小词详解 | judicious
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
原创不过是明智审慎的模仿。
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小词详解 | heyday
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
漫画在其鼎盛时期，曾在流行文化中占主导地位，但这一切都结束了。
小词详解 | petrify
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
对僵化观点的忠诚从来没有打破过枷锁，也从来没有解放过一个人的灵魂。
小词详解 | deference
Great men always pay deference to greater.
伟大的人总是敬重更伟大的人。
小词详解 | assuage
I pray our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your breavement.
我祈祷我们的上帝能缓和你们丧失亲人的痛苦。
小词详解 | flounder
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
那么为什么要挣扎着等待好生意的到来呢？应改善管理以降低成本，降低价格以匹配购买力。
小词详解 | ruddy
The pictures, with their ruddy light,
Are changed to dust and ashes white,
And I am left alone with night.
这些照片带着红润的光线，
泛成尘土和炉灰的白色，
留下我孑然一人与黑夜。
小词详解 | stymie
Lame execution will stymie a good strategy.
执行不力会阻碍一个好策略。
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。