Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
?? 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. 人,人類;
adj. 人的;有人性的;顯示人類特有弱點的;人本性的;
?? hum土,地+an名詞后綴,屬于...的,傳說人是由土造出的 → 人類
"The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump."
老師打了個比喻,把人的心臟比作水泵。
近義:mortal
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
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. 大災難;慘敗;悲劇的結局;地表突然而猛烈的變動,災變;
?? cata向下+strophe轉→轉下去→災難臨頭→災難,大禍
"Early warnings of rising water levels prevented another major catastrophe."
提前發出的洪水水位上漲警報防止了又一次的重大災害。
近義:apocalypse, holocaust, tragedy, calamity, cataclysm, debacle
n. 賽跑;人種;競爭;民族;
v. 參加比賽;快速移動;空轉;
?? 比賽跑(r=run)第一(ace,撲克a)
"Much to his chagrin, he did not win the race."
使他大為懊惱的是他賽跑沒獲勝.
近義:hurry, nip, run, scurry, speed, sprint
反義:pace