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对“中间”状态的执着迷恋
"Why do you think the American musical has, as you write, such a fixation with the “middle”—both geographically (Iowa, the Midwest) and metaphorically (middle class, middle of life)?"
将（意象）相互对立、对质、进行对比
"This book is a media-rich book, one where I pit images against images in a way that I simply could not do if I were limited to live musicals."
（本语境中）戏剧化的、夸张做作的表演风格
"When we think of musicals—especially those from the early twentieth century—we imagine the narrative equivalent of cotton candy: a barrage of hugs, kisses, and histrionic dialogue interspersed with moments of song and dance, tying up every strand of conflict with an ornate bow before the curtain drops."
无意中暴露出（某事物的本质特征或缺陷）
"I was curious what to make of musicals that, in being made for film first, betrayed the key quality of a live musical."
看似无害、不引起怀疑的表面
"the “American musical is an unsuspecting, squeaky-clean surface” that “cleverly holds back grief … a skin, a covering, a hide for deeper, darker, bigger feelings.”"
被删除，被抹去（尤指文字或内容）
"As their relationship developed, Hetzel’s interventions became so great that the books often changed dramatically – characters were altered or expunged, dark events were softened and endings became uplifting."
毫无灵魂的；无情的，冷漠的；缺乏个性的
"The ending is bleak, and though Verne depicts the city as teeming with remarkable inventions and technologies, this future world is joyless, soulless and loveless, dedicated to conformity and hostile to difference."
驳斥，反驳
"Verne’s dystopian alternative seems a direct refutation of Mercier’s, or at least of utopian thinking in general."
广场恐惧症（对开阔空间或人群拥挤场所的恐惧）
"During these years, when his future was uncertain, his anxiety expressed itself in agoraphobia, violent stomach troubles and numerous bouts of facial paralysis (for which he received electric shock treatment)."
通俗化作家，普及者（含贬义）
"Zola called Verne a ‘vulgariser’, adding that if his books sold well, so did ‘dictionaries and parish prayer books’, and they had ‘no importance whatsoever’."
安慰，慰藉
"One would think his sales figures would have been a solace, but he never cared much, leaving all that to his publisher; the literary establishment’s disdain stung, however."
（情感的或空间的）凝练、压缩（此处指通过想象将广阔空间浓缩于一点）
"The immensity of his fictional voyaging emerged from an intense imaginative compression of space – maps studied at a desk, scientific reports mined for narrative energy, a globe contained and rendered in print."
意识形态的一致性（此处指商业品牌定位的连贯性）
"The Verne brand required ideological consistency. And so Verne put the book away, and seems never to have thought about it again."
有先见之明的，预知性的
"Their splashdown in the ocean is eerily prescient."
（非正式）仇视，伺机找...的茬，蓄意攻击（某人）
"...were openly gunning for Sturgeon."
管理主义（一种认为管理技术和过程本身可以解决所有组织和社会问题的意识形态或文化）
"Legitimate criticism of her managerialism and lack of transparency was mixed, in some quarters, with a deep-seated misogyny, and it became difficult to separate the two."
幸灾乐祸（指从他人的不幸中获得的快乐）
"According to Swinney, there was an increase in donations to the SNP in the wake of Murrell’s guilty plea: a nationalist middle finger in the face of unionist Schadenfreude."
（资金）被专项划拨的，被要求只能用于特定目的的
"the party set up two crowdfunders which raised some £600,000 from donors who thought their money was being ring-fenced for a new referendum campaign."
贪污，挪用（公款或委托财产）
"Murrell, who was jailed for five years and three months, was said to feel ‘guilt and remorse’ over his embezzlement of £400,000 over twelve years."
欺骗，诈取（钱财或权利）
"But no explanation was offered as to why a man who earned a substantial wage defrauded his own party to buy things he didn’t need and often didn’t use."
为了独立运动而闭嘴（意指为维护政治目标而搁置或掩盖内部批评与问题）
"This was peak ‘wheesht for indy’: a phrase used to describe the papering over of problems to ensure they did not damage the independence movement."
（态度）威吓的，咄咄逼人的，盛气凌人的
"'Just be very careful, all of us, about suggestions that there are problems with the party’s finances because we depend on donors to donate,' Sturgeon says in a tone that can only be described as hectoring."
（此处指）厚颜无耻的，肆无忌惮的
"It was an odd and brazen thing to say, because he knew then what we all now know: that Murrell is a thief who covets shiny trinkets."
觊觎，垂涎（尤指属于他人的东西）
"...that Murrell is a thief who covets shiny trinkets."
大杂烩，混杂在一起的东西
"But then everything about this story is odd and brazen, from the quiz show hodgepodge of goods Murrell bought..."
小圈子主义，派系化，排他性
"The party had grown hugely and moved from the fringes to the mainstream, but its structures, its governance, its cliquiness and its defensiveness remained."
充当次要角色，屈居第二
"On Sky’s Wargame, the woman who led Scotland through Covid will play second fiddle to Michael Gove as the fictional prime minister of a UK government fighting Russia."
拮据的、困窘的（经济上或处境上受压抑）
"After Bishop Paul died suddenly in 1983, the family circumstances became yet more straitened…"
吸血鬼般的（形容具有掠食性、凝视冷酷且吸收他人生命力的气质）
"Lucian Freud’s vampiric stare – blue-grey, strabismic – dazzles in Colony of Ghosts (2023)…"
斜视的（医学上描述两眼视线不平行）
"Lucian Freud’s vampiric stare – blue-grey, strabismic – dazzles in Colony of Ghosts (2023)…"
带有光环的、具有独特灵韵的（本雅明意义上的“灵韵”——指艺术品独特、不可复制的光晕或权威感）
"Paul wanted to conjure the power of that boys’ gang and express her own uneasy position vis-à-vis this now auratic company."
化身、替身（在文中指艺术家选择的精神形象/艺术上的化身）
"Her closeness to this avatar offers a clue to looking at Paul’s paintings of people…"
撕扯性的、极其痛苦的（情感上像被撕裂般尖锐）
"…her own lacerating passion for Freud…"
多节多瘤的、扭曲粗糙的（指树木或身体部位因老化或劳累变得不规则）
"…her gnarled and broken feet."
半透明性（这里比喻写作风格看似明澈、毫无保留）
"Paul’s writings give every impression of translucency and quivering confession; she is an artist of self-exposure, of hurt and sorrow, both on canvas and on the page."
简朴的、清苦的、禁欲的（指生活条件简陋且自律严苛）
"This upbringing was sheltered, unworldly and spartan: the exactions of a pastor’s family life, borne uncomplainingly, can be seen in Pamela’s worn features…"
感到/表现出愤怒与嫉妒（bridle 原指“勒马”，转指人因愤怒或受伤而抬头挺胸的肢体反应）
"Paul bridles with jealousy, feeling utterly rejected."
不容反驳地、专横地（语气强硬，不容商议）
"‘I peremptorily instructed my mother about what position she should assume …’"
混乱的翻涌、动荡的混合物（这里指夜色中的混沌与杂乱）
"The head seems to float in the lower half of the painting, an apparition in a welter of night;"
毫不畏缩地、坚决地（面对痛苦或丑恶时直视不避）
"Her paintings and her writings seem unflinchingly to scrutinise their subjects (often herself)."
葬礼、丧葬仪式（尤指正式的宗教悼念仪式）
"It is startling that the family connection led to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s officiating at the funeral of Lucian Freud – as if the pope had presided at Don Giovanni’s obsequies."
女隐士、女修道隐者（自愿封闭在小室中终生祈祷的中世纪女性宗教隐士）
"Paul committed herself to a modern, secular version of the life of an anchoress walled up in a cell, with only the rare visitor climbing the long flights of stairs to her studio-home in Bloomsbury…"
阴沉的、翻涌的（云层），带有压迫感和威胁性
"Celia Paul’s My Mother and God, from 1990, shows Paul’s mother, the obsessive subject of her art, against a louring cloud of thickly layered black and brown paint;"
被撕裂、被分裂（指情感上或关系上被重重打击）
"That her happy childhood in North Crawley was riven by tragedy when her little cousin was run over."
白霜、结晶层（这里指画料干结后像霜一样覆盖地面的沉积物）
"…the rime of paint crusts and detritus on the floor…"
沉默寡言、保留、不流露（特指说话或表达上的克制）
"This reticence is a central quality of Paul’s artistry as both writer and painter."
隐士般的、与世隔绝的（指生活像沙漠隐士一样孤寂苦修）
"…and marvel at the eremitical squalor, the rime of paint crusts and detritus on the floor…"
比喻性用法，形容（北爱尔兰所扮演的）角色具有破坏性、有害且会毒化周围环境。
"People in both countries are resentful that a place accounting for less than 3 per cent of the population of Britain and Ireland combined should play such a pivotal – and generally toxic – role in their affairs."
（写作或分析）清晰易懂的，明了的。
"Together with Fintan O'Toole, a columnist for the Irish Times, McBride is co-author of For and against a United Ireland, a lucid and highly informed study of the issue."
比喻性用法，指一个潜在矛盾激烈、随时可能爆发危机的地方或局势（政治火山）。
"Although it has a reputation as a political volcano, between eruptions its internal dynamics are usually ignored in Britain and the Irish Republic."