小词详解 | stymie
Lame execution will stymie a good strategy.
执行不力会阻碍一个好策略。
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小词详解 | halcyon
Far from paving the way for a halcyon future of prosperity and stability, the digital era promises to usher in as profound a political and social transformation as that wrought by the arrival of the industrial age.
数字时代远没有为繁荣与稳定的美好未来铺平道路，而是有望开创如同工业时代到来所带来的那般深刻的政治和社会变革。
小词详解 | mundane
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
人生往往由许多平凡决定累积而成，而这常常为人忽视。
小词详解 | facile
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
有时，与沉默相比，信口开河的谈话更缺乏沟通性。
小词详解 | precarious
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
充满行动和危险的生活将减缓对死亡的恐惧。它不仅赋予我们承受痛苦的刚毅，而且时刻引导我们把握飘忽不定的现在。
小词详解 | lurk
Lurk 一词可能最终源自中古英语 luren （皱眉、潜伏），现在主要表示意图不轨地“埋伏、潜伏”，多是为了攻击某人或做不正当的事，比如：
小词详解 | imminent
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
大声宣传和平使战争显得迫在眉睫。
小词详解 | glut
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
个性化是供应过剩的产物。
小词详解 | tepid
How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.
现在整个英国的政治局势是多么的停滞不前和不温不火，简直是难以置信。
小词详解 | uncanny
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
要想有影响力，你真的不需要权力。而你最需要的是对人们最在乎的东西有着近乎不可思议的理解。
小词详解 | subpoena
It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.
在没有传唤权的情况下压制美国总统是很困难的。
小词详解 | engender
Gender → Engender