I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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enigma
[?'n?gm?]
n. 謎，不可解的事物;
?? enigma- 【希臘傳入拉丁】表示”意義不明的話”
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
俄羅斯是被包藏在一個悶葫蘆里面的神秘物體之中的謎.
近義：mystery, puzzle, puzzler, riddle, unknown
adj. 無害的，不致傷的;沒有受到損失或免于法律責任的;
?? harm傷害+less無...的 → 無害的
"It was just a piece of harmless frivolity."
這僅是無惡意的愚蠢行為。
近義：innocuous, inoffensive, offenceless, safe, unoffending, benign
反義：hurtful, injurious, malign, malignant, negative, noxious
adj. 可怕的;危害極大的;<非正>很糟的;劣質的;
adv. 口〉非常，很，極;
n. 可怕的人;
?? terr怕+ible...的 → 可怕的
"to make a terrible blunder"
犯大錯
近義：heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific
反義：innocuous, offenceless, safe, unoffending, benign, harmless
vt. 試圖;嘗試;
n. 進攻;嘗試，沖擊;
?? at一再+tempt嘗試→一再嘗試 → 嘗試，企圖
"The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease critics of the regime."
普遍認為，這一舉措是試圖安撫批評政權的人。
近義：try, essay, intent, assay, shy, stab
n. 真理;真相，事實;忠實，忠誠;現實，現實性;
?? tru相信，真實+th抽象名詞 →事實，真理
"He adjured them to tell the truth."
他要求他們講真話。
近義：honesty, reality, reliability, sooth, substantiality, truthfulness
反義：hypocrisy, imposture, meretriciousness, phoniness, spuriousness, truthlessness
adj. 潛在的，含蓄的;基礎的;表面下的，下層的;[法]優先的;
v. 優先于(underlie的ing形式);構成…的基礎（或起因），引起;
?? under下+ly躺著+ing...的→潛在的;在下面的
"The joke did not obscure the underlying seriousness of his point."
玩笑并沒有掩蓋他的觀點隱含的嚴肅性.
近義：medullary, pivotal, primal, primordial, basal, basic