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英语名人名言: Revolution 革命
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  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

    Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989)

    Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

    Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

    Revolution is not a onetime event.

    Audre Lorde

    The most radical1 revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

    Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)

    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable2.

    John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962

    The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance3 from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos4.

    Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)

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    1 radical [ˈrædɪkl] hA8zu   第7级
    n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
    参考例句:
    • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital. 病人在医院得到了根治。
    • She is radical in her demands. 她的要求十分偏激。
    2 inevitable [ɪnˈevɪtəbl] 5xcyq   第7级
    adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
    参考例句:
    • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat. 玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
    • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy. 战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
    3 arrogance [ˈærəgəns] pNpyD   第8级
    n.傲慢,自大
    参考例句:
    • His arrogance comes out in every speech he makes. 他每次讲话都表现得骄傲自大。
    • Arrogance arrested his progress. 骄傲阻碍了他的进步。
    4 cosmos [ˈkɒzmɒs] pn2yT   第7级
    n.宇宙;秩序,和谐
    参考例句:
    • Our world is but a small part of the cosmos. 我们的世界仅仅是宇宙的一小部分而已。
    • Is there any other intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos? 在宇宙的其他星球上还存在别的有智慧的生物吗?

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