Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
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vt. 歪曲，扭曲;曲解;使變形;
vi. 扭曲;變形;
?? dis不+tort扭轉→扭壞了→曲解
"How dare he distort the facts so brazenly!"
他怎么敢如此肆無忌憚地歪曲事實!
近義：hide, misconstrue, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, tint
反義：mend, remedy, repair, right, correct, emend
int. 請;
vt.& vi. 使高興;使滿意;討人喜歡;討好;
?? please(please)→取悅；使高興；喜歡；愿意；請
"Please be quiet. I have to study the book for a test tomorrow."
請不要說話了, 明天要考試,我得看書.
近義：humor, oblige, pleasure, recompense, recreate, repay
反義：undeceive, disenthrall, disappoint, discontent, dishearten, dissatisfy
n. 統計，統計學，統計法，統計資料;統計數字;“statistic”的復數;
?? statist站，立+ics名詞后綴，學科→站著去計算數據的學科→統計學
"It's not easy to disentangle the truth from the official statistics."
從官方統計資料中理出真實情況并不容易。
近義：statistic
adj. 易彎的;柔韌的;柔順的;能適應的;
?? pli重疊，折疊+able能...的→易折疊的 → 易彎的；柔順的
"Willow twigs are pliable."
柳條很軟.
近義：malleable, plastic, pliant, tractable, yielding, collapsible
反義：rigid, stiff, tough, wiry
n. 第一，最初;頭等;一號，;[樂]高音部;
adv. 最早，最初;首次;寧愿;優先;
adj. 第一流的;最初的，最早的;基本的，概要的;高音的;
num. 第一;
?? 泰森 第一拳(fist)打在稻草(r)人身上，訓練
"Freud first mentioned this concept in his paper'On Narcissism '."
弗洛伊德在他的論文《論自戀》中首次提到了這個概念.
近義：initial, beginning, prime, foremost, initiative, preliminary
反義：hindermost, hindmost, latest, latter, rearmost, utmost
adj. 頑固的，固執的;頑強的或有決心的;堅持的;棘手的;
?? 死大笨（諧音）:該死的大笨蛋- 固執的 頑固的 stub(死大伯，諧音)+born(出生):死大伯生來就 固執的 網友：yqy 補充：在殘余（stub）之年也固
"He's as stubborn as a mule ."
他像騾子一樣倔。
近義：headstrong, insolent, insubordinate, intractable, intransigent, mulish
反義：assenting, pleasing, pliant, accommodating, tolerant, complaisant