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。
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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 | 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 | benign
The most beautiful words in the English language aren't “I love you” but “it's benign.”
最动听的话不是“我爱你”，而是“它是良性的”。
小词详解 | scavenger
Life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
当你将捡破烂想象成惊喜派对时，生活就更容易了。
小词详解 | elicit
If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.
如果人们认为他们可以从我这里得到他们想要的任何条件，那他们就错了。
小词详解 | pristine
Carrie swallowed this story in all its pristine beauty.
嘉莉原原本本地相信了这个美丽的故事。
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 | subversive
The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening.
最具颠覆性的人就是那些提出问题的人，而回答问题则比较不危险。
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 | wade
我已经两足深陷于血泊之中，要是不再涉血前进，那么回头的路也是同样使人厌倦的。