It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
📚 名句词汇解析
从本句名言中提取的重要词汇，帮助你深度理解这句话
n. 重要性;重要地位，显著;骄傲，自大;
💡 im进+port拿，运+ance名词后缀→带有意义的状态→重要性
"an awareness of the importance of eating a healthy diet"
认识到健康饮食的重要性
近义：influence, ascendancy, predominance, prevalence, prominence, pull
反义：nonissue, pinhead, smallness, trifle, insignificancy
adj. <口>渴望，切盼;垂死的，临终的;会死的;快熄灭的;
v. “die”的现在分词;
"He conjured them with his dying breath to look after his children."
他临终时恳求他们照顾他的孩子.
近义：agony, moribund, death, agonizing
adj. 短的，短暂的;矮的;短缺的;短期的;
adv. 突然;唐突地;简短地;横贯地;
n. 短裤;短路;缺乏;
vt. 故意少给…的零头，骗取;
vi. 短路;
💡 削头”（谐音）削了头人还能不 矮吗？ 网友：双木成林 补充：缩的（谐音），这样就成短的；矮的
"The short story is a difficult art form to master."
短篇小说是一种很难掌握的艺术形式。
近义：abridgment, abbreviation, little, minute, small, squat
反义：lengthened, lengthy, imprudent, intrepid, manful, mettlesome
n. 时间;时刻;时代;次;
vt. 为…安排时间;测定…的时间;调准（机械的）速度;拨准（钟、表）的快慢;
vi. 合拍;和谐;打拍子;
adj. 定时的;定期的;[美国英语]分期（付款）的;
int. [体育]时间到，（一场或一局等的）比赛时限，暂停;
"I can only carry two at a time."
我一次只能带两个。
近义：clock, lifetime, period, season, chapter, aeon
📜 Samuel Johnson 的更多名言
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."