History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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
adj. 令人难于忍受的;难堪的;令人厌烦的;
v. 试图( try的现在分词);试验,尝试;审讯;
💡 try(考验)+ing(形容词后缀)→难堪的;使人痛苦的
"an ageing pop star trying to stage a comeback"
试图重返歌坛的已经上了年纪的流行音乐歌星
近义:arduous, irksome, labored, laborious, nagging, nervy
adj. 醒着的;警惕的;
vt.& vi. 唤醒;唤起;觉悟;
💡 a加强意义+wake醒着→唤醒,使醒
"Suddenly he found himself awake and fully alert."
突然他发觉自己醒了过来,而且高度警觉。
近义:awaken, rouse, wake, waken, arouse, revive
反义:kip, sleeping, dormant
n. 噩梦;<口>可怕的事情,无法摆脱的恐惧;泛滥成灾;紧张;
adj. 可怕的,噩梦似的;
💡 夜晚(night)梦到母马(mare)坐床上是 噩梦 网友:yqy补充: night晚上,mare母马:晚上梦到和母马在一起--恶梦
"My attempt to get a new passport turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare."
我试图申请新护照的过程变成了一场官样文章的噩梦。
近义:phantom, specter
📜 James Joyce 的更多名言
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives."