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The Bicentennial Man is a novelette in the Robot series by Isaac Asimov. It was awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best science fiction novelette of 1976.

bureaucracy:  a large group of people who are involved in running a government but who are not elected.

inflexible: not easily influenced or persuaded.

democracy: an organization or situation in which everyone is treated equally and has equal rights.

A- Adom  B- Bob  C- Corel  D-David

-cide: killing  ex. homocide, insecticide, suicide

The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, is the phenomenon whereby the greater the expectation placed upon people, the better they perform.The effect is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.

Nepture海神的希臘名

Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Aphrodite: the golden goddess of  Love.

Apollon: the brother of Artemis.

Iphigenia: is a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology, whom Agamemnon is commanded to kill as a sacrifice to allow his ships to sail to Troy. In Attic accounts, her name means "strong-born", "born to strength", or "she who causes the birth of strong offspring."

fury   furies  furious

Aphrodite&Ares有一段情

Patronage: support that is given to a business, library, etc., by buying its goods or using its services.

patron god

pomegrantes紅石榴  Persephome吃了很多紅石榴

Demeter: the Greek goddess of agriculture.In Greek religion, a consort of Zeus and the goddess of agricuture, especially grain. Though rarely mentioned by Homer and not an Olympian deity, she is probably an ancient goddess. She is best remembered for her role in the story of Persephone, in which her lack of attention to the harvest causes a famine. In addition to appearing as a goddess of agriculture, Demeter was sometimes worshiped as a divinity of the Underworld and as a goddess of health, birth, and marriage.

Discard:  to get rid of especially as useless or unwanted.

Hermes
Iris
Homeric epithet
the swift-footed Achilles
the rocky Ithaca
tag characteristics Eros
Helios: related to Sun
Athene(Athena)女戰神
The three Graces
Hebe不考
Herakles
Io
Kalypso(Calypso)
Kirke(Circe)
Nymph加拿大女生名
Penelope Odyssey
suitor