Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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n. 名聲;名望;傳聞;傳說;
vt. 使聞名;使出名;使有名望;<古>盛傳;
?? fa, fabl, fam, fan =speak,表示”說”#詞根助記：名聲是靠口口相傳的
"the Country Music Hall of Fame"
鄉村音樂名人堂
近義：name, notoriety, popularity, prestige, remarkableness, renown
反義：belittling, discredit, disrepute
n. 普及;流行;名氣，名望，通俗性，大眾性;人望;
?? popul人民+ar...的+ity表名詞→popular流行的+ity表名詞 → 流行
"Agency France Presse enjoys great popularity both at home and abroad."
法新社在國內外都很有名氣.
近義：fame
反義：discredit
n. 意外事件;事故;機遇，偶然;附屬品;
?? ac一再+cid降下+ent...的→偶然降臨的事→偶然的事，意外
"The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident."
法院宣告他對該事故不負任何責任。
近義：hazard, luck, mischance, mishap, casualty, chance
反義：monotone, monotony, regularity, sameness, smoothness, standardization
n. 確定性，確實性;確定的事，必然的事;
?? certain確實的+ty表名詞 → 肯定
"Her return to the team now seems a certainty."
她的歸隊現在似乎已成定局。
近義：assurance, assuredness, obviousness, palpability, patency, positiveness
反義：hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indefinition, indetermination
n. 遺忘;淹沒;赦免;
?? oblivio-, oblivi- 表”忘記”
"He often drinks himself into oblivion."
他常常喝酒喝得不省人事。
近義：obscurity, obsolescence, obsoleteness, desuetude, disuse, lethargy
adj. 地球的，地上的;塵世的，世俗的;可能的;
"the sorrows of this earthly life"
塵世的悲哀
近義：mundane, subastral, subcelestial, sublunar, sublunary, terrene
反義：heavenly, paradisiacal, saintly, supernal