Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
— Simone Weil  ·  No category

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culture ['kʌltʃɚ] 词频2 词根: cult
n. 文化;[生物学]（微生物等的）培养;修养;养殖; vt. 培植，培养;
💡 cult耕种，培养+ure抽象名词→[对心灵的]培养→人类文化
"the otherness of an alien culture"
异域文化的不同情调
近义：incubate, breed, cultivate, hatch, socialize, civilise 反义：philistinism, barbarism, roughness
instrument ['ɪnstrəmənt] 词频2 词根: in
n. 仪器;手段，工具;乐器;法律文件; vt. 用仪器装备;为演奏谱曲;向…提交文书;
💡 in内+stru=struct建立+ment表名词→内部结构→仪器；工具
"The despot claimed to be the chosen instrument of divine providence."
专制者声称自己是上天选定的统治工具.
近义：assemble, orchestrate, organise, organize, implement, tool
manufacture ['mænjə'fæktʃɚ] 词频1 词根: manu
vt. 制造，生产;捏造，虚构;加工;从事制造; n. 制造;制成品，产品;工业，工厂;（文学作品等的）粗制滥造;
💡 manu手+fact做，制作+ure名词后缀→手做→制造业（机器发明前用手做）
"The date of manufacture of the jewellery has not been authenticated."
这些珠宝的制造日期尚未经证实.
近义：make, produce, brew, craft, create, elaborate 反义：impair, kill, mar, obliterate, rack, ravage
turn [tɝn] 词频1 词根: 扭转
vt.& vi. 使转动;旋转;使改变方向;使不适; vt. 使变酸;使变换;使变为; n. 翻转;（路线或方向的）改变;机会;
"The government did an about-turn over nuclear energy."
政府对核能的态度来了个180度的大转变。
近义：loop, slew, swerve, veer, wind, bend 反义：reerect, right, straighten, unfold, untwist
wielded
v. 手持着使用（武器、工具等）( wield的过去式和过去分词 ); 具有; 运用（权力）; 施加（影响）
professors
n. 教授( professor的复数形式 ); （大学的）讲师, 教员

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