小词详解 | outstrip
outstrip源于out-（胜过）+ strip（旧义快速移动），因此它的原意是比对手跑得快，从而体现出一种在比赛或竞争中超越他人的意味。如果一个公司的利润outstrip另外一家公司，说明这家公司的盈利能力更强。
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小词详解 | impeach
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
我自食其果。我通过辞职弹劾了自己。
小词详解 | frenetic
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
这些年来，我一直被要求扮演这些用身体来表达他们情感的可怕的疯狂角色。
小词详解 | cryptic
一个没有书架的人总是莫测难解的；一个没有书的房子相当于是全裸的。
小词详解 | propensity
Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties.
一般说来妇女较之男人更倾注于尽到父母的责任。
小词详解 | flurry
His eyes were so quiet, so kind, so understanding that she wondered how she could ever have been silly enough to be flurried.
他的眼光是那么宁静，那么温和，显得那么通情达理，以致她惊讶自己怎么会那样愚蠢竟发起慌来了。
小词详解 | exacting
Exact → Exacting
小词详解 | dither
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.
想象一下，一颗巨大的小行星正在与地球直接相撞。这相当于我们现在面临的气候变化，然而我们却还在犹豫不决。
小词详解 | ironclad
clad的意思是“包覆”、“穿衣”，所以ironclad就是“包铁”的。19世纪后期，由于木造军舰无法抵御炮弹，铁甲舰（ironclad warship）应运而生。
小词详解 | furry
As Harry sat down, a furry ginger cat with a squashed face jumped onto his knees and settled there, purring.
哈利刚坐下，一只扁平脸、毛茸茸的姜黄色的猫就跳上了他的膝头，趴在他腿上呼噜呼噜地叫着。
小词详解 | throng
There, in those gay shadows of verdure, a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the twittering forgot to say the humming completed.
在那里，在那些爽心悦目、绿叶浅阴的地方，有无数天真的声音在轻轻叙诉衷肠，嘤嘤鸟语忘了说的，嗡嗡虫声在追补。
小词详解 | scoop
The dragon did not seem to have noticed anything: It was already fifty feet away, swooping low over the lake to scoop up water in its scarred snout.
巨龙似乎什么也没有注意到，它已经在五十英尺外，正俯冲到湖面上用伤疤累累的口鼻饮水。
