In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.
— Alan Moore  ·  No category

📚 名句词汇解析

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present ['prɛznt] 词频1 词根: pre
adj. 现在的;目前的;出席的;[语法学]现在时的; n. 现在;礼物;瞄准;
💡 pres前+ent名词后缀 → 礼物，赠送物
"a belated birthday present"
迟来的生日礼物
近义：offer, award, proffer, promise, accord, bestow 反义：implement, materialize, obtain, attain, perform, prosecute
moment ['momənt] 词频1 词根: 移动
n. 瞬间，片刻;时刻;重要，紧要;[物]力矩;
💡 mom(move)+ent(名词后缀)→瞬间；片刻；重要
"The moment the clown appeared on stage, the audience folded up."
小丑一出现在舞台上, 观众们个个笑得前俯后仰.
近义：instant, tick, time, while, bit, flash 反义：immortality, perdurability, perenniality, perpetuity, deathlessness, afterlife
once [wʌns] 词频1
adv. 一次，一趟;一倍;曾经;一旦; conj. 一旦…就…;一经; n. 一次，一回;
💡 on=one一+ce次 → 一次
"Once in the bloodstream, the bacteria adhere to the surface of the red cells."
细菌一进入血液里，就附着在红细胞表面上。
近义：heretofore, occasionally, onetime, previously, sometimes, thereinbefore
else [ɛls] 词频1
adv. 其他;否则;另外; adj. 别的;其他的;
"That proposal is nothing else other than a patchwork."
那个建议只是一个大杂烩而已.
近义：other, otherwise, unequal, unlike, different, dissimilar
smaller
a. 较小, 更小的
近义：lesser
knees
n. 膝( knee的复数形式 ); 膝盖; （裤子的）膝部; 坐下时)大腿朝上的面

📜 Alan Moore 的更多名言

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"Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore."
"There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses."
"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose."
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🏷 更多「No category」名言

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
— Will Durant
"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants."
— Horace
"It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing."
— Seneca
"The only thing good about it is you're not dead."
— Lillian Hellman
"If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes."
— William Shakespeare
"Without geography you're nowhere."
— Jimmy Buffett
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