Happy Peace Memorial Day (和平紀念日)

 Today is a memorial to mark the 2-28 Incident in 1947 where the then KMT massacred thousands of innocent people who were protesting against the government. The number of deaths are estimated to be between 10,000-30,000 people. This day marked the beginning of the White Terror period and a time of mass incarcerations, deaths and disappearances. Today we honor those people who died fighting a repressive regime. Long live Taiwanese Democracy!
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Massacre (verb)
		屠殺	massacre, slaughter, butcher
		殺戮	slaughter, massacre
		屠	slaughter, massacre
		殪	exterminate, kill, take out, decimate, wipe out, massacre

Protest (verb)
		拒付	protest, refuse payment, repudiate

Government (noun)
		政府	government

Innocent (adjective)

合法的	lawful, legit, rightful, allowed, permitted, innocent

Estimate (verb)
		估計	estimate, reckon, gauge, appraise

Breaking the ice

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"Breaking the ice" is an idiom about when a person wants to begin a conversation  during an uncomfortable situation that will make everyone relaxed. Someone says an "icebreaker" to make everyone comfortable.

An example could be a class of students with a new teacher and the teacher "breaks the ice" with a joke or activity.

So lets begin. Lets break the ice of any expectations we may have about yoga or learning a foreign language.

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yoga /ˈyoʊɡə/ 
idiom /ˈɪdiəm/ - 慣用語
break /breɪk/ - 打破
ice /aɪs/ -冰
"Breaking the ice"- 
comfortable /ˈkʌmftərbl; ˈkʌmfərt̮əbl/ - 舒服 and uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌmftərbl; ʌnˈkʌmfərt̮əbl/  不爽
expectation /ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃn/ - 期許