History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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從本句名言中提取的重要詞匯，幫助你深度理解這句話
n. 歷史，歷史學;發展史;履歷，經歷;（某地的）沿革;
?? histor過去發生的事 + y 表名詞→ 歷史；個人經歷
"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"."
2012年諾貝爾文學獎得主為莫言，他“很好地將魔幻現實與民間故事、歷史與當代結合在一起”。
近義：archives, papers, past, background, record, records
adj. 令人難于忍受的;難堪的;令人厭煩的;
v. 試圖( try的現在分詞);試驗，嘗試;審訊;
?? try(考驗)+ing(形容詞后綴)→難堪的；使人痛苦的
"an ageing pop star trying to stage a comeback"
試圖重返歌壇的已經上了年紀的流行音樂歌星
近義：arduous, irksome, labored, laborious, nagging, nervy
adj. 醒著的;警惕的;
vt.& vi. 喚醒;喚起;覺悟;
?? a加強意義+wake醒著→喚醒，使醒
"Suddenly he found himself awake and fully alert."
突然他發覺自己醒了過來，而且高度警覺。
近義：awaken, rouse, wake, waken, arouse, revive
反義：kip, sleeping, dormant
n. 噩夢;<口>可怕的事情，無法擺脫的恐懼;泛濫成災;緊張;
adj. 可怕的，噩夢似的;
?? 夜晚(night)夢到母馬(mare)坐床上是 噩夢 網友：yqy補充： night晚上，mare母馬：晚上夢到和母馬在一起－－惡夢
"My attempt to get a new passport turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare."
我試圖申請新護照的過程變成了一場官樣文章的噩夢。
近義：phantom, specter
?? James Joyce 的更多名言
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives."
?? 更多「No category」名言
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him."
— Arthur C. Clarke