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脾气暴躁、爱发牢骚的叙述者
"Famous for his cranky narrators and long sentences, Thomas Bernhard is a genius at writing obsessive narrators: misanthropes who will never let anything go."
只关注自身事务或感受的，自私自利的
"As the guiding consciousness of a narrative, the first-person voice is a remarkably flexible instrument: narrators range from the selfless to the self-absorbed, from the avoidant to the obsessive, from the wisecracking to the earnest."
（在此语境中）刚戒酒清醒的叙述者
"Michael Deagler’s newly sober narrator, Monk, rages against a newly gentrified Philadelphia and attempts to reconnect with an old flame."
极其清晰的、锐利的洞察力或明晰度
"The pleasure of the story lies in the piercing clarity of Monk’s observations—about Philadelphia, about choosing the right cheesesteak, and about whether it’s possible to start over with a clean slate."
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."
大声抱怨、强烈谴责、愤怒地抨击
"In this story, the narrator is supposed to testify that he saw a murderer on a train but instead spends his time railing against the landscape, the train, his fellow passengers, and ultimately, the problems of existence."
（语言）简短精炼的、（风格）简洁的（常含褒义）
"In this terse, elegant story, a mother is confronted by a teacher about her son’s anger problems at school."
被当面质问、被直面面对（通常是不愉快的问题或指责）
"In this terse, elegant story, a mother is confronted by a teacher about her son’s anger problems at school."
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."
以不同的角度来看待或呈现故事，改变对故事的理解
"With humor and charm, the narrator recounts Ricky Daddy’s misadventures in love, until the narrative begins to shift in ways that cast the story in a different light."
严厉自责、痛骂自己
"But the real anger belongs to the narrator herself, who berates herself for bringing a succession of troubled men into her son’s life."
毫不起眼的存在，不引人注意的在场
"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."
深切渴望，强烈思念
"But a narrator who wants to disappear is still the narrator of his own story, and the story shows us that the chauffeur might yearn for something after all, to deal the cards instead of taking the hand he’s dealt."
刺激、驱使（某人采取行动），促进
"In “Hungry Ricky Daddy,” the narrator tells the story of his friend Ricky Daddy and his love for activist Nabeela, and how falling in love spurs the friend to begin a hunger strike."
憎恨人类、厌恶社交的人，厌世者
"Famous for his cranky narrators and long sentences, Thomas Bernhard is a genius at writing obsessive narrators: misanthropes who will never let anything go."
（心理上）倾向于逃避的，回避型的
"As the guiding consciousness of a narrative, the first-person voice is a remarkably flexible instrument: narrators range from the selfless to the self-absorbed, from the avoidant to the obsessive, from the wisecracking to the earnest."
永远无法偿还贷款的高昂代价（比喻永远无法回报他人的付出）
"As she poignantly observes, “You take nothing for granted when the price of it is etched across the face of the person you love the most, when you are born into a series of debts and know you will never be up to the cost of the loan.”"
不幸的冒险经历，倒霉的遭遇
"With humor and charm, the narrator recounts Ricky Daddy’s misadventures in love, until the narrative begins to shift in ways that cast the story in a different light."
掌控命运而非被动接受既定的结果，变被动为主动
"But a narrator who wants to disappear is still the narrator of his own story, and the story shows us that the chauffeur might yearn for something after all, to deal the cards instead of taking the hand he’s dealt."
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."
叙述中起主导和引导作用的意识主体，即叙事视角的掌控者
"As the guiding consciousness of a narrative, the first-person voice is a remarkably flexible instrument: narrators range from the selfless to the self-absorbed, from the avoidant to the obsessive, from the wisecracking to the earnest."
爱说俏皮话的，喜欢插科打诨的
"As the guiding consciousness of a narrative, the first-person voice is a remarkably flexible instrument: narrators range from the selfless to the self-absorbed, from the avoidant to the obsessive, from the wisecracking to the earnest."
真诚而认真的，诚挚的（不带玩笑或讽刺意味）
"As the guiding consciousness of a narrative, the first-person voice is a remarkably flexible instrument: narrators range from the selfless to the self-absorbed, from the avoidant to the obsessive, from the wisecracking to the earnest."
因关系破裂而疏远的，不再有联系的（尤指家庭成员）
"Danielle Evans’ narrator is observant, warm, and determined to reunite her mother with her estranged family during a tour of Alcatraz."
以某人的视角或感知来呈现或传达（信息、故事等）
"When a work of fiction is written in the first person, the story is filtered through the perspective of a single character speaking in the voice of “I,” describing events as they experience them."
以令人心碎的方式，深切而感人地（尤指唤起悲伤或怜悯）
"As she poignantly observes, “You take nothing for granted when the price of it is etched across the face of the person you love the most, when you are born into a series of debts and know you will never be up to the cost of the loan.”"
（在法庭上）作证，提供证词
"In this story, the narrator is supposed to testify that he saw a murderer on a train but instead spends his time railing against the landscape, the train, his fellow passengers, and ultimately, the problems of existence."
白纸一张、全新的开始（从零开始，不背负过去）
"The pleasure of the story lies in the piercing clarity of Monk’s observations—about Philadelphia, about choosing the right cheesesteak, and about whether it’s possible to start over with a clean slate."
执着于每件事，不肯释怀或放弃任何细节
"Famous for his cranky narrators and long sentences, Thomas Bernhard is a genius at writing obsessive narrators: misanthropes who will never let anything go."
深深地刻在脸上（比喻岁月的痕迹或情感的代价以可见的方式显现）
"As she poignantly observes, “You take nothing for granted when the price of it is etched across the face of the person you love the most, when you are born into a series of debts and know you will never be up to the cost of the loan.”"
践踏，侵犯（尤指权利）
"Liberals can articulate their values without trampling on rights."
公开谴责，强烈批评
"Protecting formal freedoms while neglecting the enabling conditions for development produces the hollowness that the post-liberals are correct to decry."
傲慢，自大（尤其指因过度自信而招致毁灭）
"but the post-liberals have a fundamental hubris—a belief that the forms of human flourishing are known"
僵化成一个固定模式/样板
"That is how an orientation hardens into a template."
环境，生态系统（指观念、制度相互依存的状态）
"With this more muscular conception in mind, liberals should feel empowered to attend to the ecology of liberalism directly."
（因缺乏发展条件而）萎靡不振，失去活力
"Without those conditions being met, people, even in conditions of material comfort, languish."
维度，坐标轴（指分析或发展的维度）
"The dimensions-and-forms distinction identifies the axes along which human lives develop or fail to develop."
明确有力地表达（观点、感受）
"Liberals can articulate their values without trampling on rights."
直率地，坦诚地
"a more muscular liberalism may be called for—one that speaks up and claims what it is, or at the very least forthrightly articulates its vision"
既定的，已有的（指知识或利益）
"That vested knowledge is at least some sort of a guide."
强健的，强有力的（指意识形态或政策，非指身体）
"a more muscular liberalism may be called for—one that speaks up and claims what it is"
有迷惑性的，看似诱人实则不然的
"That beguiling silence takes one only so far, however."
（英国君主或其配偶的）私用金，内帑
"The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort: The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Braganza edited by Maria Hayward."
迂腐，卖弄学问；吹毛求疵
"On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser."
自以为无所不知的人，万事通（常带贬义）
"On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser."
战友，袍泽（引申义：为共同目标而奋斗的同志）
"Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism 1933-43 by Andy Friend."
詹姆斯党主义（指1688年光荣革命后，支持流亡的斯图亚特王室后裔詹姆斯二世及其后代复辟英国王位的政治运动）
"Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond by Allan I. MacInnes."
（政治上的）任命权，恩惠的授予；赞助，资助（尤其指贵族对艺术家、学者的支持）
"Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735: Religion, Political Culture and Patronage edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael C. Questier."
一次性事件，偶发事件
"Lima stretched the liquid again and again to prove that the unexpected crack wasn’t a one-off."