She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
— Henry James  ·  Mistakes

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gift [ɡɪft] 词频1
n. 赠品，礼物;天赋;赠送;天资; vt. 赋予;向…赠送;天赋权力（或才能等）;授予;
💡 give(给予)+t(表示抽象名词的后缀)→赠与；礼物
"The watch was a gift from my mother."
这块表是母亲给我的礼物。
近义：present, treat, bestowal, giveaway, offering, charity
small [smɔl] 词频1
adj. 小的;难为情的;低级的，卑劣的;细微的，微弱的; adv. 小小地;卑鄙地; n. 细小部分，腰部;琐碎东西;身份低的人;矮小的人;
"These small particles agglomerate together to form larger clusters."
这些颗粒聚结形成较大的团。
近义：little, meager, meagre, minute, reduced, scanty 反义：large, major, sizeable, sizable, some, capital
unequalled
a. 不等同的, 不能比拟的, 无敌的
近义：incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, peerless, surpassing, unapproachable 反义：identical, indistinct, interchangeable, like, parallel, similar
squeezing
[机] 推挤
近义：jam, pressing, squeeze, stricture, tightening, compression 反义：letup, readiness, releasing, slackening, distension, distention
mistakes
n. 错误( mistake的名词复数 ); 过失; 误解; （用词或数字上的）错误\\nv. 弄错, 误解( mistake的第三人称单数 ); 认不出; 误会; 看错
opportunities
n. 机会( opportunity的名词复数 ); 适当的时机; 条件; 就业（或晋升、进步等）的良机

📜 Henry James 的更多名言

"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
"His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman."
"There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort."
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
"People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour."
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🏷 更多「Mistakes」名言

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"
— Peter McWilliams
"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
— Peter McWilliams
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
— Henry C. Link
"It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile."
— Garry Marshall
"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."
— W. Somerset Maugham
"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
— Confucius
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