Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
— H. G. Wells  ·  No category

📚 名句词汇解析

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human ['hjumən] 词频1 词根: hum
n. 人，人类; adj. 人的;有人性的;显示人类特有弱点的;人本性的;
💡 hum土,地+an名词后缀，属于...的，传说人是由土造出的 → 人类
"The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump."
老师打了个比喻，把人的心脏比作水泵。
近义：mortal
history ['hɪstri] 词频1
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
education [,ɛdʒu'keʃən] 词频1 词根: duc
n. 教育;教育学;培养;训练;
💡 e出+duc引导，带来+ation行为 → 引出知识的行为 → 教育
"a special adviser to the President on education"
总统的教育特别顾问
近义：schooling, instruction, learning, background, schoolteaching, teaching 反义：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
catastrophe [kə'tæstrəfi] 词频4 词根: stroph
n. 大灾难;惨败;悲剧的结局;地表突然而猛烈的变动，灾变;
💡 cata向下+strophe转→转下去→灾难临头→灾难，大祸
"Early warnings of rising water levels prevented another major catastrophe."
提前发出的洪水水位上涨警报防止了又一次的重大灾害。
近义：apocalypse, holocaust, tragedy, calamity, cataclysm, debacle
race [res] 词频1
n. 赛跑;人种;竞争;民族; v. 参加比赛;快速移动;空转;
💡 比赛跑（r=run）第一（ace，扑克a）
"Much to his chagrin, he did not win the race."
使他大为懊恼的是他赛跑没获胜.
近义：hurry, nip, run, scurry, speed, sprint 反义：pace
becomes
v. 变为, 成为( become的第三人称单数 ); 适合; 使（人）显得漂亮; 使好看

📜 H. G. Wells 的更多名言

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."
"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."
"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."
"If we don't end war, war will end us."
"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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