2019-03-02-derision
The greatest Kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
Try and Try Hard
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. Go all the way.
It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision, mockery, isolation.
Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that.
Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind;
it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;
it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;
it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty.
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may winkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing child-like appetite of what is next, and the joy of game of living.
In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station;
so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope courage and power from man and the Infinite, so long as you are young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at twenty, but so long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Words
lament
- The old woman began to lament the death of her husband.
enclosure
- Animals can graze safely in the enclosure.
silt
- The harbor tends to become bolcked up by silt deposited by the river.
glide
- The birds glide over the open ocean.
solemn
- They gave a salute with a solemn expression.
vertebrate
- All fish are vertebrate because they all have backbones.
counsel
- If the police arrest you, you should find a legal counsel.
dissenting
- You all agree, so I guess I’m the only dissenting voice.
recital
- I went to watch a famous pianist’s recital last night.
syllable
- ‘Marketing’ has three syllables.
swampy
- The land is swampy, with many small pools of water.
poll
- Let’s go to the polls to vote for Obama.
morale
- Employee morale is high. Everybody enjoys working here.
palette
- I have all the major colors on my palette.
patron
- He is one of the restaurant’s oldest patrons; he has been eating there for years.
barter
- He bartered the fruits for the rabbit.
coax
- My big sister’s always trying to coax me into helping her.
moat
- In ancient times, people built moats to protect castles from attack.
renaissance
- Shakespeare was a representative writer of the Renaissance.
Treasure trove
- This sunken treasure trove belongs to us-it’s our treasure trove.
arid
- The lake turned to an arid place.
chronic
- I suffer from chronic pain.
oversight
- A defective teddy bear left the factory because of the worker’s oversight.
distinctly
- Of all the British dishes, fish and chips stand out distinctly.
prodigious
- The forest is full of prodigious trees.
unscrupulous
- The bussinessman uses unscrupulous methods in order to win the competition.
Consumer goods 日常生活用品
- The customers buy many consumer goods from the supermarket.
slander
- The actress was slandered by the people for her social media post.
unevenly
- I have to drive slowly because this road is very unevenly surfaced.
lease
- The agent leased this apartment to the young couple.
anarchist
- The anarchist is demanding the dissolution of the government.
atrophy
- Alzheimer can result in brain atrophy.
emancipation
- The emancipation of slaves ensured the civil rights of blacks.