小词详解 | chronic
短期内迅速治愈英国经济顽症的灵丹妙药并不存在。
There is no easy short-term solution to Britain's chronic economic malaise.
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小词详解 | congenial
值得注意是， congenial 与 congenital （天生的、先天的）形似，阅读与拼写时要注意区别。
小词详解 | subside
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
痛苦是暂时的。它可能会持续一分钟、一小时、一天或一年，但最终它会消退，然后其他的东西会取代它。然而，如果我放弃了，它将永远持续下去。
小词详解 | tacit
In the tacit agreement of husband and wife to keep their estrangement a secret they behaved as would have been ordinary.
在这一对夫妻之间有一种默契，要对他们破裂的关系保持沉默，尽量表现得像普通的夫妇一样。
小词详解 | tether
Nae man can tether time or tide.
没有人能拴住时间或潮汐。
小词详解 | collude
警方涉嫌与证人暗中串通。
It was suspected that the police had colluded with the witnesses.
小词详解 | precipitate
Their silverfoil of leaves precipitating, their skinny arms ageing and swaying.
银纸叶子坠落，骨瘦如柴的胳膊老迈而摇来摆去。
小词详解 | clout
Never cast a clout till May be out.
未过五月时，棉衣不可抛。
小词详解 | spawn
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
只有一代读者才能催生一代作家。
小词详解 | sporadic
Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.
始终如一坚持做的小事，即使平淡无奇，也会比零星做的大事收获更多。
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。
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。