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（此处作形容词/名词化用法）分形的；指在不同尺度上自我重复、具有自相似结构的传播方式——每一位读者又成为新的传播源，如同分形图案的层层复制
"The fractal spread and, within a few years, the Library of Congress had included it in its permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials."
（短语动词）直面、清算并试图理解（某种艰难或沉重的事物），含'不得不与之对峙、算清这笔账'的意味
"It changed shape (the essays grew longer, the questions deeper) and name (Brain Pickings became The Marginalian) but continued beating with the same heart, reckoning with the ongoing bewilderment of being alive — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder, always offered freely: no advertising, no AI, not even an assistant, a thoroughly one-woman labor of love sustained by the love of strangers."
（语境中）面对存在本身时那种持续的、近乎敬畏的困惑与迷惘——不是需要解决的问题，而是活着的基本状态
"It changed shape (the essays grew longer, the questions deeper) and name (Brain Pickings became The Marginalian) but continued beating with the same heart, reckoning with the ongoing bewilderment of being alive — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder, always offered freely: no advertising, no AI, not even an assistant, a thoroughly one-woman labor of love sustained by the love of strangers."
（在语境中）因身处陌生环境而失去方向感与心理锚点，感到迷茫、无所适从
"At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my way through college."
（语境中）邪恶的、居心不良的；此处带戏谑意味，指那些暗中窃取用户数据的'第三方'
"Privacy policy. (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.)"
（语境中）潜伏、暗中窥伺；此处戏指网络'第三方'埋伏在网页角落里收集数据
"Privacy policy. (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.)"
（作者自造复合词）'购书开销'；biblio-（书）+ expenses（开支），戏指因不断买书而产生的花费
"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."
（习语）出于热爱而非报酬而投入大量心力的工作；'心甘情愿的苦差'
"It changed shape (the essays grew longer, the questions deeper) and name (Brain Pickings became The Marginalian) but continued beating with the same heart, reckoning with the ongoing bewilderment of being alive — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder, always offered freely: no advertising, no AI, not even an assistant, a thoroughly one-woman labor of love sustained by the love of strangers."
（在特定语境中）身无分文、一贫如洗，且带有被剥夺基本生存条件的意味，比 poor 更绝对、更绝望
"At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my way through college."
（语境中的非组合性表达）'以肉身/实体到场'的俏皮说法——与后文'via livestream'（虚拟参加）相对，用'以原子形态'指物理身体真正在场
"If you aren't attending in atoms at breathtaking Saratoga Performing Arts Center — a state-of-the-art outdoor amphitheater in Upstate New York, surrounded by waterfalls and hot springs, awned by an old-growth forest in full autumnal glory — you can join us virtually via this free livestream:"
（语境中）情感基调、情绪底色；指作品在读者心中唤起的情感质地与氛围，比 tone 更强调'被感受到的'维度
"With the format of The Universe in Verse and the feeling-tone of my Marginalian essays, the evening will feature live appearances and special contributions across spacetime by a constellation of beloved humans who have made my own life more livable over the years, among them Debbie Millman, Joan As Police Woman, Krista Tippett, Marie Howe, Diane Ackerman, James Gleick, Natascha McElhone, Sophie Blackall, Stephon Alexander, Natalie Batalha, Willow Defebaugh, Wendy MacNaughton, Zoë Keating, Nick Cave, Paola Prestini with the Young People's Chorus of New York City, and surprise guests."
（此处引申用法）'以……为顶篷/遮檐覆盖的'；aw 原指麦穗上的芒或建筑上的遮篷，作者将其活用为'被……如华盖般笼罩'
"If you aren't attending in atoms at breathtaking Saratoga Performing Arts Center — a state-of-the-art outdoor amphitheater in Upstate New York, surrounded by waterfalls and hot springs, awned by an old-growth forest in full autumnal glory — you can join us virtually via this free livestream:"
（搭配/文学表达）秋日的绚烂；指秋天树叶变色时那种金黄绯红的辉煌景象，'glory'带有庄严、盛大的宗教-诗歌余韵
"If you aren't attending in atoms at breathtaking Saratoga Performing Arts Center — a state-of-the-art outdoor amphitheater in Upstate New York, surrounded by waterfalls and hot springs, awned by an old-growth forest in full autumnal glory — you can join us virtually via this free livestream:"
（生态学术语）原始林的、原生林的；指未经采伐、历经漫长岁月自然演替形成的森林，富含枯木、层次复杂、生态价值极高
"If you aren't attending in atoms at breathtaking Saratoga Performing Arts Center — a state-of-the-art outdoor amphitheater in Upstate New York, surrounded by waterfalls and hot springs, awned by an old-growth forest in full autumnal glory — you can join us virtually via this free livestream:"
（语境中）令人屏息的、美到让人忘记呼吸的；此处修饰戏剧性极强的自然与建筑景观
"If you aren't attending in atoms at breathtaking Saratoga Performing Arts Center — a state-of-the-art outdoor amphitheater in Upstate New York, surrounded by waterfalls and hot springs, awned by an old-growth forest in full autumnal glory — you can join us virtually via this free livestream:"
男性特质；阳刚特征（此处指被社会编码为男性化的行为方式）
"Women and smaller people were especially encouraged to mimic masculine traits, lowering their voices and escalating to physical contact quickly."
被种族化的；带有种族建构色彩的（学术术语，指某概念被赋予种族含义）
"Katzenstein argues that the logic of "command presence" assumes a racialized "thug," "poised to attack the weak and unimposing, who understands only the language of dominance.""
随时准备（做某事）的；蓄势待发的（此处指'暴徒'随时可能发动攻击）
"Katzenstein argues that the logic of "command presence" assumes a racialized "thug," "poised to attack the weak and unimposing, who understands only the language of dominance.""
升级为；（冲突、局势）逐步加剧演变成
"If the recruit seemed hesitant, they escalated into violence."
伏击；埋伏（此处指警员可能遭到的突袭）
"One training officer explained that a situation only "breaks bad" on "1 percent of calls," but police always need to think tactically about the possibility of being attacked or ambushed."
（局面）急转直下、恶化、失控（口语化表达，此处加引号表示引用警员行话）
"One training officer explained that a situation only "breaks bad" on "1 percent of calls," but police always need to think tactically about the possibility of being attacked or ambushed."
统驭气场；权威存在感（执法训练术语，指通过体态、语气展现权威与掌控力）
"To avoid an escalating violent situation, recruits learned, it's important to maintain "command presence," a display of both strength and professionalism."
令人反感地；讨人嫌地（此处描述扮演滋事者的志愿者的表演方式）
"In live trainings, volunteers posing as troublemakers behaved obnoxiously but backed down in the face of an authoritative response."
退让；让步；收回强硬立场（phrasal verb，指在对抗中放弃坚持）
"In live trainings, volunteers posing as troublemakers behaved obnoxiously but backed down in the face of an authoritative response."
不起眼的；不威严的；缺乏威慑力的
"Katzenstein argues that the logic of "command presence" assumes a racialized "thug," "poised to attack the weak and unimposing, who understands only the language of dominance.""
消除、驱散（疑虑、想法、误解等抽象事物）
"Katzenstein noted that the departments she worked with actively tried to dispel the idea that they were teaching cops to think of themselves as warriors, instead promising to help them serve the community as engaged "guardians.""
（此处）搬演、重现、模拟表演（把情景实际表演出来）
"However, Katzenstein found that these scenarios are still often dramatic enactments of worst-case scenarios."
施以援手；提供救助（正式用语，多用于医疗、救援语境）
"In another VR scenario, the recruit must shoot a man who draws a gun during a traffic stop. Then, rather than immediately rendering aid, they must keep holding their weapon on him, searching him for another gun, before tending to his wounds."
必然涉及；牵涉（在此语境中指'这种改革究竟意味着什么、会包含哪些具体内容'）
"From 2015 to 2018, anthropologist Jessica Katzenstein took a close look at what that might entail, observing trainings conducted at Maryland police departments."
对你不尊重、任意摆布你；骑在你头上（口语习语，指对方若发现你软弱就会得寸进尺）
"In the poorer area, if officers fail to maintain control "they'll walk all over you," one instructor claimed."
旷日持久的、拖延的
"There will be truces from time to time, but the opposition of interests, the intensity of the animosity on both sides, and the nature of the opposing objectives is such that it’s probably going to be a protracted war."
注释、诠释（此处引申为'精辟的解读'）
"Mounk: That’s a great gloss on that famous line by Sun Tzu, that the most important thing is to understand your enemy."
博学的、学识渊博的
"Even though I know I have a particularly erudite listenership, I feel like Clausewitz is a constant reference, but unless you’re a military historian or a military strategist, I don’t know how many people have actually read Clausewitz."
僵局、死胡同（无法取得进展的局面）
"…the ground troops seem mired in a kind of World War One impasse."
（德语）'新鲜而愉快'，此处戏指'轻快利落、速战速决'
"We like our wars—I think the German phrase is frisch und fröhlich—short and sharp."
认真对待、把……纳入考量（常含'未能预见/低估'意味）
"But they don’t seem to have reckoned with the Iranian ability to close the Strait of Hormuz."
（根深蒂固的）反感、厌恶
"I think one is his antipathy to the regime is qualitatively different than his attitude to just about any other country on earth."
（选举或比赛中）惨败、被痛击
"Now he is facing a terrible shellacking in his second-term midterms, about to be a huge lame duck, and a big part of the reason for that is an unpopular war of choice."
（比喻）斩首式地铲除某组织的最高领导层
"They believed they had a plan that’s very similar to Venezuela, where they’re going to go in, use massive force, and decapitate the Iranian regime."
卷帙浩繁的大部头书（此处指篇幅庞大的学术著作）
"So what I wanted to do was to write a book, a relatively brief book, that would not be a massive tome, to try to focus people on the original meaning of the word."
跛脚鸭（任期将满、影响力式微的官员）
"Now he is facing a terrible shellacking in his second-term midterms, about to be a huge lame duck, and a big part of the reason for that is an unpopular war of choice."
（概念、体系）膨胀臃肿、被过度填充的
"I think what’s happened is that the word “strategy” has gotten so diluted, and the considerations of it really so bloated, that people have in some ways lost the ability to think about it."
（长篇的）谩骂、责骂
"On the other hand, I think you’re right that part of his self-conception is that he’s the only guy who can settle wars, and that accounts for two fits of vituperation: one against Volodymyr Zelensky, which is really pernicious and unwarranted, and the other against the hapless Norwegians on the Nobel Prize Committee, who he went after for not giving him the Nobel Prize."
（潜移默化地）有害的、恶性的
"…one against Volodymyr Zelensky, which is really pernicious and unwarranted, and the other against the hapless Norwegians on the Nobel Prize Committee…"
（因震惊而）惊骇的、愤慨的
"I actually conducted a study for the Defense Policy Board on our counterinsurgency doctrine and was pretty appalled to realize that the manuals all dated back to Vietnam."
路径依赖（早期选择会锁定后续可能性、排他性地约束未来选项）
"The one I would just highlight is what social scientists like to call path dependence—that once you’ve made one choice, you’ve actually foreclosed others."
排除、使（某种可能性）无法实现
"The one I would just highlight is what social scientists like to call path dependence—that once you’ve made one choice, you’ve actually foreclosed others."
倒霉的、可怜的（常带无辜受害的意味）
"…the other against the hapless Norwegians on the Nobel Prize Committee, who he went after for not giving him the Nobel Prize."
容忍、容许（多用于否定句）
"I think it’s partially that he has this very strange competition with Barack Obama, and he can’t brook the idea that Obama won the Peace Prize, of course, hugely prematurely and strangely—but Obama did, and he himself is not going to."
把……置于（某种不利境地）、交付给（常含'听任处置'意味）
"That’s because, basically, Poland had been consigned to the Soviet sphere of influence."