The Complete Life of Julius Caesar With Mary Beard

🎯 聽之前

A classicist puts Caesar back into politics: alliances, debt, showmanship, and a murder that did not end the argument. Practice biography, power, and what a symbol hides.

• Which facts are about the man, and which are about the later statue?
• How does the speaker handle a famous scene without treating it as the whole life?
• What words describe loyalty that is also a transaction?
• Listen for "not only... but..." when a simple story gets a second layer.

💬 重點句 6

先讀英文，想一下意思，再點「翻譯」。按 🔊 聽一次，然後跟著唸。

1. A statue is a decision about what to remember.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   一座雕像是一個「要記得什麼」的決定。

   A is a decision about... 把物件講成選擇。
2. He was not born an idea. He became one because other people needed him to be.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   他不是天生就是一個概念。他變成概念，是因為別人需要他是。

   not born X. became one。because 子句補上誰的需要。
3. Loyalty in that world was often a bargain, not a feeling.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   在那個世界，忠誠常常是一筆交易，不是一種感覺。

   was often A, not B。bargain 是交換條件。
4. The assassination ended the man and started a fight over his meaning.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   刺殺結束了那個人，並開始了一場關於他意義的爭奪。

   ended A and started B。a fight over + 名詞。
5. Power likes a simple villain or a simple hero. A life is rarely either.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   權力喜歡簡單的惡人或簡單的英雄。一生很少是其中一種。

   either 回指 villain 或 hero。rarely 放在 be 動詞前。
6. If you start at the knives, you skip the politics that made the knives possible.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   如果你從刀子那一幕開始，你會跳過讓刀子成為可能的政治。

   If you start at... you skip...。that made... 關係子句。

📚 單字 10

點卡片翻面。先猜意思再翻。

🗣️ 俚語與成語 6

🧩 句型練習 3

讀完範例，用自己的事造一句。寫在筆記本或手機備忘錄裡，隔天回頭唸一次。

✅ 理解題 4

看完影片再作答。選一個答案會立刻顯示解釋。

1. Why does the lesson say not to start at the assassination?
   The date is unknownYou skip the politics that made it possibleKnives are not historicalBiography should avoid death
   The famous scene is a result. The politics are the chain.
2. What does "the die is cast" mean?
   A game is unfairThe decision cannot be undoneSomeone has diedThe statue is finished
   The idiom is about an irreversible step.
3. In this lesson, what is a statue?
   A neutral factA decision about what to rememberProof of innocenceA private diary
   Choosing what to carve is choosing the story.
4. What does "paper over" mean?
   To publish a bookTo hide a conflict instead of solving itTo sign a treaty in inkTo wrap a gift
   It is a phrasal verb about covering a crack.

💭 用英文想一想

挑一題，用英文寫 3 到 5 句，或對著手機錄一分鐘。不用完美，說出來最重要。

• Pick a famous person and write two sentences: one about the symbol, one about a bargain they made.
• What would change if you told their story without the most famous scene?
• Use "not only... but..." to add a second layer to a simple sentence about power.