Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn  ·  Language

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properly ['prɑpɚli] 词频2 词根: 拥有
adv. 适当地;恰当地;正确地;完全，非常;
💡 proper 恰当的 + ly 表示如...的、有...特征的、属于...的 → adv. 适当地；正确地；恰当地
"How much money do we need to do the job properly?"
我们需要多少钱才能做好这件事？
近义：appositely, appropriately, aptly, aright, justly, particularly 反义：inadequately, inappropriately, naughtily, unsuitably
ostentation ['ɑstɛn'teʃən] 词根: os
n. 摆阔;讲排场;炫耀;卖弄;
💡 ostent=ostens出现+ation表名词 →表面，表层→ 虚饰；虚有其表
"I don't like the ostentation of their expensive life - style."
他们生活奢侈,爱摆阔,我不敢恭维.
近义：lavishness, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, pretence, pretentiousness 反义：humbleness, lowliness, meekness
speak [spik] 词频1 词根: sp-
vt.& vi. 讲，谈;演说;从某种观点来说;
💡 蛇（s）在山峰（peak）上 说
"You must be able to speak French for this job."
干这项工作你得会说法语。
近义：lecture, natter, talk, yack, chat, converse
plainly ['pleinli] 词频2
adv. 明显地，清楚地;简单地;朴素地;平坦地;
"If ever eyes could speak, hers did very plainly."
如果说眼睛能说话, 她的眼睛可说得清楚极了.
近义：openly, clearly, explicitly, frankly, just, simply 反义：backstage, privately, privily, reservedly, secretly, silently
speech [spitʃ] 词频1
n. 演说，演讲，发言;说话，谈话，说话能力或方式;（乐器的）音，音色;方言，民族语言;
"He finished his speech amid tremendous applause."
他在雷鸣般的掌声中结束了演讲。
近义：lecture, locution, monologue, peroration, phrase, prelection
understood [[ˌʌndə'stud]] 词频1
understand的过去式和过去分词
近义：implicit, implied, included, assumed, tacit, unexpressed 反义：apparent, irrefutable, manifest, obvious, ostensible, ostensive

📜 William Penn 的更多名言

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."
"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."
"Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely."
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🏷 更多「Language」名言

"Deeds, not words shall speak me."
— John Fletcher
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
— Abigail Adams
"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
— William Shakespeare
"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
— Lewis Thomas
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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