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Ambrose Bierce：经典英语语录与格言 - 芙联英语第2页

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“EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”

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“EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

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“EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.”

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“ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.”

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“ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.”

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“EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.”

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“ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.”

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“ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it. Enough is as good as a feast -- for that matter Enougher's as good as a feast for the platter. Arbely C. Strunk”

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“ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.”

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“ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.”

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“ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.”

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“EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.”

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“EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.”

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“ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.”

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“EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”

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“EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.”

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“EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.”

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“EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: 'O fudge!'”

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“EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.”

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“EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.”

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