The more perfect a thing is, the slower it is in arriving at maturity (成熟的). A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental (36) hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen. And then, too, in the case of woman, it is only reason of a sort-very niggard in its (37) . That is why women remain children their whole life long; never seeing anything but what is quite close to them, cleaving (忠于) to the present moment, taking appearance for reality, and preferring (38) to matters of the first importance. For it is by virtue of his reasoning faculty that man does not live in the present only, but looks about him and considers the past and the future; and this is the (39) of prudence (谨慎), as well as of that care and anxiety which so many people exhibit. Both the advantages and the disadvantages which this (40) are shared by the woman to a smaller extent because of her weaker power of reasoning. She may, in fact, be described as (41) short-sighted, because, while she has an (42) understanding of what lies quite close to her, her field of vision is narrow and does not reach to what is (43) ; so that things which are absent, or past, or to come, have much less effect upon woman than upon men. This is the reason why women are more inclined to be (44) , and sometimes carry their (45) to a length that borders upon madness. In their hearts, women think it is men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it-if possible during their husband’s life, but, at any rate, after his death. The very fact that their husband hands them over his earnings for purposes of housekeeping, strengthens them in this belief. A．extravagant I．trifles B．orientation J．involves C．intellectually K．origin D．inclination L．confidential E．advantages M．faculties F．remote N．absolutely G．intuitive O．dimensions H．excludes