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Chapter 16: Effort and resignation ↵ The golden
mean is an doctrine, and I can
remember when I was young rejecting it with
and , since in those days it was
heroic extremes that I admired. Truth, however,
is not always interesting, and many things are
believed because they are interesting; although,
in fact, there is little other evidence in their
favour. The golden mean is a case in point: it
may be an doctrine, but in a very
great many matters it is a true one. ↵ One
respect in which it is necessary to preserve the
golden mean is as regards the balance between
effort and resignation. Both doctrines have had
extreme advocates. The doctrine of resignation
has been preached by saints and ; the
doctrine of effort has been preached by
efficiency experts and . Each
of these opposing schools has had a part of the
truth, but not the whole. I want in this chapter
to try and strike the balance, and I shall begin
with the case in favour of effort. ↵ Happiness
is not, except in very rare cases, something that
drops into the mouth, like a , by the
mere operation of fortunate circumstances. That
is why I have called this book of
Happiness. For in a world so full of
and , of illness and
psychological , of struggle and poverty
and ill will, the man or woman who is to be happy
must find ways of coping with the
causes of by which each individual is
. In some rare cases no great effort may
be required. A man of easy good nature, who
inherits an ample fortune and enjoys good health
together with simple tastes, may slip through
life comfortably and wonder what all the fuss is
about; a good-looking woman of an
disposition, if she happens to marry a well-to-do
husband who demands no from her, and if
after marriage she does not mind growing fat, may
equally enjoy a certain lazy comfort, provided
she has good luck as regards her children. But
such cases are exceptional. Most people are not
rich; many people are not born good-natured; many
people have uneasy passions which make a quiet
and well-regulated life seem boring;
health is a blessing which no one can be sure of
preserving; marriage is not invariably a source
of . For all these reasons, happiness must
be, for most men and women, an achievement rather
than a gift of the gods, and in this achievement
effort, both , must play a
great part. The inward effort may include the
effort of necessary resignation; for the present,
therefore, let us consider only effort.
↵ In the case of any person, whether man or
woman, who has to work for a living, the need of
effort in this respect is too obvious to need
emphasising. The Indian , it is true, can
make a living without effort by merely offering a
bowl for the of , but in Western
countries the authorities do not view with a
favourable eye this method of obtaining an
income. Moreover, the climate makes it less
pleasant than in hotter and drier countries: in
the winter-time, at any rate, few people are so
lazy as to prefer out of doors to work
in heated rooms. Resignation alone, therefore, is
not in the West one of the roads to fortune. ↵
To a very large percentage of men in Western
countries, more than a bare living is necessary
to happiness, since they desire the feeling of
being successful. In some occupations, such, for
example as scientific research, this feeling can
be obtained by men who do not earn a large
income, but in the majority of occupations income
has become the measure of success. At this point
we touch upon a matter in regard to which an
element of resignation is desirable in most
cases, since in a competitive world conspicuous
success is possible only for a minority. ↵
Marriage is a matter in regard to which effort
may or may not be necessary, according to
circumstances. Where one sex is in the minority,
as men are in England and women are in Australia,
members of that sex require, as a rule, little
effort in order to marry if they wish. For
members of the sex which is in the majority,
however, the opposite is the case. The amount of
effort and thought this direction by
women where they are in the majority is obvious
to anyone who will study the advertisements in
women's magazines. Men, where they are in a
majority, frequently adopt more
methods, such as skill with the . This is
natural, since a majority of men occurs most
frequently on the border-line of civilisation. I
do not know what men would do if a discriminating
caused them to become a majority in
England; they might have to the manners
of in a . ↵ The amount of
effort involved in the successful rearing of
children is so evident that probably no one would
deny it. Countries which believe in resignation
and what is called a'spiritual' view
of life are countries with a high infant
mortality. Medicine, hygiene, , suitable
diet, are things not achieved without
preoccupations; they require energy and
intelligence directed to the material
environment. Those who think that matter is an
illusion are think the same of dirt, and
by so thinking to cause their children to die. ↵
Speaking more generally, one may say that some
kind of power forms the normal and
of every person whose natural desires are not
. The kind of power that a man desires
depends upon his passions; one man
desires power over the actions of men, another
desires power over their thoughts, a third power
over their emotions. One man desires to change
the material environment, another desires the
sense of power that comes from intellectual
mastery. Every kind of public work involves
desire for some kind of power, unless it is
undertaken solely with a view to the wealth
by corruption. The man who is
by purely suffering caused by the
spectacle of human misery will, if his suffering
is genuine, desire power misery. The
only man totally power is the man
totally his fellow-men. Some form
of desire for power is therefore to be accepted
as part of the equipment of the kind of men out
of whom a good community can be made. And every
form of desire for power involves, so long as it
is not , a form of effort. To
the mentality of the West this conclusion may
seem a , but there are not a few in
Western countries who with what is
called'the wisdom of the East' just at the
moment when the East is abandoning it. To them
perhaps what we have been saying may appear
questionable, and if so.'it has been worth
saying. ↵ Resignation, however, has also its
part to play in of happiness, and it
is a part no less essential than that played by
effort. The , though he will not sit down
under , will not waste
time and emotion upon such as are ,
and even such as are in themselves he
will submit to if the time and labour required to
avoid them would the pursuit of
some more important object. Many people get into
or a fury over every little thing that goes
wrong, and in this way waste a great deal of
energy that might be more employed. Even
really important objects it is
to become so deeply involved emotionally
that the thought of possible failure becomes a
constant peace of mind. Christianity
taught submission to the will of God, and even
for those who cannot accept this
there should be something of the same kind
all their activities. Efficiency in a
practical task is not the emotion
that we put into it; indeed, emotion is sometimes
efficiency. The attitude required
is that of doing one's best while leaving the
issue to fate. Resignation is of two sorts, one
rooted , the other in
hope. The first is bad; the second is good. The
man who has suffered such fundamental defeat that
he has given up hope of serious achievement may
learn the resignation of despair, and, if he
does, he will abandon all serious activity. He
may his despair by religious phrases,
or by the doctrine that is the true
end of man, but whatever disguise he may adopt to
conceal his inward defeat, he will remain
essentially useless and fundamentally unhappy.
The man whose resignation is based on
hope acts in quite a different way.
Hope which is to be must be large
and . Whatever my personal activities,
I may be defeated by death, or by certain kinds
of diseases; I may be overcome by my enemies; I
may find that I have an
course which cannot lead to success. In a
thousand ways the failure of purely personal
hopes may by , but if personal aims
have been part of larger hopes for humanity,
there is not the same utter defeat when failure
comes. The man of science who desires to make
great discoveries himself may fail to do so, or
may have to abandon his work owing to a blow on
the head, but if he desires profoundly the
progress of science and not merely his personal
contribution to this object, he will not feel the
same despair as would be felt by a man whose
research had purely motives. The man who
is working for some much-needed reform may find
all his efforts by a war, and may be
forced to realise that what he has worked for
will not come about in his lifetime. But he need
not on that account sink into complete despair,
provided that he is interested in the future of
mankind apart from his own participation in it.
↵ The cases we have been considering are those
in which resignation is most difficult; there are
a number of others in which it is much easier.
These are the cases in which only subsidiary
purposes suffer a check, while the major purposes
of life continue to offer a prospect of success.
A man, for example, who is engaged in important
work shows a failure in the desirable kind of
resignation if he is
; if his work is really absorbing, he
should regard such troubles in the way
in which one regards a wet day, that is to say,
as a nuisance about which it would be foolish to
. ↵ Some people are unable to bear
even those minor troubles which
make up, if we permit them to do so, a very large
part of life. They are furious when they miss a
train, transported with rage if their dinner is
badly cooked, sunk if the chimney
smokes, and vowing against the whole
industrial order when their clothes fail to
return from the steam laundry. The
energy that such people waste on trivial troubles
would be sufficient, if more directed, to
make and empires. The fails to
observe the dust that the has not
dusted, the potato that the cook has not cooked,
and the that the sweep has not swept. I do
not mean that he takes no steps to remedy these
matters, provided he has time to do so; I mean
only that he deals with them without emotion.
Worry and and irritation are emotions which
serve no purpose. Those who feel them strongly
may say that they are overcoming
them, and I am not sure that they can be overcome
by anything short of that fundamental resignation
of which we spoke earlier. The same kind of
concentration upon large hopes which
enables a man to bear personal failure in his
work, or the troubles of an unhappy marriage,
will also make it possible for him to be patient
when he misses a train or drops his umbrella, in
the mud. If he is of a disposition, I am
not sure that anything less than this will cure
him. ↵ The man who has become
the empire of worry will find life a much more
cheerful affair than it used to be while he was
being irritated. Personal
of acquaintances, which formerly
made him wish to scream, will now seem merely
amusing. When Mr. A. for the three hundred and
forty-seventh time relates the of the
Bishop of , he himself by
noting the score, and feels no
attempt a diversion by an of his
own. When his breaks just as he is in a
catch an early morning train, he
reflects after the appropriate , that
in the history of the event in
question has no very great importance. When he is
a proposal of marriage by a visit
of a neighbour, he considers that all
mankind have been disaster, with the
exception of Adams, and that even he had his
troubles. There is no limit to what can be done
in the way of finding consolation from minor
by means of bizarre analogies and
parallels. Every man or woman
has, I suppose, some picture of himself or
herself and is annoyed when anything happens that
seems to spoil this picture. The is to
have not only one picture, but a whole gallery,
and to select the one appropriate to the incident
in question. If some of the portraits are a
, so much the better; it is not
see oneself all day long as a hero of
high tragedy. I do not suggest that one should
see oneself always as in comedy, for
those who do this are even more irritating; a
little is required in choosing a role
appropriate to the situation. Of course, if you
can forget yourself and not play a part at all
that is . But if playing a part has
become second nature, consider that you act in
, and so avoid . ↵ Many active
people are of opinion that the slightest grain of
resignation, the faintest of humour, would
destroy the energy with which they do their work
and the determination by which, as they believe,
they achieve success. These people, in my
opinion, are mistaken. Work that is worth doing
can be done even by those who do not deceive
themselves either as to its importance or as to
the ease with which it can be done. Those who can
only do their work when upheld by self-deception
had better first take a course in learning to
endure the truth before continuing their career,
since sooner or later the need of being sustained
by myths will cause their work to become harmful
instead of beneficial. It is better to do nothing
than to . Half the useful work in the
world consists of combating the harmful work. A
little time spent in learning to appreciate facts
is not time wasted, and the work that will be
done afterwards is far less likely to be harmful
than the work done by those who need a continual
infiation of their ego as a to their
energy. A certain kind of resignation is involved
in willingness to face the truth about ourselves;
this kind, though it may involve pain in the
first moments, affords ultimately a protection -
indeed the only possible protection - against the
disappointments and to which the
self-deceiver is liable. Nothing is more
fatiguing nor, in the long run, more
than the daily effort to believe things which
daily become more incredible. To be done with
this effort is an of
secure and lasting happiness. ↵
知识点
重点词汇
cosmos [ˈkɒzmɒs] n. 宇宙；和谐；秩序；大波斯菊 n. (Cosmos)人名；(法)科斯莫斯 {cet6 gre :8156}
thwarted [θwɔ:tid] v. 挫败（thwart的过去分词）；反对 adj. 挫败的 { :8327}
tedious [ˈti:diəs] adj. 沉闷的；冗长乏味的 {cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :8426}
commonplace [ˈkɒmənpleɪs] n. 老生常谈；司空见惯的事；普通的东西 adj. 平凡的；陈腐的 {cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :8456}
misfortunes [misˈfɔ:tʃənz] n. 不幸( misfortune的名词复数 ); 厄运; 不幸的事; 灾难 { :8481}
indispensable [ˌɪndɪˈspensəbl] n. 不可缺少之物；必不可少的人 adj. 不可缺少的；绝对必要的；责无旁贷的 {cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts :8544}
admirable [ˈædmərəbl] adj. 令人钦佩的；极好的；值得赞扬的 {gk toefl :8547}
vengeance [ˈvendʒəns] n. 复仇；报复；报仇 {cet6 ielts gre :8569}
outward [ˈaʊtwəd] adj. 向外的；外面的；公开的；外服的；肉体的 adv. 向外（等于outwards）；在外；显而易见地 n. 外表；外面；物质世界 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl :8599}
amuses [əˈmju:ziz] v. 使人发笑( amuse的第三人称单数 ); 逗乐; 使消遣; 娱乐 { :8734}
impersonal [ɪmˈpɜ:sənl] n. 非人称动词；不具人格的事物 adj. 客观的；非个人的；没有人情味的；非人称的 {toefl :8797}
mundane [mʌnˈdeɪn] adj. 世俗的，平凡的；世界的，宇宙的 {toefl ielts gre :8820}
civilised ['sɪvəlaɪzd] adj. 文明的 { :8881}
anecdote [ˈænɪkdəʊt] n. 轶事；奇闻；秘史 {gk ky toefl ielts gre :8925}
wisely [waɪzlɪ] adv. 明智地；聪明地；精明地 n. (Wisely)人名；(英)怀斯利 { :9108}
gleam [gli:m] n. 微光；闪光；瞬息的一现 vt. 使闪烁；使发微光 vi. 闪烁；隐约地闪现 {cet6 toefl ielts gre :9332}
tangles ['tæŋɡlz] v. （使）缠结， （使）乱作一团( tangle的第三人称单数 ) { :9440}
unwise [ˌʌnˈwaɪz] adj. 不明智的；愚蠢的；轻率的 { :9528}
usefully ['ju:sfəlɪ] adv. 有效地，有用地 { :9532}
unavoidable [ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbl] adj. 不可避免的；不能废除的 {cet6 :9575}
vain [veɪn] adj. 徒劳的；自负的；无结果的；无用的 {gk cet4 cet6 ky ielts gre :9731}
indignation [ˌɪndɪgˈneɪʃn] n. 愤慨；愤怒；义愤 {cet6 ky gre :9794}
fret [fret] n. 烦躁；焦急；磨损 vi. 烦恼；焦急；磨损 vt. 使烦恼；焦急；使磨损 n. (Fret)人名；(法)弗雷；(西)弗雷特 {cet6 toefl ielts gre :9929}
incidental [ˌɪnsɪˈdentl] n. 附带事件；偶然事件；杂项 adj. 附带的；偶然的；容易发生的 { :9982}
predominant [prɪˈdɒmɪnənt] adj. 主要的；卓越的；支配的；有力的；有影响的 {cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :10173}
quaint [kweɪnt] adj. 古雅的；奇怪的；离奇有趣的；做得很精巧的 {toefl gre :10301}
DEL [del] n. 删除文件；[数] 倒三角形 n. (Del)人名；(匈)戴尔；(柬)德 { :10316}
expended [iksˈpendid] v. 花费；耗尽（expend的过去分词） adj. 花费的；支出的；开支的 { :10629}
revolver [rɪˈvɒlvə(r)] n. 左轮手枪；旋转器 { :11031}
mistakenly [mɪ'steɪkənlɪ] adv. 错误地；曲解地，被误解地 { :11081}
contemplation [ˌkɒntəmˈpleɪʃn] n. 沉思；注视；意图 { :11236}
bliss [blɪs] n. 极乐；天赐的福 vt. 使欣喜若狂 vi. 狂喜 n. (Bliss)人名；(英、法、德、西)布利斯 n. 必列斯（化妆品品牌） {toefl gre :11334}
pervading [pə'veɪdɪŋ] adj. 普遍的；无所不在的 { :11414}
unhappiness [ʌn'hæpɪnəs] n. 苦恼；忧愁 { :11535}
obtainable [əbˈteɪnəbl] adj. 能得到的 {toefl gre :11641}
scorn [skɔ:n] n. 轻蔑；嘲笑；藐视的对象 vt. 轻蔑；藐视；不屑做 vi. 表示轻蔑；表示鄙视 {cet4 cet6 ky ielts gre :11677}
sanitary [ˈsænətri] n. 公共厕所 adj. 卫生的，清洁的 {toefl ielts gre :11726}
trifle [ˈtraɪfl] n. 琐事；蛋糕；少量 vt. 浪费；虚度 vi. 开玩笑；闲混；嘲弄 {cet4 cet6 ky ielts gre :11802}
gallants [ ] [电影]打擂台 { :11906}
camouflage [ˈkæməflɑ:ʒ] n. 伪装，掩饰 vt. 伪装，掩饰 vi. 伪装起来 {toefl gre :12127}
exertion [ɪgˈzɜ:ʃn] n. 发挥；运用；努力 {toefl :12337}
matrimonial [ˌmætrɪˈməʊniəl] adj. 婚姻的；与婚姻有关的；根据结婚的惯例的 { :12929}
perpetually [pə'petʃʊəlɪ] adv. 永恒地，持久地 { :13089}
mystics ['mɪstɪks] n. 神秘主义者( mystic的名词复数 ) { :13113}
repertory [ˈrepətri] n. 储备；仓库；全部剧目 {toefl :13284}
tact [tækt] n. 机智；老练；圆滑；鉴赏力 {cet6 toefl gre :13954}
disillusionments [ ] (disillusionment 的复数) n.幻灭,觉醒 { :14166}
soot [sʊt] n. 煤烟，烟灰 vt. 用煤烟熏黑；以煤烟弄脏 {gre :14589}
stimulant [ˈstɪmjələnt] n. [药] 兴奋剂；刺激物；酒精饮料 adj. 激励的；使人兴奋的 {toefl gre :14629}
exasperating [ɪgˈzæspəreɪtɪŋ] adj. 激怒人的；气死人的 { :14769}
assailed [əˈseɪld] v. 攻击( assail的过去式和过去分词 ); 困扰; 质问; 毅然应对 { :15181}
idleness ['aɪdlnəs] n. 懒惰；闲散；失业 {cet6 :15250}
monotony [məˈnɒtəni] n. 单调；千篇一律 {gre :15284}
altruistic [ˌæltrʊ'ɪstɪk] adj. 利他的；无私心的 {gre :15735}
expletives [ɪksp'li:tɪvz] n. 感叹词，咒骂语( expletive的名词复数 ) { :16119}
preventable [prɪ'ventəbl] adj. 可预防的；可阻止的；可防止的 { :16351}
laughable [ˈlɑ:fəbl] adj. 有趣的，可笑的 { :16571}
bygone [ˈbaɪgɒn] n. 过去的事 adj. 过去的 { :17359}
uninteresting [ʌnˈɪntrəstɪŋ] adj. 无趣味的，乏味的；令人厌倦的 { :18414}
idiosyncrasies [ˌɪdi:əʊˈsɪŋkrəsi:z] 个性,[心理] 特异品质 个人喜好 特有的风格（ idiosyncrasy的名词复数 ） (对药物、食物等的)[医] 特异反应，过敏 特异体质 气质，习性，癖好（ idiosyncrasy的名词复数 ） { :18599}
avoidable [əˈvɔɪdəbl] adj. 可避免的；可作为无效的；可回避的 {toefl :19290}
atrophied ['ætrəfɪd] adj. 萎缩的；衰退的 v. 萎缩（atrophy的过去分词）；使衰退 { :19731}
alms [ɑ:mz] n. 捐献；救济物，施舍金 {gre :20361}
难点词汇
phraseology [ˌfreɪziˈɒlədʒi] n. 措辞；语法；词组 { :22481}
housemaid [ˈhaʊsmeɪd] n. 女佣，女仆 { :22861}
emancipated [iˈmænsipeitid] adj. 被解放的 v. 解放；使…获得自由（emancipate的过去分词） { :23235}
sidetracked [ˈsaidtrækt] vt. 将（火车）[建] 转到侧线；转变（话题） n. （铁路）侧线；次要地位 vi. [建] 转到侧线；转变话题 { :23590}
pestilence [ˈpestɪləns] n. 瘟疫（尤指鼠疫）；有害的事物 {toefl :23924}
fretful [ˈfretfl] adj. 焦躁的；烦燥的；起波纹的 { :24953}
indolent [ˈɪndələnt] adj. 懒惰的；无痛的 {toefl gre :26808}
expeditious [ˌekspəˈdɪʃəs] adj. 迅速的；敏捷的 {toefl gre :26976}
actuated [ˈæktʃu:ˌeɪtid] adj. 开动的；动作的 v. 驱动；激励（actuate的过去分词形式）；使运转 { :29241}
correlative [kəˈrelətɪv] adj. 相关的；有相互关系的 n. 关联词；相关物 { :29900}
multitudinous [ˌmʌltɪˈtju:dɪnəs] adj. 大量的，群集的；多种多样的 { :32605}
intolerably [ɪn'tɒləblɪ] adv. 到难耐的程度；无法忍受地 { :32991}
unmake [ˌʌn'meɪk] vt. 使恢复原状；使消失；撤回；毁灭；改变 { :33105}
unconquerable [ʌnˈkɒŋkərəbl] adj. 克服不了的；不可征服的；压制不了的 { :35766}
egoistic [ˌeɡəʊ'ɪstɪk] adj. 自私自利的，自我中心的 { :36195}
Tierra [tɪ'erə] n. 高山气候带 { :37346}
Fuego [ ] [电影]火焰 { :37357}
bootlace [ˈbu:tleɪs] n. 鞋带 { :37861}
coquette [kɒˈket] n. 卖弄风情的女人 n. (Coquette)人名；(法)科凯特 vi. 卖弄风情；调情 { :39850}
fakir [ˈfeikə] n. （伊斯兰教或印度教的）托钵僧，苦行者（伊斯兰教或印度教的）托钵僧，苦行者；骗子 n. (Fakir)人名；(阿拉伯、土)法基尔 { :45238}
生僻词
asepsis [æ'sepsɪs] n. 无菌；无菌操作
border-line [ ] 边界线；图廓线
fellow-men [ ] (fellow-man 的复数) n. 人；同胞
forty-seventh [ ] [网络] 第四十七
good-looking [ɡʊd 'lʊkɪŋ] adj. 好看的；美貌的
good-natured [ɡʊd neɪˌtʃəd] adj. 和蔼的；温厚的；脾气好的
much-needed [ ] [网络] 急需的；特别需要的；大量需要
self-deceiver [,selfdi'si:və] n. 自欺(欺人)者
self-deception [ˈselfdiˈsepʃən] n. 自欺；自欺欺人的行为
well-regulated ['wel'regjʊleɪtɪd] adj. 有规则的；井然有序的；理应如此的
well-to-do [wel tə dʊ] adj. 小康的；富裕的
winter-time [ ] un. 冬季时间 [网络] 冬天；满州
词组
a clown [ ] [网络] 小丑；十三点
an obstacle to [ ] na. (进步)的障碍 [网络] 是…的障碍
apt to [æpt tu:] adj. 易于；善于 [网络] 有……的倾向；常会；容易
best cure [ ] n.最适硫化,正硫化
bygone age [ ] 过去的年代
distract by [ ] vt.为...而忧虑,因...而发狂
do harm [ ] un. 闯荡；受伤；加害；不利 [网络] 有害处；伤害；为害
done harm [ ] vbl.有害
emancipate from [ ] 解放，解除(束缚)，使不受…束缚，摆脱
embark upon [ ] un. 登 [网络] 开始；开始，从事，着手；开始工作
expend in [ ] 在…上花费(时间、精力、劳力等)
good cure [ ] un. 适度硫化 [网络] 适中硫化
hurry to [ ] [网络] 匆匆忙忙地去；赶往；匆忙赶到
in despair [ ] na. 绝望地 [网络] 绝望的；失望；在绝望中
in the pursuit of [ ] [网络] 追求；奉行
incapable of [ ] adj. 不会 [网络] 无能力；没有能力；没有……的能力
inclination to [ ] 乐于…… 倾向……
indifferent to [ ] prep. 不关心 [网络] 不在乎；无兴趣；对…漠不关心
indispensable condition [ ] [网络] 必要条件；绝对必要条件
interfere with [ˌɪntəˈfiə wið] 干扰，干涉；妨碍；触动或弄坏；乱动；与……抵触
interrupt in [ ] 打断; 打扰; 中断
inward and outward [ ] [网络] 进出境；资本的双向流动；内在和外在
legitimate aim [ ] [网络] 正当目的；合法目的；正当的目的
liable to [ ] [网络] 易于；易受；应受法律制裁的
made a fuss [ ] 大惊小怪，小题大做；吵吵闹闹
make a fuss [meik ə fʌs] na. 小题大做 [网络] 大惊小怪；大声吵闹；无事自扰
menace to [ ] vt.对...的威胁
muscular Christian [ ] [网络] 强人基督徒
obstacle to [ ] [网络] 纪念碑；障碍；的障碍
proportional to [ ] adj. 和…成比例 [网络] 成正比；与…成比例；成比例的
revert to [ ] v. 恢复 [网络] 回复；恢复为；归还
ripe fruit [ ] un. 成熟水果 [网络] 成熟果；成熟的水果；熟了的水果
the conquest [ ] na. 1066年威廉的征服英国 [网络] 争霸；争霸传奇；一次爱的征服
the cosmos [ ] [网络] 宇宙；从那和谐宇宙；誉峰
the faithful [ ] [网络] 忠实者；忠诚信徒；忠贞不渝
the wise [ ] [网络] 智者；聪明人；睿智的
Tierra del Fuego [ti'erә,delfu:'ei^әu] n. (南美南端的)火地岛 [网络] 火地岛省；火地群岛；阿根廷火地岛国家公园
to alleviate [ ] [网络] 纾解；使缓和；使易于忍受
to revert [ ] [网络] 使颠倒；重新考虑
wise man [ ] 哲人, 贤人 [法] 明智之士, 智囊
Wise Men [ ] [网络] 智者；智慧人；人有些智者
wise to [ ] 明智的
with patience [ ] na. 耐心地 [网络] 有耐心；很有耐心；有耐心地
单词释义末尾数字为词频顺序
zk/中考 gk/中考 ky/考研 cet4/四级 cet6/六级 ielts/雅思 toefl/托福 gre/GRE
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