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燃烧；剧烈氧化（现在分词，此处指树木真的在剧烈燃烧）
"A huge cracking boomed out over the landscape; it was the sound of trees combusting."
灌木丛地带；低矮植被覆盖的荒野（名词，不可数）
"I saw a shift of light behind the mountain, as though an area of scrub or woodland had flared and collapsed..."
突然睡着（因精疲力竭）；机器突然故障停摆
"...though I remembered his tendency to conk out on the sofa, though I thought him too optimistic and trusting, I kept my doubts to myself."
虔诚地；由衷地、极其真诚地
"I repented my own lifelong contribution to the catastrophe on the mountain and realised how devoutly I love water."
忍耐；克制（不发作）—— 动词，第三人称单数形式
"Our son, the youngest, forbears."
懊悔；追悔（为自己过去的错误而感到深深的自责——此处指对一生罄尽的生活方式感到悔悟）
"I repented my own lifelong contribution to the catastrophe on the mountain and realised how devoutly I love water."
疯疯癫癫的、十分荒唐的（英式俚语，略含幽默）
"At eleven o‘clock we all went inside and watched Rivals, and this is the only evidence that we were all a bit bonkers..."
边缘；流苏状细长物（此处形容火焰在山顶的一线形状）
"I pulled my clothes on, went outside and saw a fringe of bright flame above us, I am guessing about five hundred metres long."
私底下、内心里（在此意为‘暗自发问’）
"Privately, I wondered how everyone was a wildfire expert now."
防火带（用于阻止野火蔓延的隔离带）
"We checked a satellite image of the terrain and agreed that the barren mountaintop formed a natural firebreak: there was nothing up there to burn."
贫瘠的、不毛的（不长植被的）
"We checked a satellite image of the terrain and agreed that the barren mountaintop formed a natural firebreak: there was nothing up there to burn."
突发的亮光（名词——突然闪现的火焰/光芒）
"A flare of white light slipped down a different slope, very fast and faster again."
彻底失败的人/事（此处指销量极差的作品）
"Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist presidential candidate in 2022 and mayor of Paris from 2014 until earlier this year, seems to hold the record for the biggest flop, selling just a few hundred copies of her book in 2019."
语气坚定的、显著的（本处指市场中'明显的断裂/两极分化'）
"However, the figures do seem to reflect the stark cleavage between right and left, and the lack of enthusiasm for the centre, currently in charge in French politics."
故意的、固执己见的（此处指明知故犯，且带有蓄意性），尤其'wilful blindness'(故意视而不见)是法律术语，指有意回避不利事实的行为。
"However, despite promises, successive governments have failed to put more than a few of IICSA's recommendations into practice – not least criminal sanctions to punish wilful cover-ups by those in charge."
人生过渡仪式；通过礼（此处喻指成为总统候选人的必要且具象征性程序）
"Here in France writing a book seems to be a rite of passage for would-be presidential candidates."
共谋、串通（本处指机构与施害者达成无声默契）
"The latter, often more eager to protect their reputations than their charges, find it easy to collude."
窥探的、四处乱摸的（不怀好意的好奇心或物理上的伸手行为）
"While most of us shrugged this off, trying to keep out of reach of his prying hands – Payne too was a likeable man – there are credible accounts of more serious assaults on children in his charge, at Eton and elsewhere."
奇异特质、古怪之处（此处指以怀旧眼光看待历史事件的不当剥离性，认为那只属于当时的独特现象）
"It does not aid the work of those attempting to better protect children in institutions today if the behaviour of such criminals is discounted or seen as a mere historical peculiarity."
抚弄者、猥亵者（暗示以过度亲昵行为造成性骚扰）
"The Eton College master Raef Payne, who remarked on Wood's 'delicious navel', was not just a 'camp' eccentric: he was a habitual fondler of the youngest boys in his charge as a housemaster in the 1970s."
猥亵者；伸手乱摸的人（尤指性侵者）
"'Groper' Grove's predilections, from accounts I have had from his victims, were known about beyond the school, yet he taught there unimpeded for 21 years until his retirement in 1978."
免罪、开脱（此处指免除道德/法律责任，通过诱因使其行为显得可接受）
"It is not uncommon in such memoirs of schooldays to read that a predator was likeable and good at their job, or for this to be offered as an excuse or even an exoneration."
比喻完全空白、可供任意书写/塑造的状态（此处指父母被子女视为被动的、无自身历史的个体）
"Wood writes movingly about the parent as a wiped slate on which the child does the writing."
冷嘲的、讥讽的（尤指以严肃或轻描淡写方式表达带有苦味或讽刺意味的幽默）
"James Wood gives a wry account of his encounters with sexually predatory staff at boarding school."
中世纪巡游吟游诗人剧团（此处指14世纪宫廷或市镇雇佣的音乐表演团体）
"With her elder sister, Eileen, she also produced volumes featuring Boys and Girls of History: 'Pocahontas, the Little Tomboy' etc."
俄语 '同志'（复数）的音译，特指苏联时期的正式称呼伴随者
"After the revolution, trains carried an instruction to the tovarishchi to 'kindly refrain from throwing passengers onto the lines while the train is in motion'."
被掩盖的、被伪装的，如同被外衣包裹住（此处 'cloaked in pantomime' 指恐怖被荒诞表演包裹）
"Terror is cloaked in pantomime; easily penetrated disguises are continually being adopted to avoid reprisals."
提炼、浓缩，从大量复杂材料中提取出精华（此处分词为 'distil'，注意英式拼写，美式 'distill'）
"She can distil a large hope or loss in an incisive moment."
（此处指评论）尖刻的、刻薄的，像腐蚀剂一样具有破坏性
"caustic about English newspaper accounts, open to what he read in the bulky East German magazines which arrived every few weeks."
古怪而可笑的，带有一种不动声色的滑稽
"I doubt that my father looked at Rhoda Power's account of the events of 1917, first published in 1919 as Under Cossack and Bolshevik (did no one think that droll?)"
指在共产主义或社会主义家庭中长大的孩子，字面意为'红尿布婴儿'，是带有文化特定性的历史用语
"As the English equivalent of a red diaper baby, I am stained pink, tender not about the politics but about the combination of scepticism and idealism."
（此处指写作上）自我克制、有意的回避，特指不表露个人情感的纪律
"She barely mentions her own responses, an abstinence that now looks like a period attribute."
未被分裂的、完整未破的（不常见词），指大地未遭战乱或冲突切割的原始状态
"On the journey to the family's rented dacha, their jewels stuffed under her mattress on the train, there is a pause, a suspension while she sees red clay, turquoise sky, poplars, as if for a moment the land was unriven."
锐利的、一针见血的，指思想或表达能迅速切入事物本质
"She can distil a large hope or loss in an incisive moment."
开始探讨（棘手或敏感的话题）
"But if Pain and Glory looked back on a life – a film director plagued by injury reflects on his childhood and on the bridges he's burned – then Bitter Christmas broaches the fraught process by which his creations come about."
矫揉造作的；刻意讲究风格的
"If what he means by this is that he risked making a diffuse and somewhat mannered movie, then I would say he has fallen squarely into the trap."
彻底抹除；消灭到无迹可寻
"In other words, he will offer a narcissistic self-portrait through the vessel of her, exacerbating an already devastating gesture and obliterating her in the process."
被损害；被玷污（原先良好的事物）
"All these years of giving actresses the roles of a lifetime, of seeming to adore women and to understand them in all their complexity – have those years in fact been marred by vanity and theft?"
使（本就严重的情况）更加恶化
"In other words, he will offer a narcissistic self-portrait through the vessel of her, exacerbating an already devastating gesture and obliterating her in the process."
（历史或经历）起落沉浮的；变故多的
"Somewhere along the line he eased up on his chequered plots and dizzying pace – ‘mambo taxis’ with leopard-print seats (Women on the Verge) gave way to accidents at sea (Julieta, 2016)."
凝结成块的；变味馊了的（隐喻中带腐败感的甜）
"We’ve seen her in Almodóvar films before – rasping her heart out on a TV screen in a bar, for instance – but here the passionate cry of her voice and the curdled sweetness in her songs become a form of solace and a call to arms."
慰藉；在痛苦中的安慰
"We’ve seen her in Almodóvar films before – rasping her heart out on a TV screen in a bar, for instance – but here the passionate cry of her voice and the curdled sweetness in her songs become a form of solace and a call to arms."
（影片中的）名角客串；小角色露面
"Rossy de Palma – who memorably passes out from drinking spiked gazpacho in Women on the Verge (1988) – has a cameo in Bitter Christmas as Elsa’s unbearable friend Gabriela."
偷偷加入了（致醉或麻醉的）药物的
"Rossy de Palma – who memorably passes out from drinking spiked gazpacho in Women on the Verge (1988) – has a cameo in Bitter Christmas as Elsa’s unbearable friend Gabriela."
坦率；直言不讳
"Mónica’s candour inspires a new thought in Raúl."
极其巧妙的；魔性而让人抓狂地精明的
"A film director makes a film about a film director making a film about a film director who may just about manage to make a film, if migraines and panic attacks allow: it’s not Almodóvar’s – or anyone’s – most gripping plot, and he was once a notably fiendish plotter."
融合为一体（通常指原本不同的特质或物体）
"As it comes to him there is a brightness in his gaze that Mónica has learned to recognise as the moment when an idea is really working – a look that fuses cruelty, creativity and madness."
（演员、主题等）反复出现；再现
"Almodóvar’s films have often been connected to one another – most obviously by the actresses who recur in them, but occasionally also through a sort of narrative baton-passing."
接力棒传递；传承交接（隐喻性的）
"Almodóvar’s films have often been connected to one another – most obviously by the actresses who recur in them, but occasionally also through a sort of narrative baton-passing."
（具有强烈个人风格的）电影作者导演
"The hospital scene is not a credible thread connecting Bitter Christmas to earlier films but a blatant indication of an auteur at a loss."