One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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vt.& vi. 怀孕;构思;想像,设想;持有;
vi. 怀孕;设想;考虑;
💡 con共同+ceive拿,抓,握住→想象;构想
"You may conceive a new world in the atomic age."
你可以设想出原子时代的新世界.
近义:visualize, imagine, surmise, figure, ideate, invent
n. 哲学家,哲人;思想家,学者;豁达的人;爱卖弄大道理者;
💡 philo爱+soph智慧+er者→哲学家,思想家
"the Greek philosopher Aristotle"
希腊哲学家亚里士多德
近义:thinker, philosophe
adj. 陌生的,生疏的;奇怪的,古怪的;疏远的;外国的;
adv. 奇怪地;陌生地;冷淡地;
💡 事真奇”(谐音)即 奇怪的
"a strange concatenation of events"
一连串奇怪的事
近义:odd, offbeat, outlandish, quaint, queer, queerish
反义:inartistic, artless, modest, mundane, normal, average
implausible
[im'plɔ:zəbl]
adj. 难以置信的,似乎不合情理的,不太可能的;
"Alternatives which are extremely implausible need not be discussed at all."
尤其没有必要讨论那些令人难以置信的替代方案.
近义:illogical, imaginary, improbable, inconclusive, invalid, lame
反义:likely, attainable, possible, verisimilar, believable, colourable
adj. [律]上述的;少说为妙;(做)某事有/没有很多优点(或好处):某事物有/没有多少可说的;说到底;
v. 说,讲( say的过去式和过去分词 );表明;念;说明;
"Afterwards she was sorry for what she'd said."
后来她后悔说了那些话。
近义:indicated, spoken, stated, this, aforementioned, aforesaid
adj. 又一个;再一个;另一的;其他一种;
pron. 另一个,别个;再一个;
"The company has now amalgamated with another local firm."
这家公司现在已与当地一家公司合并了。
近义:other