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（手部）灵巧的，敏捷熟练的
"After all, my left hand is more dexterous than my right because of the more richly interconnected neurons that map to it, on the right side of my motor cortex."
（方向、轨迹或趋势的）突然偏移、转向
"However, it doesn't account for why the right side wins nine times out of 10, or why there is the occasional veer to left."
（生物医学语境下）为某种特定功能而'搭建'或'装配'（神经回路/生理结构）
"This asymmetric expression could rig up motor circuitry, such as an abundance of neurons with long, signal-carrying fibers, that leads to more involuntary movement on one side than the other."
被污名化的，被贴上负面社会标签的
"I decided to spend a semester in Ghana, unaware that left-handedness is still stigmatized across much of Africa."
差异、不一致、矛盾（在应该一致或可比较的事物之间出现的系统差别）
"Over many rounds of cell division, the imbalance could create a discrepancy between the left and right sides of the developing spinal cord."
双足行走的、两足运动的
"We had to stand upright before we could start deploying our hands asymmetrically, and it was more efficient for our growing brains to distribute key functions to different sides, only devoting resources for fine motor skills to one hand (while remaining plastic enough to wire up the other hand if necessary)."
（织物等）被优雅地披挂、垂落在（某个身体部位上）
"When my Twi language instructor, Professor Kofi Agyekum, demonstrated how ceremonial robes are draped around the left shoulder and arm, leaving a chief's right arm bare and free, I asked what happens if the chief is left-handed."
自鸣得意的，沾沾自喜的（带着一种优越感）
"It grants entry into a smug little club, whose members — 10% of the human population — carry the secret knowledge that we are overrepresented among U.S. presidents, famous artists and musicians, and top athletes."
（在某个群体或统计中）占比超过其人口比例，比例过高
"It grants entry into a smug little club, whose members — 10% of the human population — carry the secret knowledge that we are overrepresented among U.S. presidents, famous artists and musicians, and top athletes."
（在此处作形容词）扩散的、分布广泛的、不集中的
"The genetic connection is more diffuse."
微弱的证据，少量的证据（指证据不够充分、可靠，几乎站不住脚）
"There’s some slender evidence that he might have suffered a neurological episode, but in his most recent speeches he is voluble and pugnacious and speaks without evident difficulty."
即兴地，未经准备地（指演讲或发言时不用讲稿或笔记）
"Trump continues to interact with the press and to speak off the cuff."
健谈且好斗的（形容一个人说话滔滔不绝、口若悬河，同时又充满攻击性和好辩的劲头）
"There’s some slender evidence that he might have suffered a neurological episode, but in his most recent speeches he is voluble and pugnacious and speaks without evident difficulty."
将其候选资格/竞选活动完全建立在……之上（就像门依赖合页一样，竞选的核心支柱）
"In 2015 and 2016, when first running for the presidency, Trump, more than anything else, hinged his candidacy on vitality—he was in his 70s but made over 300 rally appearances."
大片（区域）；长条（布或土地）；这里喻指‘大段的时间’
"If, for long swathes of his term, Joe Biden made no public appearances at all, spoke only when reading from a teleprompter, and kept his appearances to short and scripted exchanges, Trump continues to interact with the press and to speak off the cuff."
衰老的，老朽的（指身体或智力机能严重衰退）
"He isn’t as decrepit as Democrats pretend."
屈服于，抵挡不住（某种强大的力量，如诱惑、疾病、压力）；这里特指‘因衰老而倒下/未能幸免’
"If our last president succumbed to age while in office, there’s some reason to believe that Donald Trump may not be fully with it all the way through his term."
虚构，杜撰（尤其指因记忆障碍或认知问题，无意中用虚假的记忆来填补空白，而非故意撒谎）
"An episode from last year in which Trump confabulated a wholly imaginary relationship between his uncle and Ted Kaczynski, as well as a conversation between Trump and his uncle, has been cited by several outlets as evidence of Trump losing his marbles, but that somehow seems more par for the course for him..."
沉着的，稳重的，安静的（形容人举止克制、不慌不忙，有时带贬义指‘沉闷的’）
"But Trump’s demeanor in the debates was clearly calculated—as commentators acknowledged, he appeared “pugilistic” in contrast to the far more sedate Clinton and Biden."
风向标，领头羊（指能预示某种趋势或发展的指标性事物或人）
"The Hill, a bellwether of Washington political opinion, ran a piece headlined “Trump’s mental decline is unavoidable—so what now?”"
煽动性的，纵火般的（指言论、行为等旨在引起愤怒、冲突或暴力）
"What’s striking in all of these speeches—maybe Davos in particular—is the way that Trump is still highly incendiary, railing against environmentalism and the European Union and agitating for the United States to take Greenland (unless maybe it’s Iceland) without having any particular conviction in his voice."
意料之中的，没什么特别的（指某种不尽如人意的情况是典型的、正常的）
"...but that somehow seems more par for the course for him—there was something that he liked about the story..."
令人想起，类似于（指某事让人联想到另一件事）
"The video of his state visit to Japan in October, when he several times had to be guided by Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, was reminiscent of moments when Biden wandered aimlessly across a stage and the clip was widely interpreted as Trump losing it in public."
精华，本质（通过蒸馏过程去除杂质后得到的核心、纯粹的部分）
"It’s possible to read that not just as routine but as age—with age, people tend to become the purest distillations of their personalities, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if the pure distillation of Trump turns out to be showmanship."
由年长女性管理者监督的（'matron' 指女监护人/主管）
"The matron-supervised playground acted as a nursery, day care center, and “lost children” collection point for the over 1,000 kids who misplaced their parents over the run of the fair."
遗失；放错地方（此处指孩子们与父母走散）
"The matron-supervised playground acted as a … “lost children” collection point for the over 1,000 kids who misplaced their parents over the run of the fair."
滋生源；培养者（此处指沙盒被视作疾病和寄生虫的滋生地，带强烈负面色彩）
"Once celebrated as sites of creative play, sandboxes came to be “considered a breeder of disease and infestation.”"
使……出名；使……受到关注（此处指使沙盒被世界所知）
"The apotheosis of the sandbox was probably its inclusion in the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, which helped put sandboxes on the world’s map."
典范；极致；最高点（此处指沙盒在1904年世界博览会上的登峰造极）
"The apotheosis of the sandbox was probably its inclusion in the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, which helped put sandboxes on the world’s map."
（害虫/虫害）横行；侵扰（此处指沙盒中可能出现的寄生虫）
"Once celebrated as sites of creative play, sandboxes came to be “considered a breeder of disease and infestation.”"
同僚间的互助合作精神；同事关系中的平等与尊重
"The sandbox was a space where “an attitude of respect, collegiality and participation prevailed, in a rare place with universal appeal.”"
默认的；心照不宣的（此处指不需要明确解释便能理解的、隐含的知识）
"Zinguer calls sand play “'tacit' knowledge, requiring no explanation or special understanding.”"
普遍存在；盛行（此处指某种态度在特定空间中占据主导地位）
"The sandbox was a space where “an attitude of respect, collegiality and participation prevailed..."
父权制的；男性主导的（此处指19世纪学术界由男性掌握话语权的社会结构）
"Disregarding the patriarchal voice of academia, Boston already had 17 MEHA-run playgrounds with sandboxes..."
起关键作用的；有帮助的（此处指在推动沙盘游戏建立中扮演重要角色）
"Zakrzewska was instrumental in establishing sand play in Boston."
附属物；卫星式的配套部分（此处指 Charlesbank 作为翡翠项链公园链中的附属公园）
"This was Charlesbank, which opened in 1891 and was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as a satellite to his Emerald Necklace chain of parks in Boston and Brookline."
和……一样古老；历史悠久，与……同时出现
"Playing in the sand is probably as old as the first humanoids to wander onto a beach."
早期人类或类人生物（此处指进化史上接近人类的原始生物）
"Playing in the sand is probably as old as the first humanoids to wander onto a beach."
分支；衍生物（此处指从母组织派生出的附属机构）
"Alongside the Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Association (MEHA), an offshoot of the Boston Woman’s Education Association..."
最终发展为；以……达到顶点
"From there it moved outdoors, to sand piles, sand hills, and sand gardens, culminating in the readily-contained sandbox, which could be set up anywhere."
封闭式体育馆；室内运动场（原文 'gymnasia' 是 'gymnasium' 的复数）
"It also hosted a women’s and men’s open-air gymnasia, with a running track around the men’s gymnasium, a design that would prove highly influential."
创新；新事物（此处指沙盘作为教育工具的发明）
"But bringing sand indoors for children to play with appears to have been an innovation of the nineteenth-century German kindergarten movement."
玩得非常开心；尽情享受
"...witnessed children having a whale of a time on the sand hills in Berlin’s parks."
易于收纳/限制的；方便围合的
"...culminating in the readily-contained sandbox, which could be set up anywhere."
前身；先驱（此处指沙盒是游乐场的直接前身）
"The sandbox, considered to be the direct precursor of the play-ground, built communities through play."
捐助者；赞助人（此处指资助儿童公益事业的女慈善家）
"Women doctors, benefactors, women educators, and mothers took part in this experiment to claim a public space for working mothers and children in city life."
在人群中或社交场合中容易被忽视，仿佛不存在一样
"In Catherine Niu’s “Chauffeur,” a driver reflects on his childhood, his luck at cards, and the quiet rules of his profession, taking pride in himself as a nondescript presence who tends to disappear in rooms."
令人惊讶的自我认识时刻，令人震撼的醒悟瞬间
"Monk offers stunning moments of self-insight, or, more often, self-laceration: “I was a man at odds with his surroundings."
自我鞭挞、自我批判（极其严厉的精神攻击）
"Monk offers stunning moments of self-insight, or, more often, self-laceration: “I was a man at odds with his surroundings."
一连串的、接连不断的（通常指类似的人或事物）
"But the real anger belongs to the narrator herself, who berates herself for bringing a succession of troubled men into her son’s life."