ABC Interactive English No. 260 February, 2024 Contents 每日一句 Wishes for Special Occasions 特殊場合的祝賀實用句 玩味生活 All About Tiny Houses 迷你屋大全 活用ABC Shopping for Groceries 購物英語：食品雜貨篇 世界好望角 Fun Chinese New Year Celebrations 饒富趣味的春節慶典 本月焦點 Valentine’s Day Gifts 情人節禮物 To My Valentine 完美的情人節禮物 畫中有話 Sorting the Trash 垃圾分類 品格英語 Staying Calm Under Pressure 保持冷靜，擊敗壓力 流行最前線 Taiwan’s Strawberry Season 季節限定的「莓」好時光 文法補給站 What Can and Can’t You Do? 可以做和不能做的事 I Need Some Advice 我需要一些建議 短篇故事集 Rip Van Winkle 〈李伯大夢〉 安妮信箱 Are Sports Important? 運動重要嗎？ 小地方大玩意 A Trip to Fisherman’s Wharf in Tamsui 淡水漁人碼頭輕旅行 悠遊文化 Why Do Some Nations Drive on the Left? 為什麼有些國家是靠左行駛？ ABC長知識 Do Goldfish Really Have a Three-Second Memory? 金魚只有三秒記憶？ 聽說圖寫 Campus Bulletin Board 校園布告欄 本月之星 瑋瑋黃挺瑋

每日一句 Free-Time Activities 休閒活動實用句 本月焦點 Musical Instruments 樂器 What Musical Instruments Do You Play? 樂器百百種，你會哪一種？ 流行最前線 Take Your Own Studio Photos 棚拍DIY 盡享自拍的百變魅力 畫中有話 Getting Alterations 修改衣服 文法補給站 A Special Exhibit 特別的展覽 A Poor Excuse 拙劣的藉口 短篇故事集 A Service of Love 〈愛的奉獻〉 活用ABC Borrowing and Lending 借用東西的實用英語 品格英語 Become a Better Person—Take a Risk 放膽冒險，成就更好的自我 克漏字測驗 Universities Offer Mental Health Leave for Students 大學提供學生心理健康假 安妮信箱 When I Grow Up 長大以後 玩味生活 Wildlife Tourism: Traveling for the Animals 野生動物旅遊的美麗與哀愁 小人物大視界 Amanda Gorman: Using Her Words for Good 艾曼達‧高曼：用文字翻轉世界 小地方大玩意 National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts 衛武營國家藝術文化中心 ABC長知識 Myths About a Rabbit’s Diet1 兔子飲食迷思大解密 聽說圖寫 City Pass 城市通票 本月之星 理想混蛋

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“More popular than Jesus.” Despite the uproar it caused in America in 1966, John Lennon’s famous assessment of the Beatles vis-à-vis religion was not far off. The Beatles did mean more to kids than the religions in which they were raised, not only in America but everywhere in the world. By all accounts, the Beatles were the most significant musical group of the twentieth century. Their albums sold in the hundreds of millions, and the press was always eager to document their activities and perspectives. And when fan appreciation morphed into worship, Beatlemania took on religious significance. Many young people around the world began to look to the Beatles—their music, their commentary, their art—for meaning in a turbulent decade. Speaking Words of Wisdom is a deep dive into the Beatles’ relationship to religion through the lenses of philosophy, cultural studies, music history, and religious studies. Chapters explore topics such as religious life in Liverpool, faith among individual band members, why and how India entered the Beatles’ story, fan worship/deification, and the Beatles’ long-lasting legacy. In the 1960s, the Beatles facilitated a reevaluation of our deepest values. The story of how the Beatles became modern-day sages is an important case study for the ways in which consumers make culturally and religiously significant meaning from music, people, and events. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this book include David Bedford, Kenneth Campbell, John Covach, Melissa Davis, Anthony DeCurtis, Mark Duffett, Scott Freer, Murray Leeder, Sean MacLeod, Grant Maxwell, Christiane Meiser, and Eyal Regev.

This will be a book for the world’s last reader, she decided, chewing pen-end over an open exercise book. In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads—‘full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back.’ Drylands is the story of the townsfolk’s harsh, violent lives. Trenchant and brilliant, Thea Astley’s final novel is a dark portrait of outback Australia in decline. Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published in 1958 and her third, The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Many notable books followed, among them the groundbreaking A Kindness Cup (1974), which addressed frontier massacres of Indigenous Australians, and It’s Raining in Mango (1987). Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner. Her fiction is distinguished by vivid imagery and metaphor; a complex, ironic style; and a desire to highlight oppression and social injustice. One of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century, Astley died in 2004. ‘It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion.’ Herald Sun 'Wonderful.' Australian

When Dymphna Stella Rees finds bundles of love letters buried in her parents' archive, she is intrigued by the discovery. Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees were a power couple of the Australian literary scene in the mid-twentieth century. They took their shared dream of being writers from Perth to London and launched themselves in Fleet Street, interviewing some of the century's literary greats, including James Joyce, AA Milne, and George Bernard Shaw. After settling in Sydney in the 1930s, they embraced the city's vibrant arts scene and established prolific careers. Leslie became an award-winning children's book author and the ABC's national drama editor, while Coralie was one of the country's first female broadcasters. They influenced the development of an authentically Australian arts culture and included among their friends Mary Gilmore, Ruth Park, D'Arcy Niland, Mary Durack and Vance and Nettie Palmer. Drawn from personal notebooks, letters and original transcripts, A Paper Inheritance is the engrossing story of what drove this literary couple to prominence and is a celebration of their love and their passion for words.