Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
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axiom
['æksɪəm]
n. 公理;自明之理;原理;格言;
💡 axi有价值+om → 数学上很有价值的推论 → [数] 公理;格言;自明之理
"It is a widely held axiom that they should not negotiate with terrorists."
他们不应与恐怖分子谈判是普遍接受的公理.
近义:law, principle, rule, tenet
n. 历史,历史学;发展史;履历,经历;(某地的)沿革;
💡 histor过去发生的事 + y 表名词→ 历史;个人经历
"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:archives, papers, past, background, record, records
intrigue
['ɪn'triɡ]
n. 密谋,阴谋;私通,奸情;
vi. 耍阴谋;
vt. 以谋略达成;激起…的好奇心;
💡 in(in)+trigue(=tric,obstacle)→阴谋;策划阴谋;引起…的兴趣
"Qu Yuan suffered banishment as the victim of a court intrigue."
屈原成为朝廷中钩心斗角的牺牲品,因而遭到放逐.
近义:mystify, nonplus, perplex, baffle, puzzle, discountenance
反义:illustrate, inspire, kindle, illuminate, edify, educate
n. 天才;天赋;天才人物;(特别的)才能;
💡 geni出生,产生+us用→生出[就有]→天才
"the genius of Shakespeare"
莎士比亚的天才
近义:sage, savant, intellect, intelligence, invention, knack
反义:idiocy, imbecility, inanity, asininity, ludicrousness, nonsense
n. 革命;彻底改变;旋转;运行,公转;
💡 re(反复)+volu(卷)+tion(名缀):反复卷来卷去的过程- 革命{分久必合,合久必分}
"The earth makes a yearly revolution around the sun."
地球每年绕太阳一周.
近义:rev, rotation, spin, turning, twirl, whirl
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