Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
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axiom
['?ks??m]
n. 公理;自明之理;原理;格言;
?? axi有價值+om → 數學上很有價值的推論 → [數] 公理;格言;自明之理
"It is a widely held axiom that they should not negotiate with terrorists."
他們不應與恐怖分子談判是普遍接受的公理.
近義:law, principle, rule, tenet
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
intrigue
['?n'triɡ]
n. 密謀,陰謀;私通,奸情;
vi. 耍陰謀;
vt. 以謀略達成;激起…的好奇心;
?? in(in)+trigue(=tric,obstacle)→陰謀;策劃陰謀;引起…的興趣
"Qu Yuan suffered banishment as the victim of a court intrigue."
屈原成為朝廷中鉤心斗角的犧牲品,因而遭到放逐.
近義:mystify, nonplus, perplex, baffle, puzzle, discountenance
反義:illustrate, inspire, kindle, illuminate, edify, educate
n. 天才;天賦;天才人物;(特別的)才能;
?? geni出生,產生+us用→生出[就有]→天才
"the genius of Shakespeare"
莎士比亞的天才
近義:sage, savant, intellect, intelligence, invention, knack
反義:idiocy, imbecility, inanity, asininity, ludicrousness, nonsense
n. 革命;徹底改變;旋轉;運行,公轉;
?? re(反復)+volu(卷)+tion(名綴):反復卷來卷去的過程- 革命{分久必合,合久必分}
"The earth makes a yearly revolution around the sun."
地球每年繞太陽一周.
近義:rev, rotation, spin, turning, twirl, whirl
adj. …制的;(人工)做成的,拼成的;虛構的;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