So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
— Plutarch
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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
adj. 困難的;難做的;難解的;不易相處的;
?? dif不+fic做+ult表名詞→不好做→困難的
"The short story is a difficult art form to master."
短篇小說是一種很難掌握的藝術(shù)形式。
近義：rough, troublesome, complicated, arduous, intricate, labored
反義：uncomplicated, basic, cushy, doss, easy, facile
vt. 跟蹤，追蹤;追溯，探索;探索;查找;
vi. 沿著一小徑或道路前進;可以追溯的;
n. 痕跡，蹤跡;微量，極少量;[植]（脈）跡;痕跡;
?? trace(draw)→回溯
"Trace an analogy between pastoral poetry and landscape painting."
找出田園詩和風景畫之間的相似之處.
近義：hound, scribe, sketch, sleuth, spoor, track
n. 真理;真相，事實;忠實，忠誠;現(xiàn)實，現(xiàn)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
n. 歷史，歷史學;發(fā)展史;履歷，經(jīng)歷;（某地的）沿革;
?? histor過去發(fā)生的事 + y 表名詞→ 歷史；個人經(jīng)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(xiàn)實與民間故事、歷史與當代結(jié)合在一起”。
近義：archives, papers, past, background, record, records
n. 事件;（討論、考慮等的）問題;重要性;物質(zhì);
vi. 要緊，重要;化膿;有重大影響;有重要性;
"Now we come to the crux of the matter ."
現(xiàn)在我們來談問題的癥結(jié)。
近義：import, signify, weigh, count, amount, issue
v. 發(fā)現(xiàn);找到;查明;發(fā)覺;
n. 發(fā)現(xiàn)物;被發(fā)現(xiàn)的人;
?? 翻的(諧音): 找東西是要“翻的
"We searched in all quarters but still couldn't find it."
我們到處尋找,但仍沒能找到.
近義：learn, realize, locate, perceive, sense, spot
反義：ignore, neglect, overleap, overlook, overrule, pass