小词详解 | vestige
There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
既没有开始的痕迹，也没有结束的迹象。
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小词详解 | eschew
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace.
避免平庸，鄙弃平凡。
小词详解 | enact
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
如果我们不能或不执行我们现有的法律，那么制定更多的法律当然毫无意义。
小词详解 | discern
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
智慧的首要之点是能判别什么是错误的，其次能知道何者为正确。
小词详解 | vicious
But if we allow vicious, evil attacks to pass unchallenged - then the whole system must be undermined.
但如果我们任由他人恶意攻击，整个制度就将遭到破坏。
小词详解 | engulf
野火可以吞噬雨林，而雨林里的一些野生动物也可以“大口吞食”猎物，比如蛇囫囵吞下食物（snakes engulf their food whole）。
小词详解 | gospel
对于基督教的信徒们而言， gospel 自然代表的是“绝对真理”或者说“无可置疑的事物”。
小词详解 | quarantine
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
民主制度形成了针对暴政欲望的隔离制度。
小词详解 | pandemic
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
地球上没有任何一场战争比艾滋病大流行更具破坏性。
小词详解 | cripple
It is not to be imagined how far constancy will carry a man; however it is better walking slowly in a rugged way, than to break a leg and be a cripple.
小词详解 | swagger
Love me or hate me. It’s one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger.
小词详解 | tarnish
Tarnish 源自中古法语 ternir （暗淡光泽或亮度、使暗淡），本义指“（使）失去光泽、暗淡”，尤指因为暴露在空气或湿气中而失去光泽，比如发乌的银烛台（tarnished silver candlesticks）。