Vocabulary

正统的、主流的（此处指哲学界主流接受的'真理条件'立场）

"The orthodox response was to keep the truth and give up the proof."

（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."

（喻）恶毒的、刻毒的；原指病毒性强

"When he returned to the manuscript several years later, a previously suppressed fragment of Frege's Nachlass (ie, his literary estate) had surfaced, revealing the philosopher as a 'virulent racist' with 'extreme Right-wing political opinions'."

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?"

（思想、理论的）清晰表述、系统阐明

"Taking Principia Mathematica as the articulation of mathematics within logic, Gödel showed that there were true mathematical statements that cannot be proved using the resources of Principia Mathematica alone."

（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."

教条主义的沉睡；指康德在读到休谟之前，未经批判地接受理性可以认识一切绝对真理的迷梦状态

"When Kant remembered a book by David Hume he'd read years earlier, he was woken from what he called his 'dogmatic slumber'."

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."

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."

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'."

全体的、全体出席的；plenary address 指大会全体会议上的演讲

"In the plenary addresses for the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, Hilbert had set out 23 problems that would define the next century of the subject."

鄙视、蔑视

"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."

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."

（喻）管道系统；此处比喻数学在科学中只'输送'信息而不'生产'信息的功能

"The function of mathematics is to extract information from scientific claims: it carries what is already there without adding anything, the way plumbing moves water without supplying any."

满不在乎的、无忧无虑的（此处指那些女孩对主流规范毫不在意、不以为然的散漫态度）

"She's not mesmerised by the guru figure, Russell, so much as by his harem – the long-haired, slightly scuzzy, dumpster-diving, shoplifting, insouciant 'girls'."

客观对应物（T.S.艾略特提出的文学批评术语，指用具体物象或情境来唤起特定情感的艺术手法）

"Inevitably, the mobile phone plays a large supporting role in both books. It's the perfect objective correlative for the difficulty of navigating a hostile world with failing instincts and the temptation to offload the unbearable weight of our conscience."

（动词）完美衔接、丝丝入扣地吻合（此处指词语与经验之间的完美契合）

"Such moments are a reminder of the singularity of experience, or the perfect dovetailing of word and experience, unavailable to machines and to brains that lapse into mimicry of machines."

短途旅行、远足（此处指意识在每一刻可以进行的无数“精神出游”，带有随意游荡的意味）

"Now there were a million mental jaunts available to you in every moment, consciousness in a constant state of fracture, and even before he'd actually lost his mind, he'd lost his mind; everyone had."

蜂巢思维、群体意识（此处指互联网时代人们共享的、去个性化的集体心理状态）

"How does David's dementia resemble our internet-addled, paranoid hive mind?"

契诃夫式的（此处特指契诃夫作品中那种不动声色的客观、对人物不偏不倚的同情与克制）

"Her Chekhovian neutrality is unerring in 'What Can You Do with a General', in which a man called John gives his children DNA kits for Christmas."

（复杂的）后果、衍生的影响（此处指从遗忘在家庭生命周期中的作用这一角度来审视小说的层层含义）

"Forgetting serves a crucial function in the life cycle of any family, and that's one level on which to consider Switzy's ramifications."

不言而喻的道理、老生常谈（此处用于反问：子女只记得成长中的负面、父母只记得美好，这是否只是一句陈词滥调）

"Is it a truism that children dwell mostly on the negative in their upbringing, while parents remember only the good?"

令人毛骨悚然的、惊险刺激的（此处指他学生时代参与的一场出了岔子的恶作剧）

"Weighing most heavily on his conscience is his involvement in a hair-raising prank that went wrong in his final year of school."

无足轻重的人、面目模糊者（此处指他的女儿在小说中近乎透明、缺乏个性，如同一个符号）

"His daughter is a cipher."

描绘、刻画（此处指作者精细地勾勒出同性社交与同性恋之间模糊的边界）

"Cline limns the hazy borderline between homosociality and homosexuality."

肮脏邋遢的、不修边幅的（在此语境中形容曼森家族女孩们外表凌乱、不洁却又有种散漫的吸引力）

"She's not mesmerised by the guru figure, Russell, so much as by his harem – the long-haired, slightly scuzzy, dumpster-diving, shoplifting, insouciant 'girls'."

普通人、循规蹈矩的主流人士（此处指邪教成员眼中那些奉行常规生活准则的普通人）

"The unwashed cultists she falls in with appear liberated by contrast: they greet all normie directives with derisive laughter."

滑稽的、略带古怪幽默的（此处指痴呆主人公偶尔表现出的冷面诙谐，把 Anna Gould 私下叫作 Ghoul）

"Occasionally he is droll: the clinical liaison is named Anna Gould, whom he privately calls Ghoul."

习惯性小动作、口头禅（此处指他反复把助手和孙子都称作 'the boy' 这一不自觉的习惯，后来成为线索）

"David is much more attentive to members of his own gender (he is apt to call his thirty-something assistant, as well as his grandson, 'the boy', a tic that becomes a clue) and has not refused the occasional intimate encounter."

同性社交（此处指男性之间非性关系的、但情感紧密的社会联结，与同性恋形成对照）

"Cline limns the hazy borderline between homosociality and homosexuality."

外在的装饰、排场（此处指女性气质与富裕生活的种种外在符号与仪式）

"The Guest is more original than The Girls – more mocking towards the trappings of femininity and affluence – and more fun to read."

火山碎屑流（一种高速高温的火山喷发物，此处用作比喻，形容后果层层累积、迅猛而毁灭性地爆发）

"The consequences of her actions pile up like a pyroclastic cloud."

行骗、诈取（此处指靠小骗术和不正当手段在人群中周旋牟利）

"How will Alex find shelter for five days until she can ambush Simon at the Labor Day party he's hosting? By grifting her way through a series of encounters with service workers and kids, insinuating herself, looking for marks, exercising her wiles and breaking things, until a final reckoning presents itself."

（习语）尽管不必细说，只消说……就够了（用于暗示某事已足够说明问题，无需详述）

"I won't spoil it here, but suffice it to say it doesn't cater to middlebrow expectations and not everyone admired it."

偷偷摸摸、鬼鬼祟祟（此处指她追逐性经验时那种隐秘、不可告人的方式）

"And compared to the furtiveness with which she's pursued sexual experiences, the blunt push of her head towards Russell's lap, while not romantic, seems instructional."

神话体系、传说母题（此处指加州女性“走向毁灭”这一反复出现的文化叙事）

"A well-adjusted California girl, she nevertheless called to mind the mythos of all the women who met their doom there."

（因小事而引起的）喧闹、骚动、口角（此处指围绕《The Guest》结局所引发的争议与议论）

"Since the kerfuffle over The Guest, Cline has been thinking about endings."

轻率的、不够严肃的（此处指这个绰号对瑞士这一严肃场所带有轻慢、戏谑的口吻）

"The title is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold."

虚无、空无（此处指安乐死诊所那种制度化、无菌式的空无感）

"And yet those pristine spaces end up merging seamlessly with the institutional nihility of the euthanasia clinic."

顺从、殷勤（此处指他对手机小游戏机械式反馈的麻木顺服）

"He plays endless games of solitaire on his phone, registering the haptic clicks with dumb complaisance."

（热浪）猛烈的、灼人的；（如鞭打般）强烈的

"The pair were constantly on the move, spending many hours each day in the saddle, often in belting heat."

（光线）朦胧的、晦暗的，如同黄昏或黎明时分的微光

"The lighting is crepuscular; tall grass stems stripe the foreground; veined, juicy-looking leaves curtain off the top-right corner."

嬉戏、欢闹；（轻快地）蹦跳玩耍

"The tiny, mischievous figures that frolic in an arch around Titania's bower seem like trespassers from another painting, possibly one of Bosch's raucous scenes."

（声音）刺耳的、喧闹的；粗野嘈杂的

"The tiny, mischievous figures that frolic in an arch around Titania's bower seem like trespassers from another painting, possibly one of Bosch's raucous scenes."

被覆盖、遮蔽的（如裹尸布般）；笼罩的、隐匿的

"while behind her lurks Oberon, so shrouded in shadow, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, that he is hardly visible at all."