Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.
command 除命令，指令外，还可以表示对语言的掌握
I'm inclined to say that your command on English is quite good.
dormitory 宿舍
college dormitory 大学宿舍
secondary 第二的，次要的；副手，代理人；
secondary school 初中
of secondary importance 第二重要
secondary market 次要市场；二手市场
secondary pollution 二次污染
cadence 节奏；韵律；抑扬顿挫，与ryhthm近义
The music is secondary, if you will, to the dramatic cadence of language, to the way the rhythm of language was used to express feeling and used to add drama.
This type of data is subject to threats from hackers and other malicious threats to gain access to the data digitally or physical theft of the data storage media.
virtual reality sickness 3D晕眩症
car sick 晕车
window dressing 充门面，粉饰太平
these measures seem to be mere window dressing and won't solve the problem.
yet to be 有待，尚未
Martin Luther King was killed 53 years ago. His fight for Black voting rights has yet to be won.
The cutoff date for registering is yet to be announced. 注册的截止日期尚未公布。
punctuality is a virtue, being punctual shows your reliability.
infrastructure 基础设施，公共建设
collocation 语言学里专指词语搭配，也就是词组
suit yourself 随你便
- Let's get the obivious stuff out of the way.
- You're not human, are you?
- It's tough to get any more obivious than that.
- If I had to guess, I'd say you're a program from the machine world, so is he.
- So far, so good.
- But if that's true, that could mean you're part of this system, another kind of control.
- Keep going.
- I suppose the most obivious question is, How can I trust you.
- Bingo. It is a pickle, no doubt about it. Bad news is there's no way if you really know whether I'm here to help or not. So it's really up to you. Just have to make up your own damn mind to either accept what I'm going to tell you or reject it. Candy?
- Do you already know if I'm going to take it?
- Wouldn't be much of an oracle if I didn't;
- ....
whereas 然而，鉴于
She has authentic charm whereas most people simply have ncie manners. 她有真正的魅力，而大多数人只是有礼貌而已。
i.e. 即，也就是，相当于that is to say, in other words
His stomachache made him feel wretched(i.e. ill) all day. 他胃疼得整天十分难受（即生病）。
