James McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1979. His parents got divorced when McAvoy was quite young, so he stayed with his mother. She suffered from poor health, though, so he grew up with his grandparents, who lived in public housing in a rough neighborhood. It was a challenging life to say the least.
Things turned around after McAvoy got a role in a movie called The Near Room when he was only 15 years old. At the time, he was not actually interested in acting professionally.
Ready Player One is set in the year 2044 in a world that suffers from too many people, pollution, and climate change. To escape the cruel reality of everyday life, most people log into an online virtual reality game called The Oasis where they can live out their fantasies. When the game's billionaire creator dies, he leaves behind his fortune to anyone who can find his treasure in the game. After a teenager named Wade Watts discovers a clue to finding the fortune, he realizes that he may be in over his head.
《一級玩家》場景設立在 2044 年時遭受人口過多、汙染及氣候變遷之苦的世界。為了逃避日常生活的殘酷現實，大部分的人都登入一個叫做「綠洲」的線上虛擬實境遊戲，在遊戲中他們可以實現他們的幻想。遊戲的億萬富翁創辦人逝世時，他將他的財產留給任何能夠找到他藏在遊戲中寶藏的人。
“We must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter – thinking – because it’s hard work for people to think… All of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.”— Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM
A courtroom artist’s job is to sit in court and draw images based on what they see in a trial. This includes pictures of the judge, lawyers, witnesses, and the person on trial. This is an important job because in many countries, cameras aren’t allowed in the courtroom. News channels must rely on their drawings to show what is happening in court.
法庭畫家的工作是坐在法庭裡，並根據他們在審判中看到的景象繪製圖像。這其中包含了法官、律師、證人和受審者的人像。這是一個很重要的工作，因為在許多國家，相機是不允許帶進法庭的。新聞頻道必須依靠法庭畫家的畫作來呈現法庭上所發生的事。
英文名人名言佳句-Alan Watts, Philosopher艾倫‧華茲 (哲學家)
“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”
– Alan Watts, Philosopher
Many books become bestsellers or become a major part of pop culture. Few novels, however, have a direct influence on the course of history. In the 1800s, the second-biggest selling book was Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Not only was it popular, but many people, including President Abraham Lincoln, believed Uncle Tom's Cabin helped start the American Civil War. That means that this book eventually led to the end of slavery.
許多書籍都能成為暢銷書或是流行文化的主要部分。不過極少有小說會對歷史發展的過程產生直接的影響。十九世紀時，第二大暢銷書為哈里特•比徹•斯托所寫的《湯姆叔叔的小屋》。這本書不但受歡迎，而且包含美國前總統亞伯拉罕•林肯在內的許多人都認為《湯姆叔叔的小屋》是美國南北戰爭的導火線之一。這表示這本書終究帶來奴隸制度的終結。
The dodo was one of the strangest-looking animals that ever lived. These large birds had a long, green beak and lived on the island of Mauritius. Unlike most birds, they could not fly.
They got the name dodo because the sailors who discovered them thought they were stupid creatures. Dodos had no natural predators, so they weren't afraid of anything that might hurt them. This made it easy for people to hunt and kill the poor birds.
