小词详解 | lucrative
在如此一个不景气的时期，这份副业很赚钱。
In such a lean period, it was quite a lucrative sideline.
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小词详解 | potent
Potent vs Potential
小词详解 | succumb
他最终为她的魅力所倾倒，透漏了他们的“独门秘笈”。
He finally succumbed to her charms and divulged their special sauce.
小词详解 | affable
她态度和气，爱慕虚荣，喜欢听人吹捧。他很清楚，这一切加在一起，有可能会给她那样家庭地位的妇女带来悲剧。
小词详解 | priority
必须坚定不移把发展作为党执政兴国的第一要务
we must continue to pursue development as the Party’s top priority in governance
小词详解 | austere
他处事严谨，与他爱张扬的妻子形成了鲜明的对比。
He was a man of austere habits, in stark contrast to his more flamboyant wife.
小词详解 | blunt
岁月没有冲淡他的冒险激情。他心中有一支蜡烛，随时准备点燃。
Age hasn't blunted his passion for adventure. There is a candle in his heart, ready to be kindled.
小词详解 | threshold
TVB 港剧《创世纪》（At the Threshold of an Era）
小词详解 | amnesia
But how convenient this amnesia is, how much it excuses!
这种遗忘症是多方便，能用它为多少事情作挡箭牌呀！
小词详解 | essence
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
这还不能算是尽心尽意吗？宁可为了一个人而得罪大家，这难道不是恋爱场上最可贵的地方？
小词详解 | defect
Your defect was not that you knew so little about life, but that you knew so much.
你的毛病不是你对生活懂的太少，而是太多了。
小词详解 | immense
Immense vs Immerse
