01

　　He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

　　— Ambrose Bierce

　　“有困难思考的人会欣然相信。”

　　alacrity

　　【释义】n. 活泼、轻快、乐意

　　The lack of alacrity in decision-making here is, at best, curious.

　　02

　　Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

　　— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

　　“轻者多言，大者哑口无言。”

　　loquacious

　　【释义】adj. 话多的，健谈的With a wonderful memory for detail, this talkative woman—who my father said never forgets anything—became truly loquacious.

　　03

　　Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

　　— Robert Louis Stevenson

　　“头脑里面相信的真理才是真正的真理，而不是字面上的真理。”

　　veracity

　　【释义】n. 真实、准确What gives the book its integrity are the simplicity and veracity of these recipes and the small touches—bits of history, discovery and personal reflection.

　　04

　　The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberation.

　　— Norman Miller’s

　　“二十世纪的恐怖之处在于每个新事件的规模及其反响的匮乏。”

　　paucity

　　【释义】n. 少量、少许、贫乏This was partly due to the paucity of proper technology and partly due to the lack of proper domain expertise of the managers involved.