#GRE词汇##女佣#
0101，compost 堆肥
0102，amicable 心平气和的
petition上诉状
forgo放弃
reconvene 重新召开
adjourn 休庭
obtain 获得
cogent 令人信服的
0103，obelisk 方尖石塔
philistine 庸人
pizzazz 激情；活力
0104，credenza 餐具橱，书柜
covet觊觎
0106，pretentious 做作的
absolve 解除…的责任

#verb用时方恨少#
forgo [fɔːrˈɡoʊ] v. 放弃（想做的事或想得之物），对…断念，同forego
No one was prepared to forgo their lunch hour to attend the meeting. 谁都不愿意放弃午餐时间出席会议。
Many skiers are happy to forego a summer holiday to go skiing. 许多滑雪者乐于放弃暑假而选择去滑雪。
We certainly would not want to forgo the 4,340 pound chicken. 我们当然不愿意放弃（图上的）这只4340磅的鸡。（指用夸张的卡通表示数额）
—Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

朝闻道，夕死可矣。

I had a sense that a knowledge more than human possessed me, so that everything that had been confused was clear and everything that had perplexed me was explained. I was so happy that it was pain and I struggled to release myself from it, for I felt that if it lasted a moment longer I should die; and yet it was such rapture that I was ready to die rather than forgo it.

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