Week 5 Day 4

Our Pyrrhic Victory
Mr. Dorsey summoned a representative group of teachers and student leaders to his office in order to elicit their reaction to the suspension of the football captain. He told them that cheating was a pernicious disease that could not be tolerated in our school. He loathed having to discipline Art Krause so severely, but unless strict measures were taken, the student body would construe the incident as an open invitation to cheat with impunity. "We may lose a football game," the principal said, " but we can salvage our self-respect."
慘痛的勝利
Dorsey先生招集一群老師及學生領袖代表到他的辦公室，試圖引出他們對於足球隊長被停權的反應。他告訴他們說作弊是一種有害的疾病，絕對沒法容許作弊在我們的學校發生。他很討厭必須要那麼嚴厲的處罰 Art Krause，但如果不這麼嚴格的處置，學生會把這件事當成作弊到最後都可以免罪。校長說"我們也許會輸了足球比賽，但是我們卻拯救了我們的自尊。"

Words
1. elicit 引出，誘出 v.
2. pernicious 有害的，致命的 adj.
3. tolerate 容忍 v.
4. construe 推斷，推論，理解為 v.
5. impunity 免除懲罰 n.
6. pyrrhic victory 勝利但是卻付出慘痛的代價 n. (Week 2 Day 2)
7. summon 招集 v.
8. loathe 討厭 v. (Week 3 Day 1)
9. discipline 懲戒 v.
10. salvage 拯救 v.

Today's Idiom
to lionize a person
lionize這個字是從lion來的，就是獅子化，也就是把人當成獅子一般，這個俗語可能來自於倫敦塔上的獅子圖像，這個獅子圖像被當成主要的景點，因此lionize someone就變成把某人捧成名人的意思。

Grammar 主詞藍色 動詞(片語)咖啡色 受詞綠色 連接詞橘色
1.Mr. Dorsey summoned a representative group of teachers and student leaders to his office in order to elicit their reaction to the suspension of the football captain.
in order to 就是為了...的意思。elicit the reaction to something就是引出對某事的反應。

2.He told them that cheating was a pernicious disease that could not be tolerated in our school.
這句有兩個that但是是不同的用法。前面的he told them that的that是引出子句的that，tell後面若直接加動詞，用法為 tell someone to do something，用的是to V.不定詞。如果是tell後面加了一個完整有主詞動詞的句子，就要用that+子句來寫。 後面的 disease that could not be tolerated的 that是關係代名詞，用來代表 disease。

3.He loathed having to discipline Art Krause so severely, but unless strict measures were taken, the student body would construe the incident as an open invitation to cheat with impunity.
loathe這個字是討厭，用法是loathe Ving，用動名詞的形式。take measure表示採取行動，動詞是用take，這裡用的是被動語氣，所以寫成measures were taken。 construe A as B，表示把A理解成B。open invitation表示公開的邀請，意思就是不拒絕。 cheat with impunity表示作弊不受懲罰。

4."We may lose a football game," the principal said, " but we can salvage our self-respect."
這句校長的話，點明了他寧願要維持好的風氣，也不要為了贏得一場比賽而輸掉了更重要的道德觀。