An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
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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
n. 疾病;弊端;不安;
vt. 传染;使…有病;
💡 dis(apart)+ease→疾病
"About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease."
全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。
近义：ill, malady, illness, complaint, condition, affliction
反义：healthiness, liveness, salubrity, salutariness, sanitation, sparkle
vt.& vi. 走过;通过;批准;度过;
vt. 传球;及格;发生;不要;
n. 通道;通行证;关口;越过;
💡 pass(pass)→通过；经过；传递；使及格；度过
"I'm not old enough for my bus pass yet!"
我还不到领取免费乘车票的年龄。
近义：outpace, overtake, lapse, occur, elapse, happen
反义：flop, flunk, founder
unsuitable
[ʌn'sutəbl]
adj. 不合适的，不适宜的，不相称的;锄悟难入;不当;
💡 un 不+suit 适合+able 能...的 → 不适合的；不相称的
"He was wearing shoes that were totally unsuitable for climbing."
他穿了一双完全不适合登山的鞋子。
近义：improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incompatible, irrelevant
反义：appropriate, apt, passable, pat, average, proper
adj. 性的，有性别的;性欲的;生殖的;[生]有性的;
"Dr Puts is looking at how sexual selection gave rise to certain human traits."
普茨博士一直在探讨性选择如何提升人类的某些特质。
近义：sex
反义：sexless, agamic
adj. …制的;（人工）做成的，拼成的;虚构的;保证成功的;
v. 使(make的过去式和过去分词);
"He made it absolutely clear."
他把此事讲得一清二楚。
近义：manufactured, produced, done, fabricated, artificial, manmade