Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
— Tom Clancy  ·  No category

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education [,ɛdʒu'keʃən] 词频1 词根: duc
n. 教育;教育学;培养;训练;
💡 e出+duc引导，带来+ation行为 → 引出知识的行为 → 教育
"a special adviser to the President on education"
总统的教育特别顾问
近义：schooling, instruction, learning, background, schoolteaching, teaching 反义：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
wall [wɔl] 词频1
n. 墙;屏障;隔阂;壁垒; vt.& vi. 筑墙围住，用墙隔开;围以墙; adj. 墙壁的;
💡 vall- 墙,壁垒;桩线
"new offices with wall-to-wall carpeting"
房内铺满地毯的新办公室
近义：hem, rail, rampart, surround, fence, parament 反义：level, overthrow, ravage, raze, shipwreck, strip
people ['pipl] 词频1 词根: 公众
n. 人，人类;居民;人民;种族; vt. 居住于，布满;使住满人，在…殖民;把动物放养在;
💡 popul, publ 表”人民”
"I can't abide people with no sense of humour."
我讨厌和没有幽默感的人打交道。
近义：populate, settle, crowd, individuals, persons, folks 反义：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke
rebate ['ribet] 词根: bat
n. 折扣;回扣; vt. 减少;打折;
💡 re回，向后+bat打，走+e→打回去的东西→减少；回扣
"You can claim a rebate on your tax."
你可以要求退回部分税款.
近义：sink, trim, cheapen, markdown, reduction, subtraction 反义：endear
ninety ['naɪnti] 词频1
num. 九十; n. 九十;九十年代;九十岁; adj. 九十的;九十岁的;
💡 nine九+ty十 →九十
"He is ninety years old, but his mind is sharp."
他虽然90岁了, 但头脑还很灵活.
percent [pɚ'sɛnt] 词根: cent
n. 百分比，百分数;百分之一; adj. 百分之…的，每一百中有…的;百分之…支付利息的; adv. 以百分之…地，每一百中有…地;
💡 per贯穿，自始自终+cent一百→百分比
"A conflagration in 1947 reduced 90 percent of the houses to ashes."
1947年的一场大火,使90%的房屋化为灰烬.
近义：percentage, part, portion, fragment, cud, quid

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