But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
— Oscar Wilde  ·  Journalism

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difference ['dɪfrəns] 词频1 词根: di
n. 差别，差异;[数]差数，差额;意见分歧;特色; vt. 辨别，区分;
💡 dif分开，否定，不+fer带来+ence名词后缀→带来不同→不同之处
"The new regulations will not make an appreciable difference to most people."
新的规定对大多数人将无大影响。
近义：inequality, odds, unlikeness, variant, version, inhomogeneity 反义：kindred, kinship, likeness, look, matching, parallel
literature ['lɪtrətʃɚ] 词频2 词根: liter
n. 文学;文学作品;文献;著作;
💡 litera=letter文字,字母+ture状态→文字状态→文学
"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”。
journalism ['dʒə:nəlizəm] 词频5 词根: 日
n. 新闻业;新闻学;新闻工作;报章杂志;
"The article was an excellent piece of investigative journalism ."
这是一篇优秀的调查研究报道。
近义：press
read [rid] 词频1
vt.& vi. 阅读，朗读;显示;研究;看得懂; vt. 显示;阅读;读懂，理解; n. 阅读;读物;读书;里德（人名）; adj. 被朗读的;博识的;博览的;有学问的;
"When we read out 4.23, we say " four point two three "."
我们把4.23读作 四点二三.
近义：say, perusal, reading, knowledgeable, learned, scholarly
unreadable
a. 不能读的, 难辩认的, 平淡无味的, 不值一读的\\n[计] 难辩认的, 不能读的
近义：illegible, incomprehensible, unintelligible 反义：legible

📜 Oscar Wilde 的更多名言

"Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation."
"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity."
"Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not."
"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."
"Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
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🏷 更多「Journalism」名言

"I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
— Norman Mailer
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
— Thomas Jefferson
"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
— A. J. Liebling
"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
— Jimmy Breslin
"Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele."
— Bagdikian's Observation
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