Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
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n. 运输，输送;（旧时载客的）四轮马车;〈英〉火车客车车厢;运费;
💡 carri=carry运输+age表物厢 →马车，客车
"I dismissed the carriage and walked the last mile."
我把马车打发走了,徒步走完最后一英里路.
近义：landau, chariot, clarence, portage, porterage, transport
n. 距离，路程;远处;疏远;（时间的）间隔，长久;
vt. 把…远远甩在后面;疏远;与…保持距离;
💡 dist距离 + ance 表名词，状态、情况、性质、行为 → n.距离,间距;远处
"A peal of church bells rang out in the distance."
远处响起了一阵教堂的钟声。
近义：isolation, separation, estrangement, aloofness, distantial, separate
反义：approximate, abut, immediacy, nearness, neighborhood, neighbourhood
vt. 保持;保留;遵守;阻止;
vi. （食品）保持新;保持健康;
n. 保持，保养;供养，抚养;生活，生计;饲料；牧草;
"Social services keep lists of at-risk children ."
社工组织保留有在家里可能遭受伤害的孩子名单。
近义：hold, husband, maintain, reserve, retain, save
反义：transfer, cede, give, transgress, trespass, violate
n. 马;骑马的军人，骑兵;有脚的架;跳马，鞍马;
vt. 为…备马;猛推或用力向上举;
vi. 欲交配，，用于母马;
adj. 马的;骑在马背上的;马拉的，使用马力的;较大的，较粗硬的;
💡 音“祸事”，塞翁失 马焉知非福
"the anatomy of the horse"
马的身体构造
近义：mount, equine, horsy
n. 象，大象;
💡 大象尾巴上有蚂蚁(ant)
"The new office block has become an expensive white elephant."
这座新办公大楼成了昂贵的摆设。
近义：jumbo
adj. 邪恶的;缺德的;淘气的，顽皮的;恶劣的;
💡 wick(未可，谐音)+ed(的): 邪恶的是不可的
"From beginning to end his conduct had been despicable and wicked."
从头到尾他的行为既卑鄙又可恶.
近义：ignoble, ill, immoral, infamous, iniquitous, low
反义：kind, softhearted, tender, decent, good, goodhearted