Vocabulary

核心；精髓（可发展的基本种子）

"In the short story that became the kernel of Bitter Christmas, written in 2003 and published in his first collection of short fiction, which came out last year, Almodóvar sums it up himself: ‘Migraines and panic do not make for interesting cinema because they’re not linked to action, a character suffering from them does so passively.’"

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."

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?"

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."

避免，排除，消除（困难、危险等）。

"They replaced the dialectical complexity that had constituted history with an essential absoluteness – be it duty, honor, or even love toward an idealized place. The very notion of contingency, of dialogue, even obviation of dialectics marked an obsessional response to the seemingly eternal compromise of the political in Italy."

瞌睡的；想睡的；半睡半醒的；(地方)令人昏昏欲睡的,死气沉沉的。

"Removed from the more somnolent parochial certainties of Racalmuto, and from the dialectical straitjacket of Fascism..."

（修辞）假省笔法；忽略法。只声明省略或不去说某事，但实则已达到凸显或使人注意该事的目的。

"The translation may render the line less explicitly menacing, but it works instead through paralipsis."

使习惯于（不愉快的事物）；使适应。

"The constant presence of violence and the succession of murders in these cases do not create cynicism so much as inuring the writer..."

语法错误；失礼；失态。

"This solecism, however, would not solve the case."

隔代遗传的；返祖的；原始的，本能的。

"What he understood to be specifically the mafia was less a manifestation of a criminal secret society than of a 'false consciousness' – a perversion of social relations deeply, if not atavistic, embedded in the struggle for existence."

一系列相互关联或互为因果的事物；连锁。

"And yet, a concatenation of blunders was to follow."

教区的；狭隘的，地方观念的，目光短浅的。

"The parochial, provincial spirit that he sought to escape was not simply the mafia..."

轻信；易受骗的性质或状态。

"However, in this case, his actions were predicated neither on evidence nor reason but rather on fear and the credulousness that he had long attributed to others."

做作；假装；装模作样；故意显示。

"He could be acerbic, harsh even, but this was not without a sense of profound ethical commitment, and without the least affectation."

难以理解的，高深莫测的；不可捉摸的。

"He stands poised, wearing a floral headpiece and delicately holding a Yoruba mask painted in red and black stripes; there is a fluidity to the gesture – he seems either to be taking it off or putting it on – but his eyes are lowered, their expression inscrutable."

挤作一团的，蜷缩着的。

"Two charcoal drawings – one of four women and one of four men huddled in conversation – invite deliberation."

仔细考量，深思熟虑；评议。

"Two charcoal drawings – one of four women and one of four men huddled in conversation – invite deliberation."

连贯的，有条理的，合乎逻辑的；（论点或观念）一致的。

"Pan-Africanism wasn’t coherent."

镇压，压制（通常由权力机构进行）。

"Other works, such as the two paintings by Iba N’Diaye of a woman screaming, take on the violence and repression with which the movement was often met."

强调的，有力的，语气强烈的。

"Project a Black Planet ends on an emphatic note."

诡辩，狡猾的欺骗手段，诈术。

"The two friends get into an argument over what colour the strange figure was wearing; only when they come to blows does Eshu reappear to reveal his chicanery."

在此上下文中指（图像）模糊的，不清晰的。

"The unsettling extends to the character of the work itself: the print is slightly fuzzy and there are large grey and white marks at the bottom – aspects of the gum bichromate process used to print the negative and which give it the quality of a painting."

受限制的，被约束的。

"Dread Scott’s All-African People’s Community Passport (2024) imagines a world where the movement of people of African descent is no longer constrained by borders."

宇航员，航天员。

"Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar’s painting of two people dressed as astronauts, completed not long after the Egyptian revolution of 1952, claims outer space as the domain of the newly liberated nations of Africa."

清漆，罩光漆（用来给表面形成硬而透明的保护膜）。

"Composition looks like a painting, but in fact Melehi used découpage, cutting out pieces of colourful cellulose fibre, gluing them onto a panel and sealing them with varnish to create a flat surface."

（恶作剧般引发的）兴奋感，煽情，挑逗。

"But things aren’t so straightforward. Is the figure emerging from or entering the large black rubber sack? And is this a scene of desperation or titillation?"

开创，倡导（作为动词使用）。

"In an essay published in the Journal of Black Studies in 1980, Nascimento pioneered the notion of quilombismo, ‘an Afro-Brazilian political alternative’, which drew inspiration from the maroon communities of escaped or freed enslaved people."

反抗，蔑视，违抗。

"Quilombismo was a process of constant ‘revitalisation and remodernisation’ as well as a collective project in defiance of injustice and exploitation."

躺卧的，斜倚的。

"Claudette Johnson’s seemingly unfinished Figure with Raised Arms (2017) shows a man reclining with his hands folded behind his neck."

在此上下文中指（月亮）刺眼的、强烈的光芒。

"His homage to Patrice Lumumba, Funeral and the Crescent from 1963 (reproduced in the catalogue but not on display at the Barbican), shows a tiny, almost skeletal, Lumumba carried aloft by a group of emaciated mourners under the glare of a bloody crescent moon."

蝶古巴特（一种装饰艺术，将剪下的纸或布料贴于物品表面并涂上清漆）。

"Composition looks like a painting, but in fact Melehi used découpage, cutting out pieces of colourful cellulose fibre, gluing them onto a panel and sealing them with varnish to create a flat surface."

在此上下文中指（观念，预期）被颠覆，翻转。

"The distinction between modernity and indigeneity is upended again and again throughout the exhibition."

无法克服的，难以逾越的。

"While the division between North and sub-Saharan Africa can seem insurmountable (due in part to racism faced by Black migrants in parts of the Maghreb), El-Salahi’s work is a reminder that Arab and African nationalism were once part of a shared anti-colonial politics."

致敬，表示敬意的事物或行为。

"His homage to Patrice Lumumba, Funeral and the Crescent from 1963 (reproduced in the catalogue but not on display at the Barbican), shows a tiny, almost skeletal, Lumumba carried aloft by a group of emaciated mourners under the glare of a bloody crescent moon."

在此上下文中指（某物）无法被归类或解释，抗拒（分类）。

"The work of Ibrahim El-Salahi defies categorisation as either Arab or African, and makes use of motifs from European, Islamic, African and Arab art."

（艺术品中的）图案，花样，主题元素。

"The work of Ibrahim El-Salahi defies categorisation as either Arab or African, and makes use of motifs from European, Islamic, African and Arab art."

在此上下文中指（人）疏离的，脱离（社区）的。

"It was inspired by Agostinho Neto’s description, in the poem ‘Mussunda Amigo’, of an anti-colonial Angolan intellectual who, through writing in Portuguese, slowly becomes detached from his community."

消瘦的，憔悴的（通常因疾病或饥饿导致）。

"His homage to Patrice Lumumba, Funeral and the Crescent from 1963 (reproduced in the catalogue but not on display at the Barbican), shows a tiny, almost skeletal, Lumumba carried aloft by a group of emaciated mourners under the glare of a bloody crescent moon."

非常有趣的，引人入胜的，激起好奇心的。

"The photographs borrowed from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago are among the most intriguing works on display."

单色的，仅用一种颜色的（常指黑白的）。

"The composition is closely cropped: the top of the man’s head and his elbows are cut off by the frame and his colourful checked shirt dominates the canvas (as in many of Johnson’s works, the figure remains monochrome)."

小心翼翼的，警惕的，多疑的。

"By contrast, Self-Study in Blue Oil Pastel (2024), composed of energetic blue lines, shows Johnson sitting but wary, ready to spring into movement at any moment."

在此上下文中指（文字）褪色的，已模糊不清的。

"look again, however, and the outlines of land and sea appear instead to be the effects of fire and water on an ancient document whose faded calligraphic type is still almost legible."

（尤指不愉快事件的）后果，余波。

"Sanlé Sory’s photos of Burkinabé youth capture the sense of possibility in the aftermath of independence."

在此上下文中指（承载文本信息的人造）物品或展品。

"Early reviews of the exhibition’s London iteration (it has previously been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) complained about its use of ‘dreary academic theory’, the amount of accompanying text and the many textual artefacts."

在此上下文中指展览的某一‘版本’或‘展出轮次’。

"Early reviews of the exhibition’s London iteration (it has previously been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) complained about its use of ‘dreary academic theory’, the amount of accompanying text and the many textual artefacts."

在此上下文中指（学术理论）沉闷乏味的，令人厌倦的。

"Early reviews of the exhibition’s London iteration (it has previously been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) complained about its use of ‘dreary academic theory’, the amount of accompanying text and the many textual artefacts."