I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
— Lisa Alther  ·  Intelligence

📚 名句词汇解析

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happen ['hæpən] 词频1
vi. 发生;碰巧;出现;偶然遇到;
💡 hap(luck)+pen(动词后缀)→发生；偶然发生；碰巧
"It's frightening to think it could happen again."
想到此事可能再次发生就使人不寒而栗。
近义：arise, issue, occur, pass, supervene, transpire
person ['pɝsn] 词频1 词根: per
n. 人;（语法）人称;身体;容貌;
💡 person-, parson- 表”人类”
"The aforementioned person was seen acting suspiciously."
有人看见前面提到的那个人行动可疑。
近义：individual, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke, blighter 反义：assemblage, assembly, mass, mob, multitude, party
intelligence [ɪn'tɛlɪdʒəns] 词频2 词根: intel
n. 智力;聪颖;情报;情报机构;
💡 intel在…中间+lig选择，收集+ence名词后缀→从中选出好的→智力
"She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence."
她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足.
近义：aptness, intellect, invention, argument, knack, mentality
directly [daɪ'rɛktli] 词频1
adv. 直接地;不久，立即;正好地，恰好地;坦率地; conj. 一…就…;
💡 di使...变成+rect直+ly…地 →direct直接的+ly...地 → 直接地
"My salary is paid directly into my bank."
我的工资直接拨到我的银行。
近义：right, straight, straightaway, straightway, direct, openly 反义：surreptitiously, desguisedly, later, next, presently, shortly
number ['nʌmbɚ] 词频1 词根: number
n. 数字;数量;号码;编号; v. 标号;总计;把…算作;
💡 numer, number 表示”数字”;”计算”,”估算”
"The number of people employed in agriculture has fallen in the last decade."
过去十年，农业从业人数已经下降。
近义：numerate, reckon, recount, sum, tally, cipher 反义：remove, subduct, take, withdraw, deduct
topic ['tɑpɪk] 词频3
n. 主题;话题，论题;标题，细目;
💡 top题目+ic...学→题目，论题
"a topic much discussed in barrooms across the country"
全国各地酒吧间议论纷纷的话题
近义：issue, item, matter, motif, particular, point

🏷 更多「Intelligence」名言

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— Harriet Martineau
"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
— Laurence J. Peter
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
— Bill Watterson
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
— Don Herold
"A mind too active is no mind at all."
— Theodore Roethke
"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
— George Bernard Shaw
"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."
— Robert J. Shiller
"You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons."
— Unknown
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
— Henrik Tikkanen
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