If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
📚 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.& vi. 用钱，花钱;
vt. 花费;消耗;花（时间）;度过;
n. （为某目的或某段时间内的）花销，花费，开销;
💡 s(dis-=apart)+pend(hang)→花费；耗用
"My kids spend hours chatting on the phone to their friends."
我的几个孩子在电话上和朋友聊天一聊就是几个小时。
近义：outlay, consume, deplete, disburse, dissipate, drain
反义：husband, keep, maintain, conserve
adv. 完美地;理想地;完全地;无瑕疵地;
💡 per全部+fect做+ ly ...地 → perfect全部做完=完美的+ly...地 → 完美地
"The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said."
证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定.
近义：ideally, optimally, pretty, quite, very, completely
反义：lamely, defectively, faultily
adj. 无用的，无效的;无价值的;差劲的;不怎么样的;
💡 use用+less无...的 →无用的
"The measures were decried as useless."
这些措施受到指责，说是不起作用。
近义：idle, inane, ineffective, insignificant, lousy, needless
反义：helpful, assistive, available, profitable, purposive, serviceable
n. 下午;后期，后部;
💡 after之后+noon中午 → 午后，下午
"in the late afternoon"
傍晚
近义：evening, p.m., postmeridian
反义：awakening, sunrise, dawn, daybreak, forenoon, matinal
adj. 有学问的;博学的;学术上的;精通某门学问的;
v. 学习(learn的过去式和过去分词);得知;
💡 learn学习+ed形容词后缀 → 有学问的；学术上的
"He has not yet learned how to be gracious in defeat."
他还没有学会怎样豁达大度地面对失败。
近义：highbrow, informed, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, literate
n. 方式，方法，做法;态度，样子，举止;礼貌，规矩;风俗，习惯，惯例，生活方式;
💡 人(man)进门(n) 举止温文尔(er)雅
"She answered in a businesslike manner ."
她回答时显出一副公事公办的样子。
近义：approach, means, method, mode, mood, nature