A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
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n. 社会;上流社会;社团;社群;
adj. 上流社会的,社交界的;
💡 socie=social社会+ty表名词 → 社会,社团
"Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society."
文明社会憎恶种族主义。
近义:aristoi, community, institution, merging, partnership, brotherhood
反义:personhood, self, selfhood, distinctiveness, individual
n. 同等,平等;[数]相等,等式;
💡 equ相等,平均+ality名词后缀 → 平等
"Liberty, equality. Fraternity?"
自由,平等。博爱乎?
近义:owelty, par, parity, selfsameness, similarity, compatibility
反义:odds, unevenness, unlikeness, inhomogeneity, inequation, difference
adv. 在(某人或某事物的)前面;向前;预先;在将来,为未来;
💡 a在…,…的+head头→在前地
"Ahead of them was a gaping abyss."
他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
近义:on, onward, thereinafter, before, along, forward
反义:back, fro
n. 自由,自主;直率;特权,特许;自由权;
💡 free自由的+dom状态或领域 →自由
"He made a bid for freedom by climbing over the wall."
他企图翻越这面高墙以获得自由.
近义:independence, liberty, autocracy, autonomy, emancipation, loosening
反义:peonage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom, vassalage, bondage
neither
['niðɚ]
adj. (两者)都不的;
pron. 两者都不;
adv. 两个都不;既不…也不;
conj. 也不;既不;
💡 n(not)+either→既非;皆不;两者都不
"Neither party is willing to compromise and herein lies the problem."
双方都不愿意妥协,问题就在这里。
近义:no, either
反义:likewise, moreover, too, withal, besides, then