Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
— Mark Twain  ·  No category

📚 名句词汇解析

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fame [fem] 词频1 词根: fam
n. 名声;名望;传闻;传说; vt. 使闻名;使出名;使有名望;<古>盛传;
💡 fa, fabl, fam, fan =speak,表示”说”#词根助记：名声是靠口口相传的
"the Country Music Hall of Fame"
乡村音乐名人堂
近义：name, notoriety, popularity, prestige, remarkableness, renown 反义：belittling, discredit, disrepute
popularity [,pɑpju'lærəti] 词频3 词根: popul
n. 普及;流行;名气，名望，通俗性，大众性;人望;
💡 popul人民+ar...的+ity表名词→popular流行的+ity表名词 → 流行
"Agency France Presse enjoys great popularity both at home and abroad."
法新社在国内外都很有名气.
近义：fame 反义：discredit
accident ['æksədənt] 词频1 词根: 切开
n. 意外事件;事故;机遇，偶然;附属品;
💡 ac一再+cid降下+ent...的→偶然降临的事→偶然的事，意外
"The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident."
法院宣告他对该事故不负任何责任。
近义：hazard, luck, mischance, mishap, casualty, chance 反义：monotone, monotony, regularity, sameness, smoothness, standardization
certainty ['sɝtnti] 词频3 词根: certain
n. 确定性，确实性;确定的事，必然的事;
💡 certain确实的+ty表名词 → 肯定
"Her return to the team now seems a certainty."
她的归队现在似乎已成定局。
近义：assurance, assuredness, obviousness, palpability, patency, positiveness 反义：hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indefinition, indetermination
oblivion [ə'bliviən, ɔ-] 词频5 词根: ob
n. 遗忘;淹没;赦免;
💡 oblivio-, oblivi- 表”忘记”
"He often drinks himself into oblivion."
他常常喝酒喝得不省人事。
近义：obscurity, obsolescence, obsoleteness, desuetude, disuse, lethargy
earthly ['ə:θli] 词频3
adj. 地球的，地上的;尘世的，世俗的;可能的;
"the sorrows of this earthly life"
尘世的悲哀
近义：mundane, subastral, subcelestial, sublunar, sublunary, terrene 反义：heavenly, paradisiacal, saintly, supernal

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"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
"If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas."
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