We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.
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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
n. 意志;目的;作用;（进行中的）行动;
vt. 有意;打算;企图（做）;决意（做）;
💡 pur始终+pose放→始终放的东西→目的，意图
"We spoke to little purpose — his mind was clearly made up already."
我们说的话几乎不起作用,他显然已下定决心了.
近义：intend, consider, appoint, ascribe, denote, designate
n. 萎靡不振，沮丧;下陷处，坑;衰弱;减缓;
💡 de向下+press挤压+ion名词后缀 → 向下挤压 → 沮丧；萧条
"She suffered from severe depression after losing her job."
她失业后患了严重的抑郁症。
近义：weariness, decay, decline, dejection, desolation, despond
反义：hilarity, jollification, jolliness, jollity, joyance, joyfulness
adj. 精神的;心灵的;高尚的，崇高的;宗教的;
n. 圣歌（尤指美国南部黑人的）;教会事物;
💡 spirit精神+ual...的 →精神的；宗教的
"a spiritual that segued into a singalong chorus"
一首转为会众集体跟唱的灵歌
近义：unworldly, church, clerical, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical
反义：worldly, temporal, earthly, earthy
n. 中部，中间;腰部;中央;正中;
adj. 中部的;中央的;正中的;中间的;
vt. 把…放在中间;把…对折;
vi. 放在中间;对折;
"The area contains a disproportionate number of young middle-class families."
此地年轻的中产阶级家庭特别多。
近义：midpoint, midst, average, center, centre, waist
反义：stub, terminal, tip, butt, extreme, extremity
n. 位;地方;职位;座位;
vt. 放置;获名次;投资;评价;
vi. 得名次;名列前茅;[美国英语][赛马]得第二名;准确把…推到预定地点;
"The evening party will take place on New Year's Eve."
晚会将在除夕那天举行.
近义：lay, locate, marshal, park, posit, position
反义：move, rob, take, budge, tumble, discharge