Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
— Unknown  ·  No category

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knowledge ['nɑlɪdʒ] 词频1 词根: 知道
n. 了解，理解;知识（表示多方面的知识时有复数knowledges这一用法）;学科;见闻;
💡 know知道+ledge框架 → 知识
"She has acquired a good knowledge of English."
她英语已经学得很好。
近义：idea, learning, notion, background, sageness, sapience 反义：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
instrument ['ɪnstrəmənt] 词频2 词根: in
n. 仪器;手段，工具;乐器;法律文件; vt. 用仪器装备;为演奏谱曲;向…提交文书;
💡 in内+stru=struct建立+ment表名词→内部结构→仪器；工具
"The despot claimed to be the chosen instrument of divine providence."
专制者声称自己是上天选定的统治工具.
近义：assemble, orchestrate, organise, organize, implement, tool
production [prə'dʌkʃən] 词频1 词根: pro
n. 生产，制作;产品;产量;夸张的行动或形象，小题大做;
💡 product生产+ion名词后缀→生产
"We were for cutting down the cost of production."
我们赞成降低成本.
近义：industry, manufacture, manufacturing, output, outturn, preparation
subject [ˈsʌbdʒekt] 词频1 词根: sub
n. 主题，话题;学科，科目;[哲]主观; adj. 须服从…的;（在君主等）统治下的; v. 提供，提出;使…隶属;
💡 sub在…下面+ject投掷，扔→扔下去→服从的，扔下去让大家讨论的主题 → 主题，主观；服从的
"She was dreading having to broach the subject of money to her father."
她正在为不得不向父亲提出钱的事犯愁。
近义：overpower, subdue, subjugate, submit, subordinate, tyrannize 反义：loose, save, deliver, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate
returns [[ri'tə:nz]]
n. 回报；收益；退货（return的复数）
近义：income, proceeds, revenues, takings, outcome, result
diminishing
v. 减少；衰减；递减；削弱…的权势（diminish的现在分词）
近义：reducing, lessening, reduction, remission, shrinkage, squeeze 反义：increasing, incremental, ascendant, ascendent, ascending, mounting

📜 Unknown 的更多名言

"'Where did you put it?' 'Put what?' 'You know?' 'Where do you think?' 'Oh.'"
"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast."
"The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe."
"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there."
"Every time you are not practicing someone else is."
"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."
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"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?"
— Jeremy Bentham
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."
— George Eliot
"You can't legislate against rumor."
— Unknown
"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe."
— Lord Salisbury
"All is for the best in the best of all possible ways."
— Voltaire
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