One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
— Kurt Vonnegut  ·  Television

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television ['tɛlɪvɪʒn] 词根: tele
n. 电视，电视机;电视节目;电视业;
💡 tele远，电+vis看+ion表名词 →看电视要离远点 → 电视（机）
"the adverts on television"
电视广告
近义：t.v., tv, gogglebox
vain [ven] 词频1 词根: 空
adj. 徒劳的;自负的;无结果的;无用的;
💡 vain(empty)→无效的；空虚的
"She's just a vain, foolish woman."
她不过是个愚蠢自负的女人。
近义：immodest, infatuated, inflated, insolent, arrogant, assuming 反义：low, lowly, meek, mild, modest, unassuming
modern ['mɔdən] 词频1 词根: 模式
adj. 现代的;近代的;新式的;当代风格的; n. 现代人，现代主义者;时髦人士;[印]现代字体，指印刷中所用的一种字体;
💡 音“摩登
"The monarchy is seen by many people as an anachronism in the modern world."
很多人认为君主制在现代世界不合时宜。
近义：mod, new, newfangled, novel, recent, unworn
horribly [['hɔrəbli]] 词频5
adv. 可怕地, 非常地
近义：heinously, horrendously, horridly, horrifically, horrifyingly, awfully
times [taimz]
n. 时代;有时;总是;落后于时代;时间( time的名词复数 );时机;时代;所需时间; prep. 乘，乘以;
"I called several times, but only got the answering machine."
我打了几次电话，但只有电话答录机答话。
近义：epochs
things
n. 所有物, 财产, 用具, 用品, 局面, 形势, 情况\\n[法] 物
近义：oddments, stuff, doings, articles, etceteras

📜 Kurt Vonnegut 的更多名言

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"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
"Humor is an almost physiological response to fear."
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— David Frost
"MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's."
— Doug Ferrari
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
— Clive Barnes
"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
— Alfred Hitchcock
"Television has raised writing to a new low."
— Samuel Goldwyn
"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."
— Marlon Brando
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