Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
— Russell Baker  ·  Progress

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usually ['juʒuəli] 词频1 词根: 使用
adv. 通常，经常，平常，惯常地;一直，向来;动不动，一般;素;
💡 usual通常的+ly副词后缀→通常地，惯常地
"The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century."
通常认为，蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。
近义：invariably, mostly, normally, oft, often, oftentimes 反义：infrequently, occasionally, seldom, sometimes
terrible ['tɛrəbl] 词频1 词根: terr
adj. 可怕的;危害极大的;<非正>很糟的;劣质的; adv. 口〉非常，很，极; n. 可怕的人;
💡 terr怕+ible...的 → 可怕的
"to make a terrible blunder"
犯大错
近义：heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific 反义：innocuous, offenceless, safe, unoffending, benign, harmless
excuse [ɪk'skjʊs] 词频1
vt. 原谅;为…申辩;免除，宽免;给…免去; n. 借口，托辞;道歉，歉意;辩解;请假条; vi. 作为借口;请示宽恕;表示宽恕;
💡 cause, cuse 表原因,目的;司法程序,诉讼
"Late again! What's your excuse this time?"
又迟到了！你这次有什么借口？
近义：indulgence, absolve, pardon, redress, release, remit 反义：impeach, implicate, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict
progress ['prɑɡrɛs] 词频1 词根: grad
n. 进步;前进;[生物学]进化;（向更高方向）增长; v. （使）进步，（使）进行;发展;促进; vi. 发展;（向更高方向）增进;
💡 pro向前，在前+gress走→向前走
"She watched the cow's ponderous progress."
她看着牛迟缓地向前走着。
近义：improve, unfold, advance, develop, evolve, gestate 反义：pullback, pullout, recoil, retirement, walkout, withdrawal
really ['riəlɪ] 词频1
adv. 真，真正;实在，果真;实际上;事实上;
💡 real真实的+ly表副词 →真正地
"Tom was really hungry and ate up everything served."
汤姆确实饿坏了,把端到桌上的东西吃得精光.
近义：honestly, indeed, just, authentically, particularly, properly 反义：hypocritically, insincerely, lyingly, meretriciously, misleadingly, untruthfully
done [dʌn] 词频1
adj. 已完成的;煮熟的;合乎礼仪的;合乎规矩的; int. （表示接受建议）; v. 做( do的过去分词);干;
"When you're done, perhaps I can say something."
等你说完，也许我可以说点什么。
近义：made, terminated, accomplished, complete, completed, concluded

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"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian."
"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
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🏷 更多「Progress」名言

"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."
— Ogden Nash
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
— George Bernard Shaw
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
— Samuel Butler
"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
— Havelock Ellis
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
— Plato
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