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aliment

\AL-uh-muhnt\, noun:
1. Something that nourishes or feeds; nutriment.
2. Something that sustains a state of mind or body; sustenance.
transitive verb:
1. To give nourishment to; to nourish or sustain.
名词 n.
1.食物;养料
2.生活必需品;抚养费;生计
及物动词 vt.
1.向...提供营养物;抚养

Mental health depends upon gastric health. Every ailment stems from improper aliment.
~Frederick Kaufman, "Love Yourself Thin", Harper's Magazine, January 2000

Is not truth the natural aliment of the mind, as plainly as the wholesome grain is of the body?
~William Ellery Channing, "On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes: Lecture II"

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
~James Madison, "Federalist", Number 10

Aliment is derived from Latin alimentum, from alere, "to nourish." It is related to alimony.



A fox may grow gray, but never good.

江山易改，本性难移。



What part of a clock is always old?
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