Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
?? 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
n. 教育;教育學;培養;訓練;
?? e出+duc引導，帶來+ation行為 → 引出知識的行為 → 教育
"a special adviser to the President on education"
總統的教育特別顧問
近義：schooling, instruction, learning, background, schoolteaching, teaching
反義：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
n. 墻;屏障;隔閡;壁壘;
vt.& vi. 筑墻圍住，用墻隔開;圍以墻;
adj. 墻壁的;
?? vall- 墻,壁壘;樁線
"new offices with wall-to-wall carpeting"
房內鋪滿地毯的新辦公室
近義：hem, rail, rampart, surround, fence, parament
反義：level, overthrow, ravage, raze, shipwreck, strip
n. 人，人類;居民;人民;種族;
vt. 居住于，布滿;使住滿人，在…殖民;把動物放養在;
?? popul, publ 表”人民”
"I can't abide people with no sense of humour."
我討厭和沒有幽默感的人打交道。
近義：populate, settle, crowd, individuals, persons, folks
反義：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke
n. 折扣;回扣;
vt. 減少;打折;
?? re回，向后+bat打，走+e→打回去的東西→減少；回扣
"You can claim a rebate on your tax."
你可以要求退回部分稅款.
近義：sink, trim, cheapen, markdown, reduction, subtraction
反義：endear
num. 九十;
n. 九十;九十年代;九十歲;
adj. 九十的;九十歲的;
?? nine九+ty十 →九十
"He is ninety years old, but his mind is sharp."
他雖然90歲了, 但頭腦還很靈活.
n. 百分比，百分數;百分之一;
adj. 百分之…的，每一百中有…的;百分之…支付利息的;
adv. 以百分之…地，每一百中有…地;
?? per貫穿，自始自終+cent一百→百分比
"A conflagration in 1947 reduced 90 percent of the houses to ashes."
1947年的一場大火,使90%的房屋化為灰燼.
近義：percentage, part, portion, fragment, cud, quid