莛莛最愛的觀光工廠是宜蘭的噶瑪蘭威士忌酒廠，在這裡可看到製作的原料，還可看到噶瑪蘭威士忌是怎麼生產出來的。此外，他們的"試喝時間"，提供非常多種威士忌讓你免費試喝，但如果你得開車，就需要忍耐一下，買幾瓶威士忌帶回家慢慢品嘗就好。莛莛每次到這裡都會不小心買太多，付錢付到手軟，一瓶威士忌不便宜，隨便拿個幾瓶都破萬，但因為難得去，加上噶瑪蘭威士忌太好喝了，所以就會想多買...

觀光工廠 guānguāng gōngchǎng: tourist factory

宜蘭 yílán: Yilan (a city in eastern Taiwan)

噶瑪蘭威士忌 Gémǎlán wēishìjì : Kavalan Whiskey

原料 yuánliào: (raw) material

忍耐rěnnài: to keep patience

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在台灣，很多投資客靠房地產賺大錢。這幾年台灣的土地和房屋價錢上漲的速度非常快，同樣的金錢，可以買到的房屋越來越小，因此很多人不相信房價會跌。我們常害怕如果房子買貴了、買在高點，會增加錢包的負擔，但房價的低點一直都沒出現，而五年前最高點的房價，現在反而變成了最低點。華人的想法是「有土斯有財」，比起股票，更重視土地和房子，因此房屋市場中，需求大於供給，讓屋主更不想賣房子...

上漲 shàngzhǎng: (price) rises

跌 dié: (price) falls

負擔 fùdān: (financial) struggles and hardship; stress

有土斯有財 yǒu tǔ sī yǒu cái: only when a person has his own land or real estate can he truly own wealth. (slang)

股票 gǔpiào: stock

供給 gōngjǐ: supply

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《媽，別鬧了!》，是齣好笑的電視劇，我們看到預告時就很想要追。電視劇中的爸爸已經去世了，媽媽和兩個女兒都單身。雖然結婚是人生大事，但她們決定比賽，比賽一個月內誰能先找到結婚的對象。這個媽媽不但上交友軟體認識男生，還打扮得很漂亮，實際跟那些男生約會。因為台灣父母比較害羞、保守，離婚或另一半去世後，不太敢再去談戀愛，因此我們覺得這齣連續劇中的媽媽很瘋狂、很酷...

齣 chū: measure word (of a play; TV drama)

預告 yùgào: trailer (of a movie, tv show..)

追 zhuī: binge-watching (tv shows; anime..)

對象 duìxiàng: the person viewed as a prospective marriage partner; the person you’re in a relationship with…

實際 shíjì: actually

連續劇 liánxùjù: TV serials

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圓形的東西代表團圓、和諧，因此在台灣料理店，吃飯的桌子都是圓桌，大家吃飯時圍著圓桌吃飯，象徵著團圓。中國人以前吃飯時席地而坐，自己有自己的餐點，各吃各的，而在西元3-400年前，中國人開始使用圓桌，大家圍在圓形的桌子旁邊一起吃飯，加上什麼菜都看得到、夾得到，因此後來我們就習慣使用圓桌吃飯...

圓形 yuán xíng: circle shape

和諧 héxié: amicable; harmonious

圍 wéi: to surround

象徵 xiàngzhēng: symbolize

席地而坐 xí dì ér zuò: sit on the ground

夾 jiá: to pick up food (with chopsticks)

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Yumin is in the doctoral program of the Institute of Polymer Chemistry of the Czech National Academy of Sciences. Her team mainly makes anti-stick surfaces. They plan to adapt this non-adhesive material to the human body. It will be used to make artificial organs, such as artificial hearts or artificial blood vessels, for people who have had a heart attack or a blood clot, resulting in partial damage to the organ, which cannot be restored.

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昱敏在捷克國家科學院的高分子化學所念博士班，她的團隊主要是做抗沾黏表面，簡而言之，就是一種材料，髒東西會直接離開，且不會附著，能抗髒、抗汙。他們打算把這抗沾黏的材料應用在人體上，因很多人想做人工器官，比如人工心臟或人工血管，或是有些人因心臟病發或血栓發生，導致器官部分損壞，不能恢復，此時需要用人工材料去做替代。然而，人工材料容易有囤積及沾黏的狀況發生，此時血栓又會再一次發生，因此抗沾黏的材料能在換上去以後，讓血栓不會發生，是個永久的方法...

捷克 Jiékè: Czech

高分子化學所 gāo fēnzǐ huàxué suǒ: graduate school of polymer chemistry

抗沾黏 kàng zhān nián: anti-adhesion

附著 fùzhuó: to adhere

應用 yìngyòng: to put to use; to apply (on)

血栓 xiěshuān: thrombus

損壞 sǔnhuài: to damage

囤積 túnjī: to pile up

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在台灣，可以買TR-Pass坐火車繞台灣一圈。如果要玩台灣一圈，需要買五天的TR-Pass，三天的話會玩得比較趕。如果你買TR-Pass，我們建議出發的前一天，可以先上網訂位，訂位時不要付款，隔天去火車站拿票時，給他們看TR-Pass就可上車了。台灣唯一的環島觀光列車「環島之星」也很特別，在火車上不但有卡拉 OK，他們還提供早、中、晚餐和飲料，可以在火車上開趴，超享受...

繞一圈 rào yī quān: to do a round (trip/walk…)

環島觀光列車 huándǎo guānguāng lièchē : Taiwan tourist train 

(環島 huándǎo: travel around Taiwan; travel around (the island) )

環島之星 huándǎo zhī xīng: Formosa Express

開趴 kāi pā: to party; to start partying

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台灣人只有對老闆或公司非常不爽時才會罷工，然而有些勞工很慣老闆，比如他們認為 "台鐵罷工" 或 "長榮航空公司員工罷工" 造成了公司和其他人的麻煩，他們也認為員工不應該隨便要求加薪。我們認為這樣的人奴性太重，真的把老闆慣壞了。在台灣，有些老闆只想找好用的員工，但付不出合適的薪水，也不願意花錢提升員工的工作能力，因此台灣人雖然能力好，但薪水可說是亞洲數一數二的低...

罷工 bàgōng: go on strike

慣老闆 guàn lǎobǎn: to spoil boss

台鐵 Tái tiě: Taiwan Railway

長榮航空公司 Cháng róng hángkōng gōngsī: EVA Air

奴性 núxìng: servility

數一數二 shǔyīshǔ'èr: one of the…

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「舉起你的左手，安打啦-安打，舉起你的右手，全壘打，全壘打」這是台灣人在幫棒球選手加油時，喊的口呼。台灣有5、6個職業棒球隊，每個棒球隊都有自己的歌，屬於自己的啦啦隊，每一個棒球選手也有屬於自己的歌。因此我們認為，棒球一定要看現場，才會緊張刺激好玩...

舉起 jǔ qǐ: to lift up; to raise up

安打 āndǎ: (baseball) hit 

全壘打 quán lěi dǎ: home run

選手 xuǎnshǒu: player

喊 hǎn: to shout

口呼 kǒu hū: cheer up slogan

啦啦隊 lālāduì: cheerleading team

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台灣人認為人住在陽間，鬼住在陰間，農曆七月一號從陰間到陽間的門開了，這時鬼會從陰間到陽間來。為了歡迎鬼到陽間，我們準備大魚大肉迎接他們，讓他們在陽間吃吃喝喝直到七月三十號鬼門關。而鬼月時，最重要的活動就是普度，在我們的想法中，有些人死了以後不願意離開人間，沒辦法轉世。因此鬼月時我們準備很多肉、菜，讓他們吃一吃，滿意後他們就會離開人間了...

鬼月 guǐ yuè: Ghost Month

陽間 yángjiān: the world of the living

陰間 yīnjiān: the land of the dead; the underworld

普度 pǔdù: on the 15th night of the seventh month (lunar year), people prepare ritualistic food offerings, burn incense & joss paper for ghosts, spirits or the deceased ancestors coming out from the lower realm

人間 rénjiān: human world

轉世 zhuǎnshì: after death, a soul/spirit reborn in a new body

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指考分發後，昱敏到了嘉義大學念應用化學系，而她碩士時申請到捷克獎學金，聯繫了幾個教授後，就到捷克做一年的實習。在高等教育中，愈往上學科分愈細，因此她以前念應用化學，現在則念高分子化學。昱敏以前是學霸，念的是明星學校，一開始的目標是台清交成，但上高中後因比較叛逆、貪玩，成績變中後，因此後來念到了地區大學，但她覺得這算是人生轉機...

Yumin's way of learning chemistry:

After taking the univeristy entrance exams, Yumin was accepted into the Department of Applied Chemistry at Chiayi University. Later she applied for a Czech scholarship during her master's degree. After contacting several professors, she went to the Czech Republic for a one-year internship. In higher education, the higher the degree, the area of study is more specific, so she used to study applied chemistry, but now she is studying polymer chemistry.

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指考 zhǐ kǎo: Advanced Subjects Test, one of the university entrance methods in Taiwan

分發 fēnfā: (admission) by placement

應用化學系 yìngyòng huàxué xì: Department of Applied Chemistry

捷克 Jiékè: Czech

高分子化學 gāo fēnzǐ huàxué: Polymer chemistry

學霸 xué bà: straight-A student; academic star

台清交成 Tái Qīng Jiāo Chéng: Taiwan University, Tsing Hua University, Chiao Tung University, Cheng Kung University. Four top national polytechnic research universities in Taiwan

叛逆 pànnì: rebellious

貪玩 tān wán: just want to have fun, shy away from self-discipline

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