Vocabulary

（英国20世纪中叶）衣着浮夸、靠投机倒把或黑市谋生的混混

"There is vivacity in the scummy – in the film, Robert Stephens is a tremendous spiv, tempting Jo’s mother, played by Dora Bryan, with the promise of crazy paving..."

松软无力的、疲软的；（此处形容形容词本身）苍白乏力、毫无张力

"Ken Russell’s BBC film Shelagh Delaney’s Salford opens with the flaccid adjectives ‘grey, industrial’, before Delaney’s voice comes in and with it transfixing images..."

（衣物等）贴身而勾勒身段的；（人）身姿婀娜、步态柔媚的

"She is brilliantly performed: callous and canny and wounded and slinky in her bottom-hugging cocktail frock."

（本义）嘹亮的铜管号角齐鸣；（喻）隆重的宣告、张扬的开场

"Essence of Delaney: a farewell that sounds like a fanfare. ‘Ta-ra!’"

令人动弹不得地凝神注视的、摄人心魄的

"...before Delaney’s voice comes in and with it transfixing images: a bloke in the market yelling his wares in a pair of dangling glitter earrings..."

在逆境中仍唧唧喳喳地欢唱（形容人物以轻快声调对抗困顿）

"...a still youngish woman trying to scrape by on her looks, chirruping against the odds: ‘Why – because he loves me!’"

谩骂；辱骂性的斥责（此处特指针对Delaney的恶毒攻击性言论）

"Vituperation wasn’t going to knock out her popularity but praise tended to box in her reputation."

把……禁锢在狭小空间内；限制……的活动余地（此处指赞扬反而把她的名声限定在某个窄框里）

"Vituperation wasn’t going to knock out her popularity but praise tended to box in her reputation."

（如用勺子般）一把揽走、匆匆收拢（此处指讣告不加辨析地照搬了通行看法）

"The Los Angeles Times obituary scooped up the received view of her work: ‘kitchen-sink realism’..."

令人极度难受的；（此处）尴尬得让人坐立不安的

"In an excruciating ITN piece transmitted just before A Taste of Honey opened in the West End, an interviewer with vowels as crimped as his hair asks Delaney how much ‘hyelp’ she had..."

（英国20世纪50年代末的）'厨房水槽现实主义'，指以工人阶级日常生活、琐碎家务为题材的戏剧与文学流派

"The Los Angeles Times obituary scooped up the received view of her work: ‘kitchen-sink realism’ (Delaney was more bedroom than kitchen)..."

元音咬得像他的头发一样卷曲做作（讽刺采访者故作上流的口音造作）

"In an excruciating ITN piece transmitted just before A Taste of Honey opened in the West End, an interviewer with vowels as crimped as his hair asks Delaney how much ‘hyelp’ she had in writing her play."

（书面）抱怨、暗自怨叹、郁郁不满

"Her characters have less charmed surroundings and their reactions to events are unusual on the stage, where repining is more common than stoicism."

弥散的、广泛渗透而不集中于一处的（此处指Delaney的影响是潜移默化、四散渗透的，而非显性的）

"It is a recognisable summary but it only skims the surface of what Delaney was up to and does not touch on the diffused effect she has had."

（经转变而）化身为、演变为（此处指广播剧这一形式被'改造'为所谓'音频'）

"Now, transmuted into ‘audio’, different writers (most recently, Richard Curtis) are taking it on."

（声音）拨弦般铮铮作响的；此处形容剧名古怪、突兀、带响声感

"There were television plays with twanging titles: Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen?"

自由不羁、不受拘束、随心所欲的人

"A dispatch rider swings by – a freewheeler, like the sailor in A Taste of Honey."

被拴住的、被绳系住的；（此处喻）被缚在原地、动弹不得

"She thought of them as ‘tethered’, like ponies; she was ‘dead lucky’ having writing to occupy her."

先知式的、神谕般的、预言性的（此处指老妇人的话语神秘、晦涩、有预言腔调）

"From time to time an elderly woman rummaging in dustbins, lugging around a plastic bag full of shoes, lets loose vatic pronouncements about anarchy and flashes her knickers."

选择性家庭、自选家庭（指因情感与选择而非血缘组成的亲属关系，如剧中单亲、同性伴侣、朋友互助等）

"Delaney changed conversations on and off the stage: ... about elective families; about nostalgia and escape."

与其说……不如说……（此处：她与其说当面大笑，不如说是泛起一阵涟漪般的轻笑）

"She doesn’t so much laugh in his face as ripple: ‘I just applied my imagination to my observation.’"

不被注意的、被忽视的、无人问津的

"And throughout, there were those most unregarded of dramas: radio plays."

（费力地、一点一点地）套出、探出、掏出（此处指老师想方设法套出她出走的理由）

"Out jogging, her maths teacher (overweight, lives with his mother) comes across her and tries to winkle out the reasons for her flight."

言辞简练甚至吝于言表的；简短而意味深长的

"His early and laconic pronouncements about what he was up to would hold good for most of what followed."

分类学式的；以种类归档排列的

"The curator Walter Hopps ... noted the taxonomic urge: 'Pies, singly and in groups, sectioned and whole...'"

（古希腊的）公共广场；喻指公共交流与交易的场域

"Steinberg's gift for analogy... submits joyfully to his sense of mid-century America as a vast agora or adventure playground in which likeness is all."

定制的、按订单专门制作的

"Steinberg's gift for analogy... combine unrepeatable oddity with dizzying sameness."

（绘画）强调笔触、颜料质感的；具有油画笔意的

"He spoke up for 'the stainless steel, porcelain, enamelled, plastic world that interests me now', but his versions of it are handmade: easel works full of painterly tact."

（艺术品）入藏，被博物馆正式收藏

"In a statement to accompany the accession of Cut Meringues by the Museum of Modern Art following his first New York exhibition in 1962, Wayne Thiebaud suggested that each era produces its own still life."

（此处）细腻的分寸感；手感的精巧

"He spoke up for 'the stainless steel, porcelain, enamelled, plastic world that interests me now', but his versions of it are handmade: easel works full of painterly tact."

正午（意大利语）；亦指意大利南部

"...as if the idea of starkness and glare were his real subject, a mezzogiorno whose shadows are substances, heavier than the things they follow."

（对同一对象）矛盾并存的、爱恨交织的

"His paintings are ambivalent about Pop, but they are also forms of Pop ambivalence."

（此处）一种'勉强可承受的轻盈'；呼应昆德拉式的存在之轻

"His images are best thought of in terms that balance their own just bearable lightness of being."

残留的、退化后留下的

"his real portraiture is not the mannequin-like figures of his formal portraits, as mute as meringues, but the vivid and vestigial human presence in such compositions as Reservoir and Orchard or Green River Lands..."

天真派艺术家；刻意以孩童般直率作画的人

"His uneasy acceptance, as a naif ('the pie guy', Barnett Newman said), lasted to the end of a long career..."

共谋、（此处）两种力量的暗中合流

"Above all, both painters needed the collusion and collision of natural and artificial..."

（此处）人体模型式的、无生命感的形象

"...just as his real portraiture is not the mannequin-like figures of his formal portraits, as mute as meringues..."

诡辩；看似有理实则谬误的论证

"He paints a georgic world rather than a version of pastoral, and sidesteps the sophistries that might be expected of such a late meditation on nature and nurture."

农事诗的；（喻）颂扬劳作与农耕秩序的

"He paints a georgic world rather than a version of pastoral, and sidesteps the sophistries that might be expected of such a late meditation on nature and nurture."

推轨变焦（镜头移动+反向变焦，制造背景逼近而主体静止的眩晕效果）

"Thiebaud learned from cinema, especially the dolly-zoom shot (whose earliest use was in Hitchcock's Vertigo, a San Francisco story)..."

西西弗斯式的；徒劳无尽、周而复始的

"Fresh river water pushes back Pacific seawater in an everyday Sisyphean drama."

重写本；喻指层层叠加、旧迹隐约可辨的复合体

"Diebenkorn spoke of aerial views as 'my favourite kind of looking', from his early experience of making reconnaissance flights ... and seeing from above an ageless palimpsest of desert and cultivation."

失范；社会规范崩解导致的疏离与无根感

"Richard Shiff... points to The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, which appeared a decade earlier and cornered the term 'anomie'..."

人为制造的、不自然的；虚伪造作的

"...which bears the same factitious relation to desire as lonesome bears to lonely."

（意大利语）风景画、景观图；尤指精细的城市景观画

"Those little vedute in fragmented circumstances were always poetic to me."

视觉欺骗画；以逼真透视诱使观者误认平面的画法

"...a kind of comestible mimicry or 'licked trickery', as Michael Baxandall described trompe l'oeil, with the signal difference that here no effort is being made to conceal the medium..."