I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.
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?? 名句詞匯解析
從本句名言中提取的重要詞匯，幫助你深度理解這句話
vt. 更喜歡;提升，提拔;給予（債權人）優先權;提出（控告）;
vi. 更喜歡，寧愿;
?? pre預先+fer帶來，拿來→預先帶好→更喜歡
"The play is okay, but I still prefer the book."
戲還可以, 可我仍愿讀原著.
近義：select, choose
反義：loathe, scorn, scout, slight, spurn, underestimate
n. 復雜性，錯綜復雜的狀態;復雜的事物;復合物;
?? com共同+plex重疊+ity名詞后綴 →復雜性
"an organization of byzantine complexity"
拜占庭式復雜詭秘死板的機構
近義：intricacy, mess, sophistication, complicacy, complication, gnarliness
反義：homeliness, ingenuousness, innocence, artlessness, naivete, naivety
n. 確定性，確實性;確定的事，必然的事;
?? certain確實的+ty表名詞 → 肯定
"Her return to the team now seems a certainty."
她的歸隊現在似乎已成定局。
近義：assurance, assuredness, obviousness, palpability, patency, positiveness
反義：hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indefinition, indetermination
adj. 歡樂的，高興的;令人愉快的;
?? cheer歡樂+ful表形容詞，“有…的” →快樂的
"You're not your usual cheerful self today."
你今天不像往常那么快快樂樂的。
近義：lively, happy, jaunty, jocular, jolly, jovial
反義：heartbroken, heartsick, hopeless, inconsolable, melancholic, melancholy
adj. 慍怒的，不高興的;（天氣）陰沉的;悲哀的;行動緩慢的;
"Bob looked pale and sullen."
鮑勃臉色蒼白，悶悶不樂。
近義：mirthless, morose, obscure, peeved, pettish, petulant
反義：hearty, heedful, humane, approachable, kindhearted, kindly