The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
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holocaust
['hɑləkɔst]
n. 大屠杀;浩劫;毁灭;
💡 holo全部+caust烧→全部烧光→大火灾
"The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust."
奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀.
近义：apocalypse, tragedy, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, conflagration
adj. 淫秽的;下流的;猥亵的;可憎的;
💡 obscen- 表”恶心的,令人憎恶的”
"The law is the final arbiter of what is considered obscene."
何谓猥亵最终由法律裁决。
近义：immodest, immoral, impudent, indecent, iniquitous, lascivious
反义：pure, vestal, chaste
n. 时期;（一段）时间;学时;句号;
adj. 具有某个时代特征的;（关于）过去某一特定历史时期的;（家具、服饰、建筑等）某一时代的;
💡 peri周围，靠近+od道路→周期
"The overthrow of the military regime was followed by a period of anarchy."
军事统治政权被推翻以后，接着是一段时期的无政府状态。
近义：term, time, season, spell, bout, chapter
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
n. 百年，一世纪;百个;（板球）一百分;<美>百元钞票;
💡 cent 表”百”; 十进制中表小数点的前缀
"The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century."
通常认为，蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。
n. 国家;民族;国民;政府;
💡 那(na)梯(ti)上(on)有 国家
"The nation's coffers are empty."
国库空虚。
近义：region, country, people, commonwealth