The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
— William O. Douglas  ·  Ideas

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combat ['kɑmbæt] 词频3 词根: com
n. 格斗，搏斗，战斗;〈美〉竞赛，比赛;论战; vt. 与…战斗;与…斗争;防止;减轻;
💡 com共同，对抗之意+bat打，走→共同→共同打→战斗
"Chip and PIN is designed to combat credit card fraud."
智能卡系统是专为防止信用卡诈骗设计的。
近义：quarrel, battle, struggle, tilt, vie, wrestle 反义：rapport, togetherness, unison, unity, bonhomie, fraternizing
noxious ['nɑkʃəs] 词根: noc
adj. 有害的，有毒的;
💡 nox伤害，毒+ious形容词后缀 → 有毒的
"Noxious gases had built up in the sewer."
下水道的有害气体越积越多.
近义：hurtful, injurious, lethal, malevolent, malicious, malign 反义：helpful, auspicious, profitable, propitious, salutary, useful
truth [trʊθ] 词频1
n. 真理;真相，事实;忠实，忠诚;现实，现实性;
💡 tru相信，真实+th抽象名词 →事实，真理
"He adjured them to tell the truth."
他要求他们讲真话。
近义：honesty, reality, reliability, sooth, substantiality, truthfulness 反义：hypocrisy, imposture, meretriciousness, phoniness, spuriousness, truthlessness
ideas
abbr. 工业设计优秀奖
falsehoods
n. <正> 谎言, 假话, 虚假( falsehood的复数形式 )

🏷 更多「Ideas」名言

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."
— Jim Hightower
"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination."
— J. B. S. Haldane
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!"
— H. L. Mencken
"The best ideas are common property."
— Seneca
"This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out."
— Hortense Calisher
"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."
— P. B. Medawar
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
— Walter Bagehot
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
— Anatole France
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
— Sir Barnett Cocks
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