An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
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n. 教育;教育學(xué);培養(yǎng);訓(xùn)練;
?? e出+duc引導(dǎo)，帶來+ation行為 → 引出知識的行為 → 教育
"a special adviser to the President on education"
總統(tǒng)的教育特別顧問
近義：schooling, instruction, learning, background, schoolteaching, teaching
反義：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
n. 疾病;弊端;不安;
vt. 傳染;使…有病;
?? dis(apart)+ease→疾病
"About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease."
全國40%左右的人口患有這種疾病。
近義：ill, malady, illness, complaint, condition, affliction
反義：healthiness, liveness, salubrity, salutariness, sanitation, sparkle
vt.& vi. 走過;通過;批準(zhǔn);度過;
vt. 傳球;及格;發(fā)生;不要;
n. 通道;通行證;關(guān)口;越過;
?? pass(pass)→通過；經(jīng)過；傳遞；使及格；度過
"I'm not old enough for my bus pass yet!"
我還不到領(lǐng)取免費乘車票的年齡。
近義：outpace, overtake, lapse, occur, elapse, happen
反義：flop, flunk, founder
unsuitable
[?n'sut?bl]
adj. 不合適的，不適宜的，不相稱的;鋤悟難入;不當(dāng);
?? un 不+suit 適合+able 能...的 → 不適合的；不相稱的
"He was wearing shoes that were totally unsuitable for climbing."
他穿了一雙完全不適合登山的鞋子。
近義：improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incompatible, irrelevant
反義：appropriate, apt, passable, pat, average, proper
adj. 性的，有性別的;性欲的;生殖的;[生]有性的;
"Dr Puts is looking at how sexual selection gave rise to certain human traits."
普茨博士一直在探討性選擇如何提升人類的某些特質(zhì)。
近義：sex
反義：sexless, agamic
adj. …制的;（人工）做成的，拼成的;虛構(gòu)的;保證成功的;
v. 使(make的過去式和過去分詞);
"He made it absolutely clear."
他把此事講得一清二楚。
近義：manufactured, produced, done, fabricated, artificial, manmade