小词详解 | tether
Nae man can tether time or tide.
没有人能拴住时间或潮汐。
口语与词汇
小词详解 | collude
警方涉嫌与证人暗中串通。
It was suspected that the police had colluded with the witnesses.
小词详解 | precipitate
Their silverfoil of leaves precipitating, their skinny arms ageing and swaying.
银纸叶子坠落，骨瘦如柴的胳膊老迈而摇来摆去。
小词详解 | clout
Never cast a clout till May be out.
未过五月时，棉衣不可抛。
小词详解 | spawn
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
只有一代读者才能催生一代作家。
小词详解 | sporadic
Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.
始终如一坚持做的小事，即使平淡无奇，也会比零星做的大事收获更多。
小词详解 | tactic
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
好的战术甚至可以挽救最坏的战略。坏的战术甚至会毁掉最好的战略。
英语词源 | ordeal 考验，作为神灵审判手段的肉体考验
这种肉体考验在英语中就是 ordeal ，字面意思就是“ deal out by gods ”（由神灵来施加惩罚）。现在引申为“严峻的考验”。
小词详解 | swathe
You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.
人不可能在生命中的一大段时间里经历持续的残酷和恐怖之后，而不去谈论它，然后就没事了。
小词详解 | pervade
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
一旦将非暴力视为生命的法则，它必须遍及整个生命，而非应用于孤立的行为。
