The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
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holocaust
['hɑl?k?st]
n. 大屠殺;浩劫;毀滅;
?? holo全部+caust燒→全部燒光→大火災
"The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust."
奧辛威茨集中營總是讓世人想起大屠殺.
近義：apocalypse, tragedy, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, conflagration
adj. 淫穢的;下流的;猥褻的;可憎的;
?? obscen- 表”惡心的,令人憎惡的”
"The law is the final arbiter of what is considered obscene."
何謂猥褻最終由法律裁決。
近義：immodest, immoral, impudent, indecent, iniquitous, lascivious
反義：pure, vestal, chaste
n. 時期;（一段）時間;學時;句號;
adj. 具有某個時代特征的;（關于）過去某一特定歷史時期的;（家具、服飾、建筑等）某一時代的;
?? peri周圍，靠近+od道路→周期
"The overthrow of the military regime was followed by a period of anarchy."
軍事統治政權被推翻以后，接著是一段時期的無政府狀態。
近義：term, time, season, spell, bout, chapter
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. 百年，一世紀;百個;（板球）一百分;<美>百元鈔票;
?? cent 表”百”; 十進制中表小數點的前綴
"The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century."
通常認為，蒸餾法是阿拉伯人在11世紀發明的。
n. 國家;民族;國民;政府;
?? 那(na)梯(ti)上(on)有 國家
"The nation's coffers are empty."
國庫空虛。
近義：region, country, people, commonwealth