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　　 Hospital (医院;【古语】旅客招待所) 　　“Hospital” literally means “a friendly place to rest.” The Latin noun hospes translates as both “guest” and “host.” The Romans believed that every hospes should be hospitalis, or “friendly.” When they needed a term to designate an inn or hotel?a place where many people could stay and pay as guests of a friendly host?the Romans coined the word hospitum. Centuries later, there was a great desire among Europeans to visit Jerusalem and the Holy Land. These pilgrims were often poor and risked their lives on the journey. Around 1048, a military order of monks called Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem established a hospital, or special lodging place, in Jerusalem. They began to welcome and treat the many pilgrims who arrived in Jerusalem in need of medical attention. Thus, we have the gradual association of a hospital as a place that offers treatment to the ill.
　　The Knights of the Hospital of St. John still
　　exist as an organization today. The group"s
　　 headquarters are in Rome.
　　Solstice (夏至点或冬至点)
　　Twice a year, once in the Southern and once in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is at its farthest distance from the equator. This is called the solstice. During these times, the sun appears to stand still in its southward and northward motion. Two Latin words were used to form “solstice” -sol(“sun”) and sister (“to stand”). In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs about June 21 and winter solstice about December 21.
　　 The equator divides the earth into the Southern
　　Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere, with the
　　 United States in the latter. When it is winter in the
　　 Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the
　　 Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.
　　
　　 Amen (阿门,祈祷结束语)
　　This is a Hebrew word meaning “truth” or “certainty.”
　　Originally used in the Bible at the beginning of a statement, it referred to a truth stated by another person. In Jewish tradition, however, “amen” was never used at the beginning of a thought, but rather at the end of prayers. In the Christian gospels, a double or triple amen was used on several occasions as a preface to stern sayings of Jesus. Christians expanded the custom, gradually closing every prayer with “amen,” as a way of saying “thus it is” or “so be it” or “may it be so.”

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