactic party scene at which these [various] strata of young America overcome their [rigid] hierarchies sets the stage for resolutions both tender and torrid. 

Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student [body]: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the "cool" kids, and so on. 

as the passengers, who speak in several different languages and seemingly embody a variety of [social] strata,

patrician

But it's the idea when I'm in England I play this patrician/cold person

Mr. Stillman's smart, [patrician] characters have their worries, but social acceptability is seldom one of them.

boor

villein

a serf in feudalism



prerogative

It wouldn't be any great tragedy, if some of these people lost their class prerogatives.

But here, as the prerogatives of business [clash] with personal obligations, it's a businessman who must [run] the [gauntlet] of conscience.

peremptory

She was a [tyrant], peremptory in ordering us about. 

imperative

although if you have an imperative air, it may suggest merely that you're accustomed to giving orders

It is imperative [to] act now

the imperative [mood] 祈使語氣 

imperious

applies mainly to people and their gestures or actions

has a pejorative edge

Contemplating her career, it is hard not to be reminded of another equally [imperious] and [volatile] performer from the golden age of Hollywood, namely Katharine Hepburn.

















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