Civility sometimes requires polite ruthlessness. Establish that what you prize most is civility.
— Jimmy Bise Jr.  ·  No category

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civility [sə'vɪləti] 词频4 词根: 城市
n. 礼貌;客气;礼仪;客套;
💡 civil市民；礼貌+ity表名词→谦恭有礼 → 谦恭，礼仪
"Staff members are trained to treat customers with civility at all times."
全体职员接受训练，以便在任何时候对顾客都以礼相待。
近义：praise, bouquet, commendation, compliment, courtesy, attentiveness 反义：impoliteness, rudeness, scurrility, solecism, uncouthness, unkindness
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
establish [ɪˈstæblɪʃ] 词频1 词根: e
vt. 建立，创建;确立或使安全;使被安排好;使成为;
💡 e使...+stabl=stable牢固的+ish表动词，“造成…” →设立，建造
"She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory."
她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室.
近义：implement, appoint, inaugurate, inchoate, initiate, install 反义：invalidate, abrogate, negate, nullify, outlaw, proscribe
prize [praɪz] 词频1 词根: prize
n. 奖赏;战利品;值得努力争取的东西; vt. 珍视，珍惜;估价; adj. 获奖的，有望获奖的;理应获奖的;
💡 prehend, pris 抓住,夺取,获得#词根助记：战利品要靠自己抓取
"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"."
2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言，他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
近义：appraise, appreciate, assay, regard, relish, respect 反义：reject, remonstrate, underestimate, undervalue, reprove, downplay
polite [pə'lait] 词频2 词根: 城市
adj. 有礼貌的;有教养的，文雅的;上流社会的;应酬的，客套的;
💡 police(警察）特(t)有polite（礼貌）
"He was quite polite, but he wasn't ready to help me."
他相当有礼貌, 但他并不愿意帮我.
近义：heedful, kind, mannerly, mindful, obliging, attentive 反义：indelicate, uncouth, foulmouthed, discourteous
ruthlessness
n. 无情；冷酷；残忍
近义：heartlessness, inclemency, inhumanity, soullessness, truculence, truculency

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