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VOA Time Attention !! VOA Time The Word of the Day for September 5th is futurity[fju:tju?riti] , spelled F-U-T-U-R-I-T-Y. “Futurity” is a noun that means time to come, future. It can also mean the quality or state of being future, or as a plural, it can mean future events or prospects. Heres the word used in a sentence:“The motivational speaker exhorted us to change the way we live today, rather than looking always towards some vague distant futurity.”“Futurity” is a forward-looking word with a literate past. Its first known use is in Shakespeares Othello. When the downtrodden Cassio mystified about why Othello has turned against him, asks Desdemona to tell him whether his “offense be of such mortal kind/ that nor my service past, nor present sorrows, /nor purposed merit in futurity /can ransom me into his love again.”The term is also used by Benjamin Franklin who wrote “I must one of these days go back to see him … but futurities are uncertain.” Sir Walter Scott used it. He wrote of events that were “still in the womb of futurity,” that is, events that hadnt happened as yet.Today, “futurity” often refers to a race, usually for two-year-old horses, in which the competitors are entered at birth or before, or to a race or competition for which entries are made well in advance of the event. Im Peter Sokolowski with your Word of the Day. Thanks for listening. VOA Time Exhort [igz?:t] verb?[T]: to strongly encourage or persuade (someone) to do something?规劝, 告诫, 勉[激]励, 敦促 forward-looking adjective : planning for and thinking about the future in a positive way, especially by being willing to use modern methods or ideas 有远见的 downtrodden[da?ntr?d(?)n] adjective：badly and unfairly treated:受压迫的 mystify：to confuse (someone) or make them uncertain by doing or involving them in something difficult to explain神秘化,使难解,迷惑 let’s translate If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moder