America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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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
adv. 直接地;不久，立即;正好地，恰好地;坦率地;
conj. 一…就…;
💡 di使...变成+rect直+ly…地 →direct直接的+ly...地 → 直接地
"My salary is paid directly into my bank."
我的工资直接拨到我的银行。
近义：right, straight, straightaway, straightway, direct, openly
反义：surreptitiously, desguisedly, later, next, presently, shortly
n. 间隔;幕间休息;（数学）区间;
💡 inter(between)+val(wall)→间隔；距离；差异
"The interval between major earthquakes might be 200 years."
大地震之间的间隔时间可能有200年。
近义：interlude, intermission, lapse, pause, recess, span
n. 文明，文化;开化，教化;修养;文明社会;
💡 civil市民；礼貌+ization...化→文明 → 文明，文化
"Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse."
文明已濒临毁灭的边缘。
近义：humanity, mankind, world, civilisation, kultur, culture
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
adj. 过去的;用完了;死去的;无望的，无可挽救的;
v. go的过去分词;
"He's gone AWOL from his base."
他从基地开了小差。
近义：absent, missing, departed