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discover [dɪ'skʌvɚ] 词频1 词根: dis
vt. 发现;碰见;撞见;获得知识;
💡 dis相反+cover盖→把盖揭开→发现
"We have to discover his plans and act accordingly."
我们得找出他的计划，照着办。
近义：locate, descry, detect, encounter, find, inquire
cruel ['kruəl] 词频2
adj. 残酷的，残忍的;使人痛苦的，让人受难的;无情的，严酷的;
💡 可辱尔（谐音）： 残酷到可以污辱你
"A mother who is cruel to her child is unnatural."
母亲对孩子残忍是不近人情的.
近义：heartless, inclement, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, inhumane 反义：merciful, pietistic, prayerful, religious, saintly, theological
mediocrity [[ˌmi:di'ɔkriti]]
n. 平常, 平庸之才
近义：trashiness, commonalty, commonness, commonplaceness 反义：predominance, primacy, remarkableness, supremacy, quality, distinction
late [let] 词频1
adj. 晚的，迟到的;时间不早的;已故的;原来的，之前的;临近终了的; adv. 晚，迟;后期地;最近地;
💡 因丢三落(la)四而特(te)爱 迟到
"His parents won't allow him to stay out late."
他的父母不会允许他在外待得很晚。
近义：lagging, lingering, overdue, straggling, straggly, tardy 反义：prompt, timely, exact, antiquated, archaic, naff

📜 W. Somerset Maugham 的更多名言

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
"The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain."
"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't."
"An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species."
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🏷 更多「No category」名言

"You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light."
— Vicomte de Chateaubriand
"Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly."
— William Shakespeare
"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions."
— Ann Radcliffe
"This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world."
— Swami Vivekananda
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
— Henry Kissinger
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level."
— Quentin Crisp
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