Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
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n. 宗教;支配自己生活的大事;教派;心愛的事物;
?? relig=rely依賴+ ion 名詞后綴 → 用來依賴的 → 宗教;宗教信仰
"Is there always a conflict between science and religion?"
科學和宗教信仰之間是否永遠存在著沖突?
近義:creed, faith
反義:godlessness
n. 神話;神怪故事;奇人,奇事;虛構的人,虛構的事;
v. 使神話化;
?? myst, myth 【希臘傳入拉丁】表”秘密”
"the murky borderland between history and myth"
歷史與神話之間的邊緣領域
近義:legend
反義:sooth, substantiality, truth, verity, actuality, fact
adv. 認真地;嚴肅地;嚴重地;
?? serious嚴肅的 + ly ...地→ adv. 認真地;嚴重地,嚴肅地
"Her father is seriously ill in St Luke's hospital."
她父親住在圣路加醫院,病情很重。
近義:owlishly, responsibly, unsmilingly, earnestly, gravely
反義:casually
n. 方法;條理;
?? meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;體系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
"a reliable method of birth control"
可靠的節育措施
近義:approach, logic, logicality, manner, means, mode
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. 命運;天命,天數;命運的三女神;主宰事物的力量;
?? des=god神 + tin =hold握,持,守 + y [名詞后綴],構成抽象名詞 →由神決定→ 命運;定數,天命
"The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny."
這個夜晚,這個世界,這風延續著我們的命運。
近義:karma, lot, doom, fate, foredoom