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Thoughts and Comments

Thoughts and Comments

Random bubbling thoughts.

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Avocado

🎴 原产于中美洲和墨西哥,几千年前就有文明驯化的遗迹。阿兹台克纳瓦人给这种表皮粗糙的椭圆果实起名āhuacatl,字面义“睾丸”。19世纪美国开始引进牛油果,一开始取名alligator pear鳄梨,后来销量不佳怒改名,根据西班牙语aguacate改为avocado…

Checkmate

🎴 mid-14c., in chess, said of a king when it is in check and cannot escape it, from Old French eschec mat (Modern French échec et mat…

Envy

🎴 古代西方人相信有一种邪恶的巫术叫做“邪恶之眼”( evil eye )。据说巫师施展这种巫术后,可以通过目光来使人无法动弹或受伤或遭受厄运。拉丁语 invidere 指的就是巫师施展“邪恶之眼”,由 in ( upon )+ videre ( to see…

Ordeal

🎴 Old English ordel , ordal , "trial by physical test," literally "judgment, verdict," from Proto-Germanic noun uz-dailjam "a…

Passion

🎴 Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passio(n-) (chiefly a term in Christian theology), from Latin pati 'suffer'. The word…

Philosophy

🎴 "Philosophy" 源于古希腊语。 “philosophy”来自于希腊词“φιλοσοφία” (philosophía)。这个词可以分解为两部分: “φίλος” (phílos) 意为“亲爱的”或“友爱的”,这里可以解释为“爱”或“热爱”的意思。 “σοφία…

The Rabbit Hole

🎴 📖 ❝ 🌊 ⚡️ 🧀 📝 🫧 🍀 🍞 🎮 🍄 🏅 📜

Trivial

🎴 源于拉丁语 trivium,由tri- 'three' 加 via 'way, road'构成,字面义为“三条路的会合点”。三条路引申为“三艺”。 古 罗马 大学有七门liberal arts…

Way of the Peaceful Warrior

永泽说的话

Alphabet

🎴 刚发现希腊语字母表起头俩分别是alpha和beta,拼一起就成了alphabet字母表! 🫧 “alphabet”这个词来源于古希腊词“alphabētos”,它是由希腊字母表的前两个字母——“alpha”(α)和“beta”(β)——组成的。这与我们说“AB…

Ephemera

🎴 生命短促的东西,昙花一现的事物 🫧 一日即愈的高烧

Intensify

🎴 1817 (transitive), from intense + -ify, first attested in Coleridge, in place of intend, which he said no longer was felt as connected…

the Primrose Path

🎴 with allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet Ⅰ. iii. 50 🫧 莎翁 真的是一己之力大型扩展英文词汇表 ❝ “She’ll only lead you down the primrose path,” (Location…

Smart

Old English smeortan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to German schmerzen ; the adjective is related to the verb, the original…

すごい

小面精神

原始文本: 🫧 油泼辣子和小面从技术水平上来对比可能是两个极端,前者把辣椒面用热油泼洒进面里加味精和盐,后者熬高汤煎葱油加肉臊子芝麻酱花生酱猪油姜蒜水。我觉得还是小面好吃。 🍖 Takeaway…