Loading...
Loading...
恳切地劝告；强烈地敦促或鼓励。常带有一种道德上的严肃性和紧迫感。
"Patriarchal men, from those in Korea to Americans like Vice President JD Vance, exhort women to bear children, but have made the world less desirable to live in for many"
这是一个比喻修辞（metaphor）。意指人们像经营一家企业一样，精明、主动且有策略地管理、投资和改造自己的身体，以最大化其‘寿命’和‘性能’的回报。
"In modern times, in many ways, they have become entrepreneurs of their own bodies: obsessed with nutrition, skincare and weightlifting, hoping to prolong a meat-based existence."
将（某物）归因于或归功于（某人/某物）。在此语境中，指传统上被归属于‘神圣知识’范畴的事物（如蛋白质图谱、睡眠科学）。
"We are rapidly coming to understand information about human bodies that touches upon our creation and would traditionally have been ascribed to a realm of divine knowledge — maps of human proteins, the science of sleep."
Young Urban Professionals（年轻都市专业人士）的首字母缩略词。指一群收入高、工作上进、消费追求高品质和品牌化的都市白领。此处带有一丝自嘲和群体归属感的意味。
"So we go to the sauna and moisturize, we eat our slop and do our bloodwork, we yuppies gathering on the edge of a great transformation to human society."
字面意思是‘嗜血的’；在此上下文中，用于形容作者青春期认识的男孩，带有一种强烈的批判和讽刺意味，意指他们当时凶猛、好斗、充满破坏性的生命力或不加约束的野性。
"Like me, the bloodthirsty boys I knew in my late adolescence in Beijing have become anxious men who want to prolong the lives they had once seemed poised to squander, who want to do anything to make sure they’re young or at least imbued with the vitality of the young for as long as possible."
与…秘密结盟或合作，通常带有阴谋意味。意指美国政府与大型科技公司勾结在一起，共同对付民众。
"My suspicion is Americans feel that their government doesn’t have their interests or safety at heart, that it is actually in league with Big Tech."
他们的同类。指与先前提到的人属于同一类或同一类型的人，通常带有贬义或轻蔑的意味。在此指‘像他们一样的人’。
"As such fears spread, Musk, Johnson and their ilk are working to create a future that they and their heirs will reign over."
正处于…的关键转折点；即将进入（一个新状态或新阶段）。‘Cusp’指两个弧形相交的点，如月牙的尖角。比喻指两个时期或状态之间的临界点。
"And yet, I believe that we are on the cusp of major advances in AI, and that by the time my toddler-age sons are in elementary school, whatever is going to happen will have happened."
超人类主义。一种哲学和运动，主张利用科技（如AI、基因工程、脑机接口）来超越人类当前的身体和认知局限，最终创造出‘后人类’。
"In China, transhumanism is a post-socialist industrial theology: the dream of a perfected collective body."
事后的想法；事后才想起的事物。在此语境中，意指婚姻和抚养孩子在这些人的生活中不再是重心或首要计划，而是被排在次要位置，甚至是被完全忽略的‘事后的想法’。
"In other high-tech places like South Korea, which has the world’s lowest birthrate at around five per 1,000 people, many individuals live in digital solitude, and marriage and child-rearing are often an afterthought or rejected altogether."
神学。在此文中，它被用作隐喻。作者将中国的超人类主义称为一种‘工业神学’。意指它像一种宗教一样，提供了一套关于未来的、不可质疑的宏大叙事和目标，并拥有自己的一套信条和信仰者。
"In China, transhumanism is a post-socialist industrial theology: the dream of a perfected collective body."
安全化。指将一个原本不属于安全范畴的问题（如交通、移民）定义为国家安全威胁，并以此为由采取特殊措施（如设置检查站、加强警力）的过程。
"The securitisation, Hanna notes, was performative and pointless, as anyone actually transporting weapons knew to use the unmonitored local roads."
使用多种语言的；多语种的。此处形容伦敦是一个多民族、多语言汇聚的国际化大都市。
"London became uniquely polyglot and prosperous, its inhabitants 40 per cent foreign-born and on average eight years younger than those of Scotland..."
表面上看；表面上声称地。暗示实际情况与表面声称的相反。
"...its young professionals embracing high-rise living, ostensibly alien to Britain."
封存，废弃。原意指在衣物中放入樟脑丸以防虫蛀，后引申为将设备、项目或计划长期闲置或废弃。
"The local authority, citing adequate existing housing and protests from student radicals squatting on nearby farms, but perhaps also wary of the project’s private financing, shelved it in 1976. Everything about that failure is revealing... But the mid-1970s date of Maryculter’s mothballing is also significant..."
（思想、体系或关系中的）严重分歧，裂痕。这里比喻“复苏城市”和“落后城市”之间日益加深的、难以弥合的经济和社会差距。
"But as global forces bit deeper, the fissure between 'resurgent cities' and 'cities left behind' widened."
被困在（一个偏僻、荒凉的地方）无法离开；孤立无援。在此指那些母亲们被困在缺乏公共设施的新区，如同被放逐到荒岛。
"The estate emptied of men during the day, leaving mothers marooned with young children and dependent on traders who sold a few goods from mobile vans..."
先驱；预兆。预言某事（通常是不好的事）即将发生的人或物。
"I lived in Stepney in the winter of 1980, when the National Front were confronted by the Anti-Nazi League in East London, and on Sandringham Road in Hackney half a dozen years later, when every third or fourth house was derelict or taken over by squatters – but those protesters and squatters were harbingers of things to come."
表演性的；表述性的。在此指某行为或声明的目的是为了做出某种姿态、产生某种效果，而非出于真诚或产生实际效用，常带有“作秀”、“徒有其表”的贬义。
"The securitisation, Hanna notes, was performative and pointless, as anyone actually transporting weapons knew to use the unmonitored local roads."
不可磨灭地；永久地。强调留下的印记非常深刻，无法被移除或遗忘。
"H.J. (Jim) Dyos ... indelibly shaped the study of city life."
（尤指长途地、费力地）步行，徒步跋涉。这里强调一种脚踏实地、亲身探索城市细节的研究方式。
"Dyos thought we should study the city by tramping the streets, using all our senses, as well as spending time in archives..."
指像喜鹊一样，喜欢收集各种不同、新奇的材料或知识的研究方法。比喻博采众长，兼收并蓄，但可能缺乏系统性。
"H.J. (Jim) Dyos died in 1978, still in his fifties, but as the UK’s first professor of urban history and still more through his enthusiastic collaborations and magpie methods, he indelibly shaped the study of city life."
这是一个隐喻，指照亮一个又一个被遗忘的角落，即揭示或阐明了那些先前被忽视或不被理解的城市历史、文化或社会现象。
"Like its predecessor, this collection is variable but sparkly, travelling down scholarly alleyways and shooting light into one forgotten corner after another."
异端的；非正统的。在此语境下指城市变迁的形态并非单一的、主流理论所描述的模式，而是多样的、混杂的，不符合正统的分类。
"Both are helpful framings, but once one dives into the essays, it is the heterodox, intersecting and often bottom-up nature of urban change that stands out."
（将液体）轻轻倒入（另一容器），以留下沉淀物。在这里是一个精妙的隐喻，指将某一阶层的人（白人工人阶级）从一个地区转移（清空）到另一个地区，如同倒酒时将液体与沉淀物分离。
"By that point, Newham’s population had changed, as rapid deindustrialisation and the decline of the docks decanted its white working class to Essex, leaving a poorer, more vulnerable and now disproportionally immigrant population to bear the costs..."
不可或缺性；绝对必要性
"...and the indispensability of the lyric as a way we, as a species, come to be and know ourselves."
对抗的；抵消的；起平衡作用的
"its prickliness is usually paired with a countervailing sweetness, the blackberry or the rose..."
祖先；起源；先驱（此处比喻为'创造者'或'本源'）
"But then our maladies are assuaged by the elements themselves, our true and lasting progenitors:"
长篇的、激烈的抨击性演说或指责
"...that cascade of speculation, that tirade of what-abouts ... and the con man’s touts, the con man’s touts."
打谷机（此处为比喻，比喻像机器一样无情地筛分和搅碎信息的电视屏幕）
"The rat-a-blab, rat-a-blab, rat-a-blab screen: our threshing machine, where I type these lines in loathing..."
经过提炼和浓缩后的精华；萃取物
"‘Motion and Turn: Water’s Ways’ and ‘The Imperceptible, or Wilderness’ could be further distillations of the essays in Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002)..."
不吸引人的；不引人注目的；相貌平平的
"‘The Horseshoe Crab’ is a tender meditation on the spiny, unprepossessing creature..."
阐明；解释清楚（通常指复杂或模糊的事物）
"But she is not only a theorist; she has always alternated books of poetry with books about it, allowing her practice to elucidate her abstractions."
直言不讳的；说话坦率的；不矫饰的
"This plain-spoken address to the arthropod from the Ordovician period is unclear on ‘who is saving whom’."
（比喻）一连串、大量倾泻而来的事物（如信息、话语）
"That ugly face, like a floater on the retina, that grid of talking mouths, that cascade of speculation, that tirade of what-abouts ..."
安慰；慰藉（通常指在悲痛或困难中）
"We find solace in creatures who survive in the liminal spaces our instincts tell us to flee."
再次总结或重述（之前阐述过的主题或观点）
"In her Clarendon Lectures, given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan Stewart recapitulates themes that have preoccupied her for half a century."
使（某人）持续专注于或沉溺于（某种思想或主题）
"In her Clarendon Lectures, given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan Stewart recapitulates themes that have preoccupied her for half a century."
补充或衬托，使之趋于完美或完整
"‘The Seasons: Paradigm of Lyric Time’ complements her most recent monograph, The Ruins Lesson (2020)."
感知的对象；感觉印象（相对于概念）
"(Of the many philosophers she draws on in her work, Kant is among the most prominent: concepts without percepts are empty; percepts without concepts are blind.)"
守寡；孀居状态
"There can be no bloodless way to introduce a book about the shock of widowhood..."
一位艺术家的全部作品
"...panning out across her oeuvre, it is clear that this is a paradigmatic moment on which Stewart plays variations."
阈限的；处于两个阶段或状态之间的；界限模糊的
"We find solace in creatures who survive in the liminal spaces our instincts tell us to flee."
（书、章节或诗歌前的）引语；题词
"The collection is full of epigraphs on the bramble taken from the Bible, Virgil, Spenser and others."
范式的；作为典型例子的
"...it is clear that this is a paradigmatic moment on which Stewart plays variations."
（声音、言语等）甜蜜流畅的；悦耳的
"But this is a rare moment of unadulterated happiness in a sombre book. A few pages later, ‘the junkman’ forces the poet to consider the accommodation of less mellifluous sounds..."
个体化（过程）；成为独特的个体的过程
"The stakes are clear: the further individuation of the poet (a person coming to be herself and know herself through the practice of poetry)..."
平息；减轻（痛苦、焦虑等不愉快的感觉）
"But then our maladies are assuaged by the elements themselves, our true and lasting progenitors:"
无法解脱的；无法分离的
"Must we accept that suffering is inextricable from joy, or that it confers benefits like wisdom?"
（比喻）可以接受的；合意的；适合心意的（原意：美味的）
"...the junkman forces the poet to consider the accommodation of less mellifluous sounds and less palatable recyclings:"