No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
— Harold Rosenberg  ·  Criticism

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safeguard ['sefɡɑrd] 词频3
n. 保护，保卫;防护措施;安全设施; vt. 保护，保卫;防护;
💡 safe安全的+guard保护 → 保护，维护
"to safeguard a person's interests"
维护某人的利益
近义：protect, secure, shield, ward, forefend, defend 反义：helplessness, defencelessness, defenselessness, dereliction, desolation, abandonment
against [ə'ɡɛnst] 词频1
prep. 反对;对…不利;紧靠;以防;
💡 gain =against (反对)#词根助记：反对
"Ten people voted in favour, five against and two abstained."
十人投票赞成，五人反对，两人弃权。
近义：athwart, agin
determination [dɪ,tɝmɪ'neʃən] 词频3 词根: term
n. 决心;决定，确定;[物]测定，计算;
💡 de使成...+termin界限 +ation表名词 →决定
"Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination."
当时的报道证实了他的勇气和决心。
近义：resolution, resolve, disposition, insistence, persistence, tenacity 反义：hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, irresolution, mutability, unsteadiness
fascinating ['fæsɪnetɪŋ] 词频2
adj. 迷人的，有极大吸引力的;使人神魂颠倒的; v. 使…陶醉(fascinate的ing形式);
💡 fascinat=fascinate使…入迷+ing使...的 →迷人的
"His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography."
这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平.
近义：arresting, absorbing, obsessive, riveting, spellbinding, winning 反义：horrible, ignoble, low, lowly, mean, nasty
degree [dɪ'ɡri] 词频1 词根: 行走
n. [乐]音阶，度;[数]度，度数;程度;学位;
💡 的哥”（谐音）要有 学位才能上岗
"a degree in biology"
生物学学位
近义：graduate, level, proportion, extent, title, qualification
dullness [['dʌlnis]]
[医] 迟钝, 浊音
近义：heaviness, jejuneness, sogginess, tiresomeness, wearisomeness, jejunity 反义：lightness, limpidity, splendor, brightness, brilliance, clarity

🏷 更多「Criticism」名言

"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."
— Franklin P. Jones
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
— Kurt Vonnegut
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
— W. Somerset Maugham
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
— Dale Carnegie
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."
— Christopher Hampton
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
— H. L. Mencken
"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic.'"
— Richard Pryor
"After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."
— Edith Wharton
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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