If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
📚 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. 人，人类;居民;人民;种族;
vt. 居住于，布满;使住满人，在…殖民;把动物放养在;
💡 popul, publ 表”人民”
"I can't abide people with no sense of humour."
我讨厌和没有幽默感的人打交道。
近义：populate, settle, crowd, individuals, persons, folks
反义：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke
adv. 真，真正;实在，果真;实际上;事实上;
💡 real真实的+ly表副词 →真正地
"Tom was really hungry and ate up everything served."
汤姆确实饿坏了,把端到桌上的东西吃得精光.
近义：honestly, indeed, just, authentically, particularly, properly
反义：hypocritically, insincerely, lyingly, meretriciously, misleadingly, untruthfully
adj. 重要的;权威的;有势力的;有地位的;
💡 import重要的 + ant 具有...性质的 → a.重要的；有势力的
"Earthworms do the important job of aerating the soil."
蚯蚓做了使土壤透气的重要工作。
近义：appreciable, indispensable, interesting, landmark, major, material
反义：idle, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insubstantial, meaningless
n. 不足，缺点;缺少;缺少量;不足额;
💡 short短+age名词形式 → 不足，缺少
"There is an acute shortage of water."
水严重短缺。
近义：inadequacy, insufficiency, absence, lack, meagerness, need
反义：plenty, profusion, providing, provision, purveyance, refilling
concentrated
[['kɔnsəntreitid]]
a. 集中的, 浓缩的\\n[建] 浓的
近义：intensive, strong, undiluted, intent, absorbed, rapt
反义：attenuate, attenuated, softened, thin, washy, watered
n. 生活，生计;生命，性命;一生，寿命;人生，尘世;
"My life seemed aimless."
我的生活似乎没有目标。
近义：being, existence, liveliness, spark, sprightliness, zest
反义：passing, quietus, decease, demise, disappearance, end