About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
— Gloria Pitzer  ·  Age

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effort ['ɛfɚt] 词频1 词根: fort
n. 努力，尝试;工作;成就;杰作;
💡 ef出+fort强大，力量→出力→努力
"She made a feeble effort to get to school on time."
她努力想按时赶到学校,但未成功.
近义：intent, pledge, pull, push, spirit, struggle 反义：heartsickness, hopelessness, intimidation, lassitude, tiredness, weariness
thing [θiŋ] 词频1
n. 事件，形势;东西，事物;家伙;事业;
"She was the only thing that made life bearable."
只因有了她生活才可以过得下去。
近义：item, knickknack, article, object, tchotchke, thingamabob
comes
v. 来自；从…来（come的三单形式）

🏷 更多「Age」名言

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
— Plato
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
— Alfred North Whitehead
"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."
— Homer
"No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to."
— Lynn Johnston
"I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect."
— George Burns
"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth."
— Robinson Jeffers
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
— Oscar Wilde
"There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you."
— Carol Matthau
"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you."
— Agatha Christie
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