如何用英語簡單描述 Green Island 綠島的史地

今天讀到一篇書評, 它第一段簡短介紹了綠島的位置和歷史, 英語清晰扼要值得想學習如何表達台灣史地的人詳讀, 所以利用它做成閱讀測驗。

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Just off/from the south east coast of Taiwan, facing the/0 Pacific Ocean, is the small archipelago/atoll of Green Island.

Over the four decades of/four decade Taiwan’s authoritarian rule from 0/the 1940s/1940's to the 1980s, it was the location for a cluster of notorious prison camps that housed Taiwanese political prisoners.

Thousands of people who opposed the government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists (Kuomingtang or KMT) spent years on/in isolated imprisonment/prison and an unknown number/prisoner died there.

Quiz
1. 在有畫底線的選項中, 挑選比較好的答案。
2. 第二句的 it, 代表前面哪個名詞?

Practical Phrases
- authoritarian rule
- notorious prison camps
- Taiwanese political prisoners
- a cluster of
- opposed the government of ...
- in isolated imprisonment
- an unknown number

Grammar
比較 decade 和 dozen 的文法差異。例如

歷時40年的壓迫
four decades of oppression (對)
four decade oppression (錯)

4打蛋

four dozen eggs (對) 

four dozens of eggs (錯) 

'four dozen' 是計量詞, 用法類似 ten, twenty, forty-eight.

原文出處: Ways of remembering – Green Island Written by Mark Harrison.
Just off the south west east coast of Taiwan, facing the Pacific Ocean, is the small atoll of Green Island. Over the four decades of Taiwan’s authoritarian rule from the 1940s to the 1980s, it was the location for a cluster of notorious prison camps that housed Taiwanese political prisoners. Thousands of people who opposed the government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists (Kuomingtang or KMT) spent years in isolated imprisonment and an unknown number died there.
(原文作者寫綠島在台灣的西南方, 應該是東南方才對)


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