Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries: the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing.
藏书使教育成为可能，而教育反过来又丰富了藏书，因为知识的增长遵循着一种“滚雪球”的规律。印刷术的发明又大大提高了知识增长的速度。
新概念英语第四册
Lesson 22 Knowledge and progress
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 教育;教育学;培养;训练;
💡 e出+duc引导，带来+ation行为 → 引出知识的行为 → 教育
"a special adviser to the President on education"
总统的教育特别顾问
近义：schooling, instruction, learning, background, schoolteaching, teaching
反义：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
n. 生长;增长;一茬植株;肿块，肿瘤;
💡 grow成长+th抽象名词 → 成长
"Do you know the optimum temperature for the growth of plants?"
你知道庄稼生长的最佳温度 吗 ?
近义：headway, improvement, increase, augmentation, progress, rising
反义：lessening, letup, recession, reduction, remission, shortage
n. 了解，理解;知识（表示多方面的知识时有复数knowledges这一用法）;学科;见闻;
💡 know知道+ledge框架 → 知识
"She has acquired a good knowledge of English."
她英语已经学得很好。
近义：idea, learning, notion, background, sageness, sapience
反义：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
n. 场地;复合物;（筑有围墙的）院子;复合词;
💡 com全部+pound放→全部放到一起→化合物
"Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine."
普通食盐是钠和氯的化合物。
近义：precinct, room, stance, close, immix, assort
反义：modest, ordinary, oversimplified, plain, bare, stodgy
n. 发明;发明物;捏造：内心捏造的东西，特指谎言;发明才能;
💡 invent发明，创造+ion名词后缀 → 发明，创造，捏造
"Fax machines were a wonderful invention at the time."
传真机在当时是一项了不起的发明。
近义：improvisation, intellect, intelligence, strike, talent, brainchild