Vocabulary

（雇佣关系中）被长期供养的仆从/随从

"Dora treated her husband like a paid retainer, but was devoted to her son."

（动词，俚语）赖账、故意不付钱给某人

"He showed him how to court politicians and promote himself in the tabloids, to bury his adversaries in litigation, and to stiff (non-Mafia) contractors and tradesmen."

懒散的、好逸恶劳的（常含不愿付出努力但不含恶意的意味）

"He was often indolent, but – as he would all his life – could fall back on his extraordinary memory, especially for documents."

熏蒸消毒、用烟熏杀虫（此处比喻对餐具的'消毒'）

"Afterwards Trump complained about having to ‘spend a fortune to fumigate all the dishes and silverware’."

（美国）精英老牌律所的、属于上层建制派的

"By his thirties, Cohn had become the counsellor of choice for New York mafia families (all of them), who were shunned by the white-shoe firms."

巧妙而带有心机的、狡黠的

"In 1974, Cohn negotiated what Bird characterises as an extremely ‘artful’ deal for Gotti."

（使船）自沉、凿沉；引申为蓄意毁坏

"Bird shows that Cohn was almost certainly responsible for the death by drowning of a crewman aboard his yacht Defiance, which he had arranged to have scuttled for the insurance money."

产生、引发（某种情绪或状态）

"‘It was incredible, the power the man had. It was power engendered by fear of him and by weakness on the part of his opponents.’"

蜥蜴般的、像爬行动物的

"In the footage, Cohn is slight and faintly saurian, with a habit of flicking his tongue."

少年拉斯普京（喻指以神秘操控力在权力核心暗织影响的年轻随从）

"Michael Straight of the New Republic called him ‘the boy Rasputin’ and the name stuck."

掠夺、蹂躏、破坏行为（复数常指一连串的劫掠）

"Then there are all the lesser schemes and depredations."

不可剥夺的、无法被推翻的（此处指让人感到地位/权力绝对稳固）

"No one was better at making him feel indefeasible."

渴望、思念（带有强烈情感和不可得的意味）

"Roy Cohn has been dead for forty years, but Donald Trump still yearns for him, his first lawyer and his fiercest."

常年地、持续不断地（往往带有一再重复却从未实现的意味）

"According to Adams, Cohn perennially told Donald he could be president."

顿悟、醍醐灌顶式的觉醒时刻

"Then: an ‘epiphany’."

陵墓、宏伟的墓室

"Bird – working with his wife, Susan Goldmark – now regards Cohn as ‘the ghoul of our nightmares’, haunting the White House from his Queens mausoleum."

讥诮的、轻蔑冷笑的

"…the great scourge of communism, blustering, sweaty, sneery, sometimes appearing the worse for drink."

（遗嘱的）附签、补遗条款

"When a client was in a ‘vegetative state and dying’, Cohn had him sign a new codicil to his will naming Cohn as an executor and trustee."

食尸鬼；此处喻指从死亡与恐怖中攫取能量的阴魂般存在

"Bird – working with his wife, Susan Goldmark – now regards Cohn as ‘the ghoul of our nightmares’, haunting the White House from his Queens mausoleum."

植物人状态（医学上指意识丧失但保留基本生命体征的状态）

"When a client was in a ‘vegetative state and dying’, Cohn had him sign a new codicil to his will naming Cohn as an executor and trustee."

愚蠢、荒诞不经（此处指政治上的愚蠢决策与集体疯狂）

"His ‘personal immorality planted the seeds of America’s descent into the political folly of the 21st century.’"

虚张声势的、咆哮恫吓的（声势大而底气不足）

"The subcommittee had operated almost entirely behind closed doors; now, at last, there he was, the great scourge of communism, blustering, sweaty, sneery, sometimes appearing the worse for drink."

整套东西、整个事情（此处指整个听证会/事件）

"Only much later, by the time he wrote his memoir, did he seem to grasp that ‘the real purpose of the whole shebang’ hadn’t been about Schine at all; it was a pretext ‘to wipe out McCarthy’."

拉高出货（金融欺诈：人为抬高股价后抛售获利）

"He may have swindled McCarthy himself on a pump and dump uranium stock scheme."

成年、成长定型（此处指在特定历史环境中形成人格与世界观）

"He was born in 1927, and though he came of age during the Depression, the Cohns lived in splendour on Park Avenue."

（贬义）正式注册的、持证的核心成员（尤指共产党党员）

"It was 1952, two years after McCarthy had dazzled the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, with his claim that more than two hundred ‘card-carrying’ communists had infiltrated the State Department."

（新闻业）一针见血、极具冲击力的引语

"He had a particular gift for supplying killer quotes just before deadline (not enough time to verify, but too thrilling to ignore)."

冲锋队（纳粹德国的准军事组织）；喻指如纳粹冲锋队般粗暴的执法者

"The two men railed against the government’s ‘Gestapo-like’ tactics, and said that the FBI had descended on the Trump offices like ‘stormtroopers’."

钻入、潜伏（像穴居动物一样深入隐藏）

"In the process he came to believe – or always said he did – that a Soviet espionage network had burrowed inside the American government, with ‘Kremlin cells strategically placed in the most sensitive federal departments’."

满嘴脏话的、言语粗鄙的

"His daughter Dora, Roy’s mother, would be remembered by various relatives as ‘the ugliest girl in the Bronx’, ‘mean, vicious, ugly and foul-mouthed’."

（法律）单方面的、仅一方参与的

"He acknowledged that it had been improper to speak to a judge ex parte, but ‘it was normal’ in those days."

疑虑、不安（对某事可能出错的内在担忧）

"Far from having misgivings, he said that he ‘would have pulled the lever’ himself."

物自体；德语原词，康德用以指不依赖任何认知条件而独立存在的自在之物

"We can know the world only as it appears to our minds, and that is where our science sits; the noumenal world – the Ding an sich (the 'thing-in-itself') – simply lies beyond our reach."

为……提供支撑、担保；此处指数学为科学奠定基础、提供正当性

"If mathematics were only such unpacking, how could it underwrite the sciences?"

禁止、取缔；引文中希尔伯特原话意为'禁止拳击手使用拳头'

"That was controversial: to strip the mathematician of that assumption, Hilbert retorted, would be like 'proscribing … to the boxer the use of his fists'."

本体界的；康德哲学术语，指独立于我们感知与认知结构、'物自体'所居的领域，与 phenomenon（现象界）相对

"We can know the world only as it appears to our minds, and that is where our science sits; the noumenal world – the Ding an sich (the 'thing-in-itself') – simply lies beyond our reach."

宏伟建筑；（喻）庞大的理论体系、思想大厦

"In place of Frege's edifice, Russell set out to build his own, together with his colleague Alfred North Whitehead."

逻辑实证主义；维也纳学派的核心纲领，主张命题只有能被逻辑分析或经验证实才有意义

"The Tractatus became the manifesto of a group of philosophers in Vienna including Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath, who called their position logical positivism."

心理主义；主张逻辑与数学规律可还原为心理事实的学说，为弗雷格所激烈反对

"Second, the realm is posited chiefly to spare us two unwelcome alternatives – psychologism on one side, Brouwer's restrictions on the other."

令人眩晕的；（喻）使人晕眩的、深不可测的（指自我指涉带来的逻辑眩晕）

"The trick at the heart of the proof is to encode statements about the system within the system itself – a move with the same vertiginous quality as Russell's letter to Frege."

被假定、被设定为存在

"Second, the realm is posited chiefly to spare us two unwelcome alternatives – psychologism on one side, Brouwer's restrictions on the other."

（梯子的）横档；此处喻为知识/真理逐级构建的台阶

"Hilbert's words outlive his programme: Wir werden wissen. We shall know. Not because the answers are waiting at the end of a ladder, but because truth goes exactly as far as we have built the rungs."

（本文造词）'世界观'层面相邻的；指看似相邻、实则性质根本不同的领域

"Quantum Wittgenstein: Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don't get at 'truth' – they're nothing but a form of ritual, activity and culture"

被封为爵士

"Dummett died in 2011, having been knighted in 1999 for 'services to philosophy and to racial justice'."

（比喻）束缚被解除；呼应前文希尔伯特'不许拳击手用拳头'的比喻，指布劳威尔的限制被解除

"The boxer's fists were untied."

苦涩的讽刺、令人心痛的悖论

"Once his book was finally published, Dummett recorded the bitter irony, and reflected that he had learned something dark about how a mind he revered could harbour views he despised."