discount [dɪs'kaʊnt] 词频4 词根: dis

vt. 打折扣，减价出售;减息贷款;削价出售，打折;减价，减量; vi. 折扣;贴现率;贴现; n. 贴现;数目;（任何面值上的）扣除额;（考虑到故事、报告、报道等的夸张或偏见等）不全信;

💡 dis 取消+ count数量 → 取消一些金钱的花费\r\n → (价格、债款等)折扣

"Honesty seems to be rather at a discount today."

近义：waive, chuck, discard, discharge, dismiss, ditch 反义：hike, improvement, increment, intensification, interest, lift

percent [pɚ'sɛnt] 词根: cent

n. 百分比，百分数;百分之一; adj. 百分之…的，每一百中有…的;百分之…支付利息的; adv. 以百分之…地，每一百中有…地;

💡 per贯穿，自始自终+cent一百→百分比

"A conflagration in 1947 reduced 90 percent of the houses to ashes."

近义：percentage, part, portion, fragment, cud, quid

last [læst] 词频1 词根: /lə/

n. 末尾;最后;上个;鞋楦（做鞋的模型）; vt. 经受住;到…之后;够用;足够维持（尤指某段时间）; adj. 最近的;最后的;最不可能的;惟一剩下的; vi. 持续; adv. 上一次，最近一次;最后;

"The two sides signed a peace accord last July."

近义：live, persist, stand, subsist, survive, hindermost 反义：part, croak, decease, depart, die, expire

chance [tʃæns] 词频1

n. 机会，机遇;概率，可能性;偶然，运气; v. 偶然发生;冒险;碰巧;偶然被发现; adj. 意外的;偶然的;碰巧的;

💡 碰巧有 机会阐(chan)述我的计策(ce)

"I would do it if I had the chance."

近义：hazard, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, risk, stake 反义：assurance, assuredness, obviousness, palpability, patency, positiveness