Vocabulary

在形式（结构/技法）上具有创新性的

"“...but most of the artists are formally inventive in some way.”"

（数量或声音的）激增，浪潮般的高涨

"“...dreams as a leitmotif connecting a swell of guitar bands that were heading into new realms of otherworldly bliss...”"

（音乐或文学中的）主导主题，反复出现的核心意象

"“In Still in a Dream, Reynolds identifies dreams as a leitmotif connecting a swell of guitar bands...”"

超脱尘世的，梦幻般的，非现实世界的

"“...that were heading into new realms of otherworldly bliss, lucid daydreaming and primal transgression.”"

极乐，巨大的幸福

"“...that were heading into new realms of otherworldly bliss, lucid daydreaming and primal transgression.”"

有助于…的，有利于…的

"“...but which gave them enough time and space, over several years, to forge a radically new noise. ‘We sat around a lot, sure, but that’s conducive to coming up with ideas’...”"

声音的，音波的（尤其指电子或科技中的声音）

"“Reynolds and his Melody Maker colleagues were desperately seeking sonic innovation, some conceptual breakthrough...”"

原始的，本能的，最根本的

"“...new realms of otherworldly bliss, lucid daydreaming and primal transgression.”"

越轨行为，违反道德或社会规范

"“...that were heading into new realms of otherworldly bliss, lucid daydreaming and primal transgression...”"

自觉地，刻意地（常带不自然感）

"“Reynolds and the other writers at Melody Maker, the self-consciously intellectual rival to the more widely read NME...”"

（比喻）封闭的、自成一体的领域或文化圈

"“...tending to their walled garden of cult musicians and occasionally elevating them to hero status.”"

国库，政府资金

"“...drawing from the same state coffers that supported various ‘dole-rock’ bands at the time.”"

失业救济金支持的摇滚乐（英国俚语，玩世嫉俗的风格）

"“...drawing from the same state coffers that supported various ‘dole-rock’ bands at the time.”"

使滞留，使陷入困境（无依无靠）

"“...and remembers feeling ‘stranded after the countercultural tide had gone out’.”"

枯燥乏味的日常性，平庸

"“...he shared his cohort’s aversion to the ‘encroaching mundanity’ of 1980s Britain...”"

非常脏乱差的，令人不适的

"“...living in conditions that were undeniably grotty – and eventually contributed to drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig’s nervous breakdown...”"

追溯，回顾（过去的事物）

"“...or in some cases harking back to earlier rock music.”"

反主流文化的，对立于主流社会价值观的

"“...stranded after the countercultural tide had gone out.”"

（通过策略）胜过，压倒对手

"“...seeking sonic innovation, some conceptual breakthrough that could finally outmanoeuvre punk’s ‘year zero’ mentality...”"

（比喻）封闭的微型生态圈，与外界隔绝的体系

"“...a self-sustaining terrarium of ‘indie’ culture; a lost world.”"

狂喜，极度兴奋的状态

"“...and the publication of his first book, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, an account of the new sounds of the late 1980s.”"

分叉的，不同的，趋于相异的

"“These groups were musically divergent and geographically dispersed, forming only a loose constellation...”"

去朋克化的，剥离朋克的教条/风格

"“The scene really needed a severe programme of unpunking, if music was ever going to move forward again.”"

放大，放大作用（比喻）

"“...when the weeklies were ‘a machine of magnification’.”"

分散的，散布的

"“These groups were musically divergent and geographically dispersed, forming only a loose constellation...”"

（比喻）星座般的集合，松散关联的组织或群体

"“These groups were musically divergent and geographically dispersed, forming only a loose constellation in the rock underground...”"

（词语或短语的）新造，创新的术语

"“From the pages of the ‘inkies’ a thousand coinages bloomed: miserabilism, cutie, dreampop, oceanic rock, pigfuck...”"

（花朵般）绽放，大量涌现

"“From the pages of the ‘inkies’ a thousand coinages bloomed: miserabilism, cutie, dreampop, oceanic rock, pigfuck...”"

逐渐侵占的，日益蔓延的

"“...he shared his cohort’s aversion to the ‘encroaching mundanity’ of 1980s Britain...”"

节点，连接点

"“The written word was still a crucial node in the analogue network that connected listeners with music...”"

徒劳无益，无意义

"“...heavily creased by Generation X’s crippling irony and feelings of futility.”"

造成严重损害的，使人衰弱的

"“...heavily creased by Generation X’s crippling irony and feelings of futility.”"

渴望而带着伤感的，留恋梦想的

"“Reynolds remembers 1985 simply as the ‘Bad Music Era’, characterised by overly wistful indie pop...”"

极小的；在上下文中指蜗牛的体型非常小

"The snail’s diminutive size, however, conceals a massive secret."

腹足类软体动物；此处指蜗牛这类生物

"Few people visiting New Zealand’s Lake Alexandrina even notice the tiny gastropods littering the shores."

紧绷、矛盾；这里指不稳定性与创新性之间的概念张力

"Potamopyrgus antipodarum sits at the heart of that tension between instability and innovation."

散落、遍布；此处指蜗牛壳在岸边到处都是

"Few people visiting New Zealand’s Lake Alexandrina even notice the tiny gastropods littering the shores."

基因组；生物体全部遗传物质的总和

"Sometime in the recent past, its genome doubled."

拼凑、综合整理；将片段逐步拼接成整体

"When her lab began piecing together the genomes of 30 different sexually reproducing potamo species, they stumbled upon something odd."

染色体；细胞核中携带遗传物质的线状结构

"Instead of having two sets of chromosomes and two copies of every gene, the way most animals do, it has three or four — significantly more genetic material than it ought to have."

灾变、大灾难；剧烈的地质或政治剧变

"Some researchers have noticed a pattern in which full-scale apocalyptic cataclysms, such as the asteroid collision that heralded the end of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, occur around the same time as clusters of genome duplications."

宣告……的到来；作为…出现的预兆

"Some researchers have noticed a pattern in which full-scale apocalyptic cataclysms, such as the asteroid collision that heralded the end of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, occur around the same time as clusters of genome duplications."

反驳；正式的驳斥意见

"However, a 2026 paper on the subject has proved controversial; a formal rebuttal claims that the analysis is flawed."

多岩石的、陡峭的、起伏崎岖的；此处指山峰险峻

"On the shores of Lake Alexandrina, an alpine lake nestled among the craggy peaks of New Zealand’s South Island, most Potamopyrgus antipodarum snails reproduce sexually — the classic egg-meets-sperm."

有缺陷的、有瑕疵的；指分析存在根本性错误

"However, a 2026 paper on the subject has proved controversial; a formal rebuttal claims that the analysis is flawed."