小词详解 | exorbitant
Remind yourself of the exorbitant price you can pay for worry in terms of your health.
常常提醒自己，忧虑会使你在身体健康方面付出高额代价。
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小词详解 | judicious
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
原创不过是明智审慎的模仿。
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 | 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 | culminate
我和老板的争吵日益恶化，直到最终我决定换工作。
My arguments with the boss got worse and worse, and finally culminated in my resignation.
小词详解 | encroach
encroach源自于诺曼时期古法语单词encrocher（抓住，紧固，用钩子钩住），由en-（“in”）和croche（钩子）构成。
小词详解 | feeble
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
世界的悲剧就在于有想象力的人缺乏经验，而有经验的人缺乏想象力。
小词详解 | constituent
在2016年开始的全国县乡两级人民代表大会换届选举中，登记选民10亿多人，直接选举产生近250万名县乡两级人民代表大会代表。
小词详解 | calibre
calibre一词原意是指鞋楦的尺寸，后来用来指各种铸造模具的尺寸。火炮问世后，这个单词用来表示火炮的炮管及炮弹的口径。
小词详解 | sprawl
他离开她后她就摊手摊脚地躺在床上，甚至都懒得往身上盖点儿东西。
She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up.
小词详解 | emulate
见贤思齐焉，见不贤而内自省也。
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
小词详解 | moribund
Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.
悲惨的最下层：老迈、无能、丧失了公民权、靠救济金维持生活、奄奄一息、精神错乱的贫民。