This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.
📚 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. 本质，实质;精华，精髓;香精;
💡 ess, est, sen 表示”存在”
"We must try to get to the essence of things."
我们必须想法抓住事物的本质.
近义：inwardness, quiddity, substance, gist, extract
n. 人;（语法）人称;身体;容貌;
💡 person-, parson- 表”人类”
"The aforementioned person was seen acting suspiciously."
有人看见前面提到的那个人行动可疑。
近义：individual, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke, blighter
反义：assemblage, assembly, mass, mob, multitude, party
adv. 否则;另外;别的方式;
adj. 别的，另外的;不同的;
conj. 否则，不然;
💡 other另外的+wise方向，状态 →要不然
"If he had done otherwise, I should have thought him a rascal."
如果他不这样做, 我就认为他是个恶棍.
近义：other, unequal, unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse
反义：indeed, really, strictly, truly, actually
n. 部分;零件;参加;地区;
vt. 使分裂;拆移;使分开;
vi. 分开;分离;分岔;
adv. 不完全地，部分地;
adj. 不完全的，部分的;
"The first part of the plan has been safely accomplished."
计划的第一部分已顺利完成。
近义：section, segment, split, divide, fragment, secede
反义：whole, entirety, off, outright, plumb, quite
vt. 种植;扩大;扩展;增加;
vi. 生长;渐渐变得;逐渐开始;
vt.& vi. （使）留长，蓄长;
"He has decided to grow a beard and a moustache."
他已经决定留起络腮胡子和髭。
近义：proliferate, propagate, breed, upsize, expand, increase
反义：shrink, lessen, attenuate, reduce, remit, slacken