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序曲、前奏；此处指书中第 0 章“序章”
"And so: I took the first page of each of the first twenty chapters of my first book, Figuring — who wrote that book? — beginning with the prelude (Chapter 0), and applied my bird divination process to the text, letting the words refigure themselves into something new, something I have learned about life along the way of living, some piece of advice I needed to hear whispered by my own unconscious."
抽奖、摸彩；此处指以捐赠为入场券的慈善抽奖
"To celebrate the monumental role chance plays in any given life, without which none of us would be who we are, or here at all, I am giving these away in a pay-what-you-wish raffle: To enter, make a donation in any amount that is right for you by December 31, so long as you end it with the decimal .20."
“天文数字般的购书开销”——作者自造的诙谐复合词（biblio- 书 + expenses 开销）
"In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book from a link here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses."
重新配置、重构；此处指自我的不断重组与更新，是全文核心隐喻之一
"It called for a ritual — to honor those past persons, to celebrate the constant reconfiguration of the self."
潜伏、暗藏；此处指网络“第三方”鬼鬼祟祟地藏匿于后台窥探用户
"(TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.)"
（动词）浇铸、灌注成型；此处指用树脂把字词浇铸进碗中
"Enlisting the help of two of my greatest teachers — clay, which is constantly teaching me how to hold on while letting go and how to say “YES” to life, and lichen, which has a great deal to teach us about loneliness, patience, and resilience — I made twenty ceramic bowls glazed in the color scheme of The Marginalian, with some blue for its existential value and its lens on the universe, and I cast the words in them with resin over lichen from places I have lived over the years, from Bulgaria to Patagonia."
“按心意付费／随喜付费”模式（顾客自定价格）
"To celebrate the monumental role chance plays in any given life, without which none of us would be who we are, or here at all, I am giving these away in a pay-what-you-wish raffle: To enter, make a donation in any amount that is right for you by December 31, so long as you end it with the decimal .20."
占卜；此处指作者把文本当作神谕般随机抽取字词来重组意义的仪式性做法（作者戏称为“bird divination process”，借鸟卜/飞鸟占的古典意象）
"And so: I took the first page of each of the first twenty chapters of my first book, Figuring — who wrote that book? — beginning with the prelude (Chapter 0), and applied my bird divination process to the text, letting the words refigure themselves into something new, something I have learned about life along the way of living, some piece of advice I needed to hear whispered by my own unconscious."
纪念碑般的、巨大的；此处指偶然性（chance）在人生中所起的“纪念碑式”巨大作用
"To celebrate the monumental role chance plays in any given life, without which none of us would be who we are, or here at all, I am giving these away in a pay-what-you-wish raffle: To enter, make a donation in any amount that is right for you by December 31, so long as you end it with the decimal .20."
“边缘人/旁注者”——作者博客 The Marginalian 的名称（原 Brain Pickings），暗示在书页边缘做批注、关注被主流忽视之物的身份
"It has been an odd thing, looking back on twenty years of The Marginalian — the record of half a lifetime of learning how to live."
地衣（真菌与藻类/蓝细菌的共生体）；文中作为“孤独、耐心与韧性”的象征性导师
"Enlisting the help of two of my greatest teachers — clay, which is constantly teaching me how to hold on while letting go and how to say “YES” to life, and lichen, which has a great deal to teach us about loneliness, patience, and resilience — I made twenty ceramic bowls glazed in the color scheme of The Marginalian, with some blue for its existential value and its lens on the universe, and I cast the words in them with resin over lichen from places I have lived over the years, from Bulgaria to Patagonia."
“存在论意义上的价值”——作者半开玩笑地把蓝色说成具有哲学分量，指其关乎存在本身的意涵
"Enlisting the help of two of my greatest teachers — clay, which is constantly teaching me how to hold on while letting go and how to say “YES” to life, and lichen, which has a great deal to teach us about loneliness, patience, and resilience — I made twenty ceramic bowls glazed in the color scheme of The Marginalian, with some blue for its existential value and its lens on the universe, and I cast the words in them with resin over lichen from places I have lived over the years, from Bulgaria to Patagonia."
（名词化用法）无意识、潜意识；此处指作者心中未被察觉的那部分自我，仿佛在低语忠告
"And so: I took the first page of each of the first twenty chapters of my first book, Figuring — who wrote that book? — beginning with the prelude (Chapter 0), and applied my bird divination process to the text, letting the words refigure themselves into something new, something I have learned about life along the way of living, some piece of advice I needed to hear whispered by my own unconscious."
（动词）给陶器上釉；此处指给陶碗施以网站配色的釉
"Enlisting the help of two of my greatest teachers — clay, which is constantly teaching me how to hold on while letting go and how to say “YES” to life, and lichen, which has a great deal to teach us about loneliness, patience, and resilience — I made twenty ceramic bowls glazed in the color scheme of The Marginalian, with some blue for its existential value and its lens on the universe, and I cast the words in them with resin over lichen from places I have lived over the years, from Bulgaria to Patagonia."
重大的、具有历史意义的；此处指黏土在作者生活中所扮演的分量极重的角色
"To celebrate the monumental role chance plays in any given life, without which none of us would be who we are, or here at all, I am giving these away in a pay-what-you-wish raffle: To enter, make a donation in any amount that is right for you by December 31, so long as you end it with the decimal .20."
韧性、复原力；此处指地衣在极端环境中存续的能力，并借以喻人
"Enlisting the help of two of my greatest teachers — clay, which is constantly teaching me how to hold on while letting go and how to say “YES” to life, and lichen, which has a great deal to teach us about loneliness, patience, and resilience — I made twenty ceramic bowls glazed in the color scheme of The Marginalian, with some blue for its existential value and its lens on the universe, and I cast the words in them with resin over lichen from places I have lived over the years, from Bulgaria to Patagonia."
重新塑形、重新构想；此处既指把文本字词重新组合成新意义，也指自我的“重构”（与全文 reconfiguration 主题呼应）
"And so: I took the first page of each of the first twenty chapters of my first book, Figuring — who wrote that book? — beginning with the prelude (Chapter 0), and applied my bird divination process to the text, letting the words refigure themselves into something new, something I have learned about life along the way of living, some piece of advice I needed to hear whispered by my own unconscious."
正相反之物；对立面（此处指抽签式抽奖与“富者愈富”的拍卖在道德逻辑上的两极对立）
"(The loveliness of a lottery, which is an antipode to the rich-getting-richer ugliness of an auction, is that your odds are equal whether you enter with $1.20 or $10,000.20 — the only difference is by how much you support this ongoing labor of love.)"
穷凶极恶的、居心叵测的；此处用于调侃式的夸张，形容网络上“潜伏的第三方”追踪用户
"(TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.)"
（动词）争取、借助、招募；此处指作者求助于黏土与地衣这两位“老师”
"Enlisting the help of two of my greatest teachers — clay, which is constantly teaching me how to hold on while letting go and how to say “YES” to life, and lichen, which has a great deal to teach us about loneliness, patience, and resilience — I made twenty ceramic bowls glazed in the color scheme of The Marginalian, with some blue for its existential value and its lens on the universe, and I cast the words in them with resin over lichen from places I have lived over the years, from Bulgaria to Patagonia."
恰当的例子；明证（用以佐证前述论断的典型实例）
"American politics is a good case in point."
预先选定；事先内定（此处指政党精英在初选前事实上筛定候选人）
"party elites use endorsements and campaign contributions to help favored politicians in primaries, effectively preselecting approved candidates."
取得长足进步（stride 本指大步，喻显著进展）
"Over the last three decades, political scientists have made impressive strides in understanding how the political world functions"
预测这一行当；做预言的行当（'be in the X business'为固定结构，意为'从事X'）
"For one, academics aren't in the forecasting business."
司法系统；司法部门（作为整体的法院与法官）
"Scholars of the judiciary have shown to what degree the past ideological alignment of Supreme Court justices predicts their decisions in future cases."
相互扣合的；环环相扣、彼此关联的
"Three interlocking methodological shifts account for much of that progress."
意识形态立场的一致/归位（指法官在政治光谱上的定位与其判决倾向）
"Scholars of the judiciary have shown to what degree the past ideological alignment of Supreme Court justices predicts their decisions in future cases."
迫在眉睫的；即将发生的（尤指危险或重大事件）
"they are falling back into some of the same errors that led them to miss the imminent rise of populism"
（政治）背书；公开支持（尤指政党精英对候选人的正式表态）
"party elites use endorsements and campaign contributions to help favored politicians in primaries"
错综复杂的；精巧繁复的
"Of what use were all their intricate models if they couldn't predict such a huge systemic crisis?"
偶然性；不确定性（事件取决于偶然因素而非必然规律）
"For another, there is such a thing as contingency: When the unlikely comes to pass, even correct models of the social world fail to see around the next historical corner."
惨败；被痛击（特指选举中的一边倒失败）
"He is likely to experience a severe shellacking at the upcoming midterms."
不可思议的；离奇而令人不安的（此处指特朗普对美国政治体系那种近乎超自然的掌控力）
"We have become so used to his uncanny hold over the American political system that it is easy to forget how shocking and unexpected it was at the time."
即将发生；在地平线上（喻指迫在眉睫但尚未显现之事）
"one of the most seismic American political events in a half-century might be on the horizon."
令人眩晕的；快得让人眼花缭乱的（喻变化之迅猛）
"The most obvious is the dizzying rise of Donald Trump."
党派认同；政党归属（政治学中对选民/议员党派立场的量化指标）
"by looking to such factors as their party ID, their past votes, or their biggest donors."
造成、招致（的）；worked 的古体过去分词，'the chaos wrought by X' 即'X所造成的混乱'
"failing to foresee Brexit, the chaos wrought in the Philippines by Rodrigo Duterte, and the serious threat posed to Polish democracy by its populist government, among other developments."
在……之后；随……而来（常指某事件引发后果的紧随时期）
"In the wake of the Great Recession, economists faced tough questions:"
重大的；具有深远意义的
"so political scientists failed to predict a series of momentous political upsets."
预见未来；看清即将发生之事（字面'看得到拐角那边'）
"even correct models of the social world fail to see around the next historical corner."
颠覆；推翻（把某物倒置，喻彻底改变既有认知或秩序）
"In short, reality upended what we thought we knew even in areas where dominant theories did seem to make clear predictions."
顽强的抵抗；强硬的抵制
"an outsider with virtually no institutional backing put up stiff resistance against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries"
冷不防地措手不及；被打了个措手不及（强调毫无防备且狼狈）
"this failure was not limited to the journalistic class; social scientists were also caught badly off-guard."
一扫而空；轻易扫除（把障碍或对手一举清除）
"an even greater outsider with even less institutional backing swept the competition aside to become the Republican nominee"
刚毕业（强调从研究生院出来不久、初入行的状态）
"As I argued ten years ago, still fresh out of graduate school, this failure was not limited to the journalistic class"
努力应对；竭力处理（难题）
"As social scientists grapple with the ways in which artificial intelligence will transform our economy and our democracy"
以吹毛求疵的方式搪塞、回避（把重大问题消解于琐碎争辩中）
"And yet it would be a mistake to quibble away the failure of scholars to recognize that, say, one of the most seismic American political events in a half-century might be on the horizon."
断裂式变革；非连续性、跳跃式的转变（区别于渐进演变）
"At a moment of disjunctive change, they are uncritically looking at recent data to predict what might happen in the future."
不可能之事竟然发生（come to pass 为古雅说法，意为'发生、应验'）
"For another, there is such a thing as contingency: When the unlikely comes to pass, even correct models of the social world fail to see around the next historical corner."
地震般的；震撼性的、颠覆性的（此处喻指政治上的剧变）
"one of the most seismic American political events in a half-century might be on the horizon."