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CHAPTER 22—Growing Old Ungracefully
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There comes, we are told, a crucial moment, “a tide” in all lives, that taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. An assertion, by the bye, which is open to doubt. What does come to every one is an hour fraught1 with warning, which, if unheeded, leads on to folly2. This fateful date coincides for most of us with the discovery that we are turning gray, or that the “crow’s feet” or our temples are becoming visible realities. The unpleasant question then presents itself: Are we to slip meekly3 into middle age, or are arms be taken up against our insidious4 enemy, and the rest of life become a losing battle, fought inch by inch?
In other days it was the men who struggled the hardest against their fate. Up to this century, the male had always been the ornamental5 member of a family. Cæsar, we read, coveted6 a laurel crown principally because it would help to conceal7 his baldness. The wigs8 of the Grand Monarque are historical. It is characteristic of the time that the latter’s attempts at rejuvenation9 should have been taken as a matter of course, while a few years later poor Madame de Pompadour’s artifices11 to retain her fleeting12 youth were laughed at and decried13
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conceal
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wigs
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rejuvenation
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n. 复原,再生, 更新, 嫩化, 恢复 | |
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dame
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artifices
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decried
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aged
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vigor
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mania
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peculiarity
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providence
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unreasonable
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fatality
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nemesis
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commendable
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deficient
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disillusion
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vengeance
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renaissance
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n.箍( hoop的名词复数 );(篮球)篮圈;(旧时儿童玩的)大环子;(两端埋在地里的)小铁弓 | |
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aberration
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discreet
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n.童帽( bonnet的名词复数 );(烟囱等的)覆盖物;(苏格兰男子的)无边呢帽;(女子戴的)任何一种帽子 | |
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n.美女( belle的名词复数 );最美的美女 | |
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