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标题: A Hotel in Kaohsiung [打印本页]

作者: choi    时间: 2-26-2015 19:26
标题: A Hotel in Kaohsiung
本帖最后由 choi 于 2-27-2015 09:53 编辑

Catherine Eade, To the Batcave, Robin! Taiwan hotel offers ultimate Bruce Wayne room... complete with 'Bat signal' in the shower. Daily Mail, Feb 26, 2015.
www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/trave ... -signal-shower.html

Note: photo legend:
(a) Batman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman
(Batman is the secret identity of Bruce Wayne, an American billionaire)
(b) Egyptian splendour: The Mummy-themed room is for fans of the adventure movie starring Brendan Fraser  神鬼傳奇 (埃及風情 is a different room.)

(c) No escape: The Alcatraz room takes the famous prison as its theme, and comes complete with handcuffs  惡魔島
(i) 惡魔島 in Taiwan is the Chinese title of Papillon (film)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillon_(film)
(The film's title is French for "Butterfly," referring to Charrière's tattoo and nickname; imprisonment in the notorious French penal colony on Devil's Island, off the coast of French Guiana)
(ii) French English dictionary
papillon (noun masculine; from Latin [noun masculine] pāpiliō [butterfly]): "butterfly"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/papillon
(iii) The hotel room can not be Alcatraz Island, which Taiwanese are unaware of.
Alcatraz Islanden.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Island
(The first Spaniard to document the island was Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, who charted San Francisco Bay and named one of the three islands he identified as the "La Isla de los Alcatraces," which translates as "The Island of the Pelicans," from the archaic Spanish alcatraz (in English: "pelican")
(iv) (Modern) Spanish English dictionary
alcatraz (noun masculine; from Arabic al-qaṭrās' albatross; plural: alcatrazes): "any of several species of seabird: gannet (seabird of the genus Morus); pelican (seabird of the family Pelecanidae); albatross"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alcatraz
(v) gannet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannet

(d) Simply capital: It's not immediately clear why the London-themed room in the Taiwanese hotel is so called...

摩爾菲斯
www.eden-motel.com.tw/room/fashion/item/27-108
(i) Morpheus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheus
(may refer to: "Morpheus (mythology), the principal god of dreams in the Greek mythology")
(ii) This can not be a combination of Moors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors
and
Fes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fes
(section 1.1 Etymology)

Travelogues from Taiwan do have 摩爾菲斯 for the Moroccan city.
(iii) This can not be 艾爾菲斯古董集市 Alfies Antiques Market

(e) Something fishy: Comic book creation Aquaman also has a room designed in his honour  海洋之星

Aquaman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman

(f) "The Eden motel in Taiwan has a slew of movie-themed rooms, despite its unprepossessing outer appearance
(i) 伊甸風情精品旅店~換老婆不如換地方  Eden Exorticism, undated
www.eden-motel.com.tw/
(高雄)
(ii)
(A) prepossessing (adj): "tending to create a favorable impression :  ATTRACTIVE"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prepossessing
(B) prepossess (vt):
"2: to cause to be preoccupied
3:  to influence beforehand especially favorably"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prepossess




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