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 | inept
Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept.
饭店是不善社交者的雷区。
小词详解 | fortitude
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
耐心与坚毅征服一切。
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 | 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。
小词详解 | complacent
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
在这个高度竞争的新时代，我们中没有任何人——没有任何人能够付得起自满的代价。
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 | 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 | 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 | 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。