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路加福音 22：47~53

捉拿主耶穌

47 說話之間，來了許多人。那十二個門徒裡名叫猶大的，走在前頭，就近耶穌，要與他親嘴。

共六十字，每週十五字：

1. perfunctory a. lacking interest, care; not thorough
2. peripheral a. outer part, pertaining to the surface, of minor importance
3. piety n. religious devotion
4. pithy a. terse and to the point
5. placate v. appease, often by making concessions
6. plausible a. appearing to worth believing
7. polemical a. aggressive in verbal attack
8. ponderous a very heavy, tedious, and awkward
9. precarious a. dangerous because of unknown conditions
10. precocious a. gifted, advanced in development
11. precursor n. forerunner, predecessor, herald
12. predilection a. partiality, preference, inclination; have a predilection for sth.
13. insolent a. presumptuous, arrogant
14. prodigal a. reckless with money, extravagant, spendthrift
15. defile a. profane, descrate
16.  
17. profusion n. abundant quantity; lavish expenditure
18. proliferation n. rapid increase in numbers, propagation
19. proponent n. not an opponent, advocate, champion, adherent
20. prosaic a. dull and unimaginative, pedestrian
21. proximity n. state of being close
22. quandary n. predicament, state of perplexity
23. quell v. overwhelm, put an end to
24. fretful a. whining, petulant, peevish, querulous, habitually fussy and full of complaints
25. quiescent a. temporarily inactive, dormant
26. quixotic a. idealistic but impractical
27. ramble v. amble, meander, digress
28. rancor n. lasting resentment, bitterness
29. haphazard a. random, accidental
30. rant v. rave, speak grandiloquently, clamor, declaim
31. ratify v. approve formally, corroborate
32.  
33. rebuttal n. refutaion, denial, reply pointing out flaws in oppnent's argument
34. recant v. openly confess error, repudiate, renounce, disclaim
35. hermit n. recluse, loner
36. recount v. give, tell , narrate a detailed account
37. rectify v. fix, correct, remedy
38. regimen n. a program or plan; regular couse of training
39. relegate v. consign to an inferior position, banish
40. remorse n. self-reproach, penitence
41. renounce n. disown, repudiate; ex. even though joan d'arc knew she would be burned at the stake as a witch, she refused to renounce her belief that her voices came from God.
42. reprehensible a. culpable, deserving blame
43. reprimand n./v. strong rebuke, reproof
44. reprove v. scold, generally in a gentle manner
45. rescind v. repeal, void, retract, revoke
46. reserve n. avoidance of intimacy, aloofness 矜持、內向、拘謹
47. reticent a. taciturn, uncommunicative 木訥寡言
48.  
49. disavow v. retract, withdral
50. bombastic a. oratorical, rhetorical
51. sage n. pundit, savant, guru
52. sardonic a. showing little respect in a humorous but unkind way, sartirical
53. scrupulous a. conscientious and exact, very very thorough, meticulous
54. scrutiny n. inspection, clese and critical examination
55. seclusion n. solitude, state of being removed from social contact
56. servile a. slavishly (唯命是從的) submissive, fawning (flattering), cringing; 卑躬的；諂媚的
57. sporadic a. intermittent, irregular
58. spurious a. forged, conterfeit, fake
59. squander v. spend foolishly, dissipate
60. stagnant a. stale, static
61. strident a. raucous, shrill
62. subside v. dwindle, abate, lessen
63. pedantic a. overly concerned with small details, didantic, nit-picking, bookish

路加福音 22：39~46

客西馬尼園的禱告

39 耶穌出來，照常往橄欖山去，門徒也跟隨他。

路加福音 22：35~38

鴨子聽雷 (新增)

35 耶穌又對他們說：我差你們出去的時候，沒有錢囊，沒有口袋，沒有鞋，你們缺少什麼沒有？他們說：沒有。

老子道德經第四十一章云：上士聞道，勤而行之；中士聞道，若存若亡；下士聞道，大笑之。不笑不足以為道。故建言有之：明道若昧，進道若退，夷道若纇，上德若谷，大白若辱，廣德若不足，建德若偷，質德若渝，大方無隅，大器晚成，大音希聲，大象無形，道隱無名。夫唯道，善貸且成。(纇 = 類)

其中「大器晚成」的「晚成」真的是指時間上的晚嗎？還是 '晚' 字錯植？

首先提出異樣觀點的是清人呂種玉，他在《言鯖》中指出：「大器晚成，非也。道德原來乃大器無成，其義甚精。晚成之說，後人相沿襲耳。」意思是說「大器晚成」原本是「大器無成」，後代的世人以訛傳訛，就這樣一直錯誤下去了。這一觀點雖然得到了清代文學家杭世駿的贊同，但是近代學術界對此觀點仍是不屑一顧。