Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
📚 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
vt. （使）发生联系;（使）联合;结交;联想;
vi. 联盟;陪伴同事;
💡 as一再+soci社团+ate动词后缀→结成团队→联合；结合
"I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood."
一闻到烘烤食物的味道我就想起了童年。
近义：join, league, merge, partner, band, unite
反义：part, secede, split, abstract, unpeg, withdraw
vt. 提高（土地、地产）的价值;利用（机会）;改善，改良;
vi. 变得更好;改进，改善;
💡 im(in)+prov(test)+e(动词后缀)→改良；改善；进步
"We aim to improve opportunities for the less advantaged in society."
我们的宗旨是为社会地位比较低下的人增加机会。
近义：perfect, avail, profit, upgrade, benefit, better
反义：intensify, worsen, aggravate, deteriorate, exacerbate, increase
adj. 正派的;得体的;（服装等）相称的，合宜的;相当好的;
💡 de 强调+cent钱→ 钱多才体面
"And then he was awfully decent about giving me this job."
当时他特别宽厚,将这件工作交给了我.
近义：honest, honorable, honourable, just, kind, modest
反义：immodest, immoral, impudent, lewd, nasty, obscene
mannered
['mænəd]
adj. 矫揉造作的;守规矩的;
"He was a meek, mild-mannered fellow."
他是一个温顺随和的人。
近义：camp, affected, effeminate
反义：lionhearted, macho, male, manful, mannish, masculine
adv. 大约;旋转;到处，四处;在周围;
prep. 围绕;在附近;前后，左右;在…周围;
💡 前缀:a 表示加强意义
"He arrived around five o'clock."
他大约是五点钟到的。
近义：about, approximately, loosely, nearly, roughly, thereabout
n. 民族;人们;〈口〉家属，亲戚;民间音乐;
adj. 民间的;普通平民的;流传民间的;普通百姓的;
💡 折迭(fold)式机枪(k)是 民间的
"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"."
2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言，他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
近义：individual, people, person, chap, cookie, crowd