I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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enigma
[ɪ'nɪgmə]
n. 谜，不可解的事物;
💡 enigma- 【希腊传入拉丁】表示”意义不明的话”
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
俄罗斯是被包藏在一个闷葫芦里面的神秘物体之中的谜.
近义：mystery, puzzle, puzzler, riddle, unknown
adj. 无害的，不致伤的;没有受到损失或免于法律责任的;
💡 harm伤害+less无...的 → 无害的
"It was just a piece of harmless frivolity."
这仅是无恶意的愚蠢行为。
近义：innocuous, inoffensive, offenceless, safe, unoffending, benign
反义：hurtful, injurious, malign, malignant, negative, noxious
adj. 可怕的;危害极大的;<非正>很糟的;劣质的;
adv. 口〉非常，很，极;
n. 可怕的人;
💡 terr怕+ible...的 → 可怕的
"to make a terrible blunder"
犯大错
近义：heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific
反义：innocuous, offenceless, safe, unoffending, benign, harmless
vt. 试图;尝试;
n. 进攻;尝试，冲击;
💡 at一再+tempt尝试→一再尝试 → 尝试，企图
"The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease critics of the regime."
普遍认为，这一举措是试图安抚批评政权的人。
近义：try, essay, intent, assay, shy, stab
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
adj. 潜在的，含蓄的;基础的;表面下的，下层的;[法]优先的;
v. 优先于(underlie的ing形式);构成…的基础（或起因），引起;
💡 under下+ly躺着+ing...的→潜在的;在下面的
"The joke did not obscure the underlying seriousness of his point."
玩笑并没有掩盖他的观点隐含的严肃性.
近义：medullary, pivotal, primal, primordial, basal, basic