小词详解 | swathe
You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.
人不可能在生命中的一大段时间里经历持续的残酷和恐怖之后，而不去谈论它，然后就没事了。
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小词详解 | pervade
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
一旦将非暴力视为生命的法则，它必须遍及整个生命，而非应用于孤立的行为。
小词详解 | lurch
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
我从来没能计划好我的生活。我只是从这一时的犹豫不决摇摆到下一刻的犹豫不决。
小词详解 | fiasco
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
失败只不过是成功尚未露面。但惨败则是一场极其严重的灾难。
小词详解 | grapple
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
纪念碑是将一代又一代人紧紧捆绑在一起的多爪锚。
小词详解 | prowess
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
一个国家通往伟大的道路在于其强大的经济实力，而军国主义、帝国主义和侵略则是死路一条。
小词详解 | cascade
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
当女孩们接受教育后，会在整个社会产生连锁反应。
小词详解 | languid
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
他们若有所思地坐着，转动着疲倦的眼睛。
小词详解 | mire
国家积贫积弱、人民贫困如洗，是旧中国留给世人的深刻印象。
In the past, the world knew an old, weak China mired in poverty, its people living in dire misery.
小词详解 | thwart
他正试图阻挠她实现雄心壮志。
He's trying to thwart her ambition.
小词详解 | wallow
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
小词详解 | thaw
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
一只燕子的来临说明不了夏天，但当一群大雁冲破了三月暖流的雾霭时，春天就来到了。