The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
个人的生活史首先就是适应他的社团世代相传形成的生活方式和准则。
新概念英语第四册
Lesson 44 Patterns of culture
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 历史，历史学;发展史;履历，经历;（某地的）沿革;
💡 histor过去发生的事 + y 表名词→ 历史；个人经历
"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"."
2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言，他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
近义：archives, papers, past, background, record, records
adj. 个人的;独特的;个别的;
n. 个人;个体;
💡 in加强+di分开+vid分开+ual...的→与别人分开的→个人的，个体的
"Welfare payments cease as soon as an individual starts a job."
一旦就业，即停发福利救济。
近义：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke
反义：assemblage, assembly, mass, mob, multitude, party
adj. 第一流的，最重要的;最初的，最前面的;
adv. 首先，第一;居于首位地;
💡 fore前+most表形容词，最 →最前面的
"He is considered the foremost British artist of this century."
他被认为是本世纪英国第一流的艺术家.
近义：prime, first, fore, forward, front, mainly
n. 住处;适应;便利;和解;
💡 ac引申+commod住宿+at动词后缀+ion名词后缀→预定铺位，膳宿条件
"to stay in high-class accommodation"
住在上好的住所
近义：lodge, lodgement, lodging, quartering, room, accommodations
反义：huddle, jumble, mess, muddle, muss, bafflement
n. 社区;社会团体;共同体;[生态] 群落;
💡 com共同+mun公共的+ity状态→公共状态→社会，社区
"The development was bitterly opposed by the local community."
这一开发项目遭到了当地社区的愤怒抵制。
近义：aristoi, society, collectivity, group, guild, commonwealth
反义：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke