Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
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n. 文化;[生物學](微生物等的)培養;修養;養殖;
vt. 培植,培養;
?? cult耕種,培養+ure抽象名詞→[對心靈的]培養→人類文化
"the otherness of an alien culture"
異域文化的不同情調
近義:incubate, breed, cultivate, hatch, socialize, civilise
反義:philistinism, barbarism, roughness
n. 儀器;手段,工具;樂器;法律文件;
vt. 用儀器裝備;為演奏譜曲;向…提交文書;
?? in內+stru=struct建立+ment表名詞→內部結構→儀器;工具
"The despot claimed to be the chosen instrument of divine providence."
專制者聲稱自己是上天選定的統治工具.
近義:assemble, orchestrate, organise, organize, implement, tool
vt. 制造,生產;捏造,虛構;加工;從事制造;
n. 制造;制成品,產品;工業,工廠;(文學作品等的)粗制濫造;
?? manu手+fact做,制作+ure名詞后綴→手做→制造業(機器發明前用手做)
"The date of manufacture of the jewellery has not been authenticated."
這些珠寶的制造日期尚未經證實.
近義:make, produce, brew, craft, create, elaborate
反義:impair, kill, mar, obliterate, rack, ravage
vt.& vi. 使轉動;旋轉;使改變方向;使不適;
vt. 使變酸;使變換;使變為;
n. 翻轉;(路線或方向的)改變;機會;
"The government did an about-turn over nuclear energy."
政府對核能的態度來了個180度的大轉變。
近義:loop, slew, swerve, veer, wind, bend
反義:reerect, right, straighten, unfold, untwist