Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
— Cullen Hightower  ·  Mistakes

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lengthen ['lɛŋθən] 词频4 词根: leng
vt.& vi. 延长;伸长;
💡 length长度+en变成 →使延长，伸长
"She had to lengthen her stirrup leathers."
她得放长马镫皮带.
近义：prolong, protract, stretch, extend 反义：abridge, abstract, shorten, synthesise, synthesize, telescope
someone ['sʌmwʌn] 词频1
pron. 某人，有人; n. 某个人;
💡 some某些+one一个 → 某人
"Someone must have blabbed to the police."
一定有人向警方告密了。
近义：anybody, anyone, one, somebody
shorten ['ʃɔrtn] 词频4 词根: en
vt.& vi. 缩短，变短;
💡 short短+en变成 →缩短
"Injury problems could shorten his career."
受伤的问题有可能缩短他的职业生涯。
近义：narrow, reduce, retrench, shrink, compress, constrict 反义：increase, magnify, outstretch, project, stretch, unfold
laughing [['la:fiŋ]]
a. 一笑置之的, 高兴的\\nn. 笑
近义：heehaw, laugh, laughter, mirth, tehee, jolly 反义：mirthless, morose, pettish, petulant, shrewish, splenetic
life [laɪf] 词频1
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
else [ɛls] 词频1
adv. 其他;否则;另外; adj. 别的;其他的;
"That proposal is nothing else other than a patchwork."
那个建议只是一个大杂烩而已.
近义：other, otherwise, unequal, unlike, different, dissimilar

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"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."
"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can."
"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
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🏷 更多「Mistakes」名言

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"
— Peter McWilliams
"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
— Peter McWilliams
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
— Niels Bohr
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."
— Mary Pickford
"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
— Dan Quayle
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw
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