The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
— Frank Herbert  ·  No category

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function ['fʌŋkʃən] 词频2 词根: funct
n. 功能，作用;应变量，函数;职务;重大聚会; vi. 有或起作用;行使职责;
💡 funct活动+ion表名词 → 功能
"The function of the kidneys is to excrete wastes from the body."
肾的功能是排泄人体里的废物.
近义：ceremony, operate, perform, run, work, interrelation
predict [prɪ'dɪkt] 词频3 词根: pre
vt. 预言，预测;预示，预告; vi. 预言，预示：预言某事，预言;
💡 pre….前的，预先+dict说→预先说→预言
"We can't predict the outcome. There are too many imponderables."
我们无法预测结果。难以逆料的情况太多了。
近义：herald, omen, augur, portend, prefigure, presage 反义：approve, ascertain, prove, ratify, reaffirm, sanction
sometimes ['sʌmtaɪmz] 词频1 词根: sometime
adv. 有时，间或;时而;
💡 sometime某一时间的+s表副词 →有时
"Even friends disagree sometimes."
即便是朋友有时也有分歧。
近义：occasionally, oft, once, rarely, betweentimes, betweenwhiles 反义：invariably, periodically, repeatedly, steadily, usually, consistently
prevent [pri'vɛnt] 词频1 词根: pre
vt. 预防;阻碍;阻止;[宗教]引领; vi. 阻挠，阻止;
💡 pre预先+vent来→抢先一步，防止别人→防止，阻止
"The fence is strategically sited to prevent anyone getting onto the beach."
这个围栏的地点选择得很有策略,可以阻止任何人到海滩上.
近义：hinder, impede, inhibit, obstruct, obviate, avert 反义：promote, encourage, favor, favour, forward, foster
science ['saɪəns] 词频1 词根: sci
n. 科学;技术，知识;学科;理科;
💡 sci知道+ence名词后缀 → 科学；学问
"a degree in computer science"
计算机科学学位
future ['fjʊtʃɚ] 词频1
adj. 将来的，未来的;[语法学]将来时的; n. 前途;[美国俚语]未婚妻;期货;
💡 futur- 【拉丁传入法语】表示将来的某种状态
"We all work hard in the interests of our future."
我们都为我们自己的将来而努力工作.
近义：next, oncoming, unborn, coming, forthcoming 反义：prior

📜 Frank Herbert 的更多名言

"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person."
"Truth is subject to too much analysis."
"It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future."
"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person."
"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh."
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."
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🏷 更多「No category」名言

"Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her."
— William Shakespeare
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."
— Abraham Lincoln
"By trying, we can endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
— Mark Twain
"Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget."
— Unknown
"Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."
— Sir Richard Francis Burton
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
— G. K. Chesterton
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