1. standardization: To standardize
2. John Dryden:
John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott named him "Glorious John."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden
3. Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published (John Gay said in a 1726 letter to Swift that "it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery"[1]); since then, it has never been out of print.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels
4. prescriptive: telling people how a language should be used, rather than describing how it is used
5. descriptive: saying what somebody/something is like; describing something
6. usage: the way in which words are used in a language → (grammar)
7. lexicon: all the words and phrases used in a particular language or subject; all the words and phrases used and known by a particular person or group of people
8. philatelist : stamp = lexicon : word
9. dialect: the form of a language that is spoken in one area with grammar, words and pronunciation that may be different from other forms of the same language
10. slang: very informal words and expressions that are more common in spoken language, especially used by a particular group of people, for example, children, criminals, soldiers, etc.
11. 虎牙= vampire teeth
12. your grounded = 1. 被禁足 2. 腳踏實地
13. ground floor: the floor of a building that is at the same level as the ground outside
(G = elevator)
14. blind side(盲點)
The Blind Side (film)
The Blind Side is a 2009 American drama–sports film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The storyline features Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who plays for theBaltimore Ravens of the NFL. The film follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing, through his years at Wingate Christian School (a fictional representation of Briarcrest Christian School in the suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee), his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, and on to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football. For her performance, Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The film itself also received an Academy Awardnomination for Best Picture.
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