The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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n. 发现，发觉;（剧情的）发展;被发现的事物;[法]显示证据;
💡 discover发现+y表名词 →掀开 → 发现
"The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century."
通常认为，蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。
近义：invention, strike, disclosure, find, finding
n. 残忍;残忍的行为;残酷行为;虐待;
💡 cruel残酷的+ty表名词 →残酷
"The deliberate cruelty of his words cut her like a knife."
他故意说的残酷无情的话对她像刀割一样。
近义：outrage, heartlessness, inclemency, inhumanity, insidiousness, mercilessness
adj. 鲁莽的，不顾危险的;粗心大意的;满不在乎的;胆大妄为;
💡 reck顾虑 + less无...的→ 不顾后果的
"Behind his cool exterior lurks a reckless and frustrated person."
在冷酷的外表背后,他是一个鲁莽又不得志的人.
近义：haywire, heedless, imprudent, inadvertent, incautious, inflexible
反义：anxious, apprehensive, jumpy, nervous, panicky, awed
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
n. 机会，时机;场合;理由;需要;
vt. 惹起，引起;
💡 oc(to)+cas(case事情)+ion(名缀):快到事情的一刹那- 时机 oc(=ob=before)+cas(=fall落下):落下前的一刹那- 机会
"The wedding was an occasion of great festivity."
这个婚礼是喜庆盛事。
近义：justify, make, carry, cause, effect, merit
n. 爆发, 突发, 破裂, 暴乱
近义：outbreak, rush, seizure, spell, spurt, storm
反义：imperturbability, placidity, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose