小词详解 | banal
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
平庸的想法不能被出色的执行拯救。
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小词详解 | succinct
His response was notably succinct, but not unique.
他的回答极其简洁，但这样回答的并非只他一人。
小词详解 | atone
It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
它现在必须用血来弥补它与邪恶的共谋。
小词详解 | inept
Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept.
饭店是不善社交者的雷区。
小词详解 | browbeat
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
美国喜剧尤其尽是些男人被妻子威逼恫吓的，这让我没法看。
小词详解 | fortitude
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
耐心与坚毅征服一切。
小词详解 | obdurate
The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.
历史非常顽固，它不想改变。
小词详解 | innate
innate源自晚期拉丁语innatus（天生，原生，自然），主要用于形容人或动物拥有的某种与生俱来的特征或能力，比如一种天赋的音乐天才就可以说“an innate talent for music”。
小词详解 | acerbic
I am acerbic. I can be cruel. It's who I am. Right to the bottom. I'm neither proud of this, nor ashamed of it. It simply is.
我生性尖刻，甚至可以很无情。我就是这个样子，从里到外彻头彻尾都是。我既不以此为傲，也不觉得羞愧，这只是个事实。
小词详解 | profligate
A man gets tired of living a profligate life.
一个厌倦了放荡不羁生活的人。
小词详解 | stolid
To be a colored man in America... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.
在美国做个有色人种……并享受它，你必须非常勇敢、非常冷静、非常幽默以及非常敏感。而且在任何时候都得是一个哲学家。
小词详解 | attrition
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself, your chances are not too bad.
这是一场消耗战。如果你有耐心，对自己有一点点信心，你的机会也不会太糟糕。