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在此语境中指（说话或写作）冗长、空洞、夸夸其谈的
"She continued to write, burning whatever she wrote, until, during the First World War, she sold ‘a set of windy martial verses’ to a Christmas card company."
带有寓言/传说的味道或气氛
"Sometimes this gives Whitaker’s fiction the flavour of a fable or fairy tale – be careful what you wish for – but her writing is too closely tied to time and place to feel unreal."
悬而未决，暂时搁置，暂时中止
"By the end of 2012, with Gaddafi dead, the Libyan intervention done and dusted and Sarkozy no longer in office, public interest in his Libyan connection was briefly in abeyance."
（观点或政策）彻底转向，180度大转弯
"In July state prosecutors began looking into Takieddine’s volte-face in Paris-Match: they were concerned that a key witness in the Libyan affair had been suborned to obstruct the course of justice."
陪伴，护送，监督（像监护人一样照看）
"Balladur had chaperoned the Pakistan contract through its early stages."
收买，唆使，买通（某人作伪证或干坏事）
"In July state prosecutors began looking into Takieddine’s volte-face in Paris-Match: they were concerned that a key witness in the Libyan affair had been suborned to obstruct the course of justice."
默许，纵容，暗中勾结（尤指对错误或非法行为的放任）
"Both attacks were carried out with the connivance of Libyan intelligence."
一岁崽；引申义为新手，初出茅庐的人（尤指在政治领域）
"During his tenure, Balladur groomed a number of political yearlings, among them Sarkozy, whom he rewarded with the post of budget minister."
杀害兄弟（或同胞）的；引申义为内部互相残杀的，同室操戈的
"Through all this, Sarkozy kept his eyes on the presidency, distancing himself from Balladur’s fratricidal gambit and recasting himself as a Chirac supporter."
开脱罪责，辩解，证明无罪
"In his prison diary, his latest attempt at self-exculpation, he tells us he was overcome with relief when the courts agreed to hear his appeal, which he took as proof of his blamelessness."
可耻的，不光彩的，丢脸的（尤指失败或死亡的方式）
"By the end of October, Gaddafi had been dragged from hiding and put to an ignominious death."
一团/一束（线、纱或故事）；引申义为一团乱麻般的复杂情况
"Sarkozy is still entangled in a skein of allegations and his efforts to cut himself free have inflicted collateral damage on the French political class."
黑手党成员；引申义为具有（或类似）黑手党式作风或特征的人或事物
"It’s a dangerous opinion, and one of many mafioso touches in the book, along with the schmaltzy memories of old friends, ingratiating praise for the Rassemblement national in the hope of being offered a pardon if its candidate wins in 2027, outright rejection of the charges against him, and cloying eulogies to his family, who bore their suffering heroically during his time in La Santé."
错综复杂的，晦涩难懂的（指想法、论点或叙述）
"But the background is deeper and less convoluted than it suits him to acknowledge: the Libyan funding investigation has reopened an old wound – the explosion of a bomb on a French passenger jet flying over Niger in 1989."
正式审议会议（通常涉及多方讨论和决策）
"It has run a series of deliberation sessions in which participants produce Islamic legal opinions (fatwas) on a range of topics..."
女性生殖器切割（FGC，替代‘割礼’的中性术语，强调其有害性）
"It has run a series of deliberation sessions in which participants produce Islamic legal opinions (fatwas) ... including ... female genital cutting."
法特瓦（伊斯兰教法意见，由权威学者就特定问题发布）
"It has run a series of deliberation sessions in which participants produce Islamic legal opinions (fatwas) on a range of topics including sexual violence against women..."
公开支持或提倡（某种事业或立场）
"In Indonesia, to advocate for women’s rights is to find yourself in a minority position."
一种思想流派或意识形态运动（在特定历史语境中）
"Huda writes that feminism as a distinct ideological current has been part of the country’s culture since the early twentieth century."
以…为基础；基于…（尤指根本原则或信仰体系）
"Many are grounded in the nation’s majority Muslim faith."
乌里玛（伊斯兰学者团体，尤其指法律和神学权威）
"One of the groups working in the new online spaces is the Congress of Indonesian Women Ulama (KUPI), which was founded in 2015 as a space for feminist ulama, Islamic scholars."
提及；援引（尤指作为来源或依据）
"KUPI encourages scholars and supporters to share their interpretations without referencing the organization."
互惠（印尼伊斯兰语境中的平等互助概念）
"Another feminist initiative connected with KUPI centers on mubadalah.id, a blog created to discuss topics related to mubadalah, or reciprocity, including in the context of gender relations."
父权制文化（以男性主导权力结构和家庭体系的社会模式）
"Huda concludes that the online resources constitute 'an alternative public space that runs in favor of its feminist interests and against dominant discourses on women that exist across many patriarchal cultures in Indonesia.'"
令人完全呆住的、令人目瞪口呆的，通常指因震惊、敬畏或着迷而无法动弹。
"But it holds on its back a transfixing map of wrecks, as densely packed as a map of restaurants in the West End."
此处为拟人化用法，指雕像闷闷不乐地、不情愿地、消极地拒绝做某事（拒绝放大声音）。
"Michael Bennett’s Sound Mirror sullenly refuses to amplify noise: I’ve kicked and yelled at it."
在此处用作名词，指杂乱无序的一堆、一团（东西），暗示被随意地、大量地堆积在一起。
"More striking, more sea-drenched, is the neighbouring tumble of washed-up pink Crocs..."
在此语境中用作动词，指像战场或急诊室那样，根据道德价值或紧急程度对他人进行筛选和分类，带有批判和冷漠的意味。
"...who don’t morally triage others."
在此语境中为比喻义，指作品充满了、承载着（大量的引用或含义），如同货船载满货物。
"It’s freighted with quotations from Ford Madox Ford..."
一种民间传说中的石头，中间天生有洞，被认为具有驱邪、避祸和保护作用。也指女巫之石。
"Gregory’s book is flavoured by the desert landscape – the pale loom of the power station, the hag stones among the shingle..."
在此语境中指对当前社会弊病（陷阱和毒物）的一种矫正或补救方法，一种精神上的解药。
"Here is an antidote to current traps and poisons."
作者生造的词，指一个布满俗气的花园地精（gnome）雕像的景观，带有贬义，形容一种品味不高的、田园牧歌式的审美。
"One neighbour thinks the garden – in which Jarman aimed at both English gnomescape and Japanese serenity – is not 'all it is cracked up to be'."
指小而精致的、可爱的，有时带有轻微的贬义，暗示小得不值一提或过于花哨。
"...the trim front space, winding its way through dinky dolmens, looks a bit Lord of the Rings."
动词，指（船）沉没。常用于描述船只因进水或撞毁而沉入水底。
"Here are the names of seven hundred of the two thousand vessels that have foundered on Goodwin Sands..."
注入新鲜血液（指引进新人以改变僵化体制）
"The conference was supposed to inject new blood into the party..."
（比喻）难以摆脱的困境/泥沼（指腐败、停滞的政治体系）
"There are ways out of this swamp."
名义领袖/傀儡首脑，象征性存在但无实权
"And the movement would have a figurehead in the event of Barghouti’s death."
（动词）用枪击穿膝盖骨（作为致残而非致命手段）
"Israeli snipers boasted about how many people they could kneecap in one day – the record was 42."
比喻意义上指“受雇维护对方利益的下级执行者”，带强烈讽刺意味
"From 2008 onwards, Hamas tried to make progress by acting as Israel's security ‘subcontractor’ in Gaza."
（以色列军事术语）比喻对加沙定期进行的有限度军事打击，像修剪草坪一样周期性压制
"The operations Israel liked to call ‘mowing the lawn’ meant that Palestinians were steadily being killed."
将...纳入考量（常指忽略关键因素后承认错误）
"He has also said that Hamas ‘didn’t factor in the consequences’ of the operation."
（重大事件的）策划者/设计者，强调从构思到执行的整体规划
"I have been told that Meshal, too, describes the architects of 7 October as ‘politically inexperienced’."
指缺乏主权的傀儡领土/班图斯坦（原指南非种族隔离时期建立的“黑人自治区”）
"As a friend once said to me, ‘the leadership of your liberation movement is also the leadership of your bantustans.’"
不稳定地、危险地（生活状态），指看似稳定实则随时可能崩溃的境况
"That's when Ibrahim realised he had been living precariously all along."
（财富、希望等）迅速消失殆尽，如同蒸发般不留痕迹
"His life savings evaporated within months as some prices increased more than 6000 per cent."
将（城市、建筑）夷为平地，强调军事行动的系统性摧毁
"...a few months later they flattened the entire city."
（疾病、问题、极端思想等的）滋生地/温床
"These have become breeding grounds for rodents and insects."
死罪；可以判处死刑的罪行。在本文中用于比喻，形象地说明某事在当时的法律或政治环境中是极其严重的。
"Again, it was slow, but it finally went until 2003—being a millionaire in China was a capital offense."
做不可能做到的事；解决无法解决的矛盾；试图用圆规和直尺画出一个与给定圆面积相等的正方形（一个古老的几何学难题）
"So if we think that kind of innovation requires liberal values or liberal institutions, do we need to say that China has liberal values or institutions, or how do we square the circle here?"
帝国式的狭隘；一种源自帝国中心、自视甚高、无视自身局限性并贬低其他文化的狭隘心态
"This imperial provinciality of Europeans about how foolish their ancestors were—who just believed, if they were highly educated, in Aristotle, and if they weren't highly educated, believed only in the traditions of their fathers, and those were irrational—and the assumption that people with non-white skin are inferior and stupid and just do what they do..."