Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
— Edmund Burke  ·  Wisdom

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society [sə'saɪəti] 词频1 词根: soci
n. 社会;上流社会;社团;社群; adj. 上流社会的，社交界的;
💡 socie=social社会+ty表名词 → 社会，社团
"Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society."
文明社会憎恶种族主义。
近义：aristoi, community, institution, merging, partnership, brotherhood 反义：personhood, self, selfhood, distinctiveness, individual
exist [ɪɡ'zɪst] 词频1 词根: sist
vi. 存在;生存;生活;继续存在;
💡 ex出+ist站立→站出来→活下来→存在，生存
"There exist many sources of energy both potential and kinetic."
存在着许多势能和动能的能源.
近义：be, live, subsist
appetite ['æpɪtaɪt] 词频2 词根: pet
n. 欲望;胃口，食欲;嗜好，爱好;
💡 ap加强动作+pet追寻，寻求+ite表名词→一再追求→有胃口
"He suffered from headaches and loss of appetite ."
他患有头痛和食欲不振。
近义：hunger, stomach, taste, appetence, appetency, appetition 反义：apathy, indifference, weariness, apositia, hyporexia, anorexia
somewhere ['sʌmwɛr] 词频1
adv. 某处，在某处;在[到]某处;不知道在[到]什么地方;某地;
💡 some某个+where哪里 → 在某处
"I'm sure I could buy this more cheaply somewhere else."
我相信我能在别的地方更便宜地买到这种物品。
近义：someplace
unless [ən'lɛs] 词频1
conj. 除非，如果不; prep. 除了，…除外;
"The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge."
如果没有更多的作家和艺术家出现，这个国家的文化生活将衰退。
近义：save, except
power ['paʊɚ] 词频1 词根: 力量
n. [机]动力，功率;力量;政权，权力;强国，大国; vt. 运转;用发动机发动;使…有力量; vi. 靠动力行进;快速行进; adj. 权力的;机械能的，电动的;用电力（或动力）发动的;
"The engine is being specially adapted to increase its power."
正在对这台引擎进行改装以增加它的功率.
近义：move, operate, activate, actuate, energise, energize 反义：incapacity, powerlessness, weariness, impotency, impotentness, impossibility

📜 Edmund Burke 的更多名言

"He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
"Good order is the foundation of all things."
"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
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🏷 更多「Wisdom」名言

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare
"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."
— Walt Whitman
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ."
— Unknown
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
— Titus Maccius Plautus
"No man is wise enough by himself."
— Titus Maccius Plautus
"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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