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（众人）共同出资，凑份子
"A confused silence followed, before the rest of us pitched in to pay the bill."
（传统的拉丁美洲）麻底布鞋，帆布鞋
"I noticed his shoes: they were traditional alpargatas, or espadrilles, woven from colourful twine but with ‘Nike’ embroidered on the side."
（尤指拉丁美洲社区中的）小型杂货店，便利店
"As I waited for José in the only bodega within hours of the desert, a boy arrived on a pink bicycle."
终于让步，不再固执，软化态度
"I tried my question again when we stopped to fix a problem with the truck. José relented."
加强（防务），设防，巩固（阵地）
"After the airstrike, José continued, fighters from the National Liberation Army (ELN) fortified the area."
能揭示秘密或隐藏情况的；露出马脚的
"Today we scan the cosmos for some of these telltale signatures light-years away."
变革性的力量；能够彻底改变某物性质或状态的能力
"So great is the transformative power of life that its presence can be detected just from the light and radio waves our planet emits or reflects into space."
（物质、能量等的）持续流动、不断的变动
"It’s not enough to say that life is a nonequilibrium organized state through which there’s a constant flux of matter and energy."
唤起，引起（某种情感、记忆或想法）
"But the debate about biological agency touches on fundamental issues in our understanding of what it means to be alive, because agency evokes a notion that biologists and philosophers have always wrestled with: teleology, the apparent purposiveness of life."
能动性；主体性；一个实体自主行事并实现其目标的能力
"One way to express this idea is to say that living organisms have “agency.”"
目的论；一种哲学学说，认为事物有其内在目的或终极目标
"But the debate about biological agency touches on fundamental issues in our understanding of what it means to be alive, because agency evokes a notion that biologists and philosophers have always wrestled with: teleology, the apparent purposiveness of life."
削弱、减弱（此处指使人类心灵变得贫瘠）
"But we will have attenuated the conditions that are necessary for our own 'ensoulment'"
极其短暂的、转瞬即逝的（指人类生命在宇宙尺度下的短暂性）
"our lives are indeed small and ephemeral"
（口语）眼睛——此处通过非正式用词消解深奥哲学讨论的严肃感
"a conscious self behind either pair of peepers"
灵魂赋予——使存在获得灵魂的假设过程
"But we will have attenuated the conditions that are necessary for our own 'ensoulment'"
声谱仪——将鸟鸣声频率转换为视觉图像的精密仪器
"sometimes distinguishable only with a spectrograph"
音乐术语：快板——此处用作隐喻，指示鸟类新陈代谢的持续高速状态
"with a metabolism continually in allegro"
将人类特质（情感、动机、语言能力）投射到非人类实体上
"Without anthropomorphizing our nonhuman relations we can acknowledge that animals share many human characteristics."
超越自我意识的消解过程，指在艺术或道德行为中暂时忘却个人得失
"an occasion for unselfing"
令人敬畏的超自然神圣性，指无法被理性完全把握的神秘力量
"emissaries of the numinous"
赋予神圣性，使（短暂事物）获得持久的精神意义
"rituals that hallow the evanescent events of our lives with enduring significance"
计划或行动意外失败（此处指猎人没有命中目标）
"one nineteenth-century naturalist’s account of a misfire"
微观宇宙——在个体内部反映并包含整个宇宙本质的存在
"Soul is what makes each of our lives a microcosm — not merely a meaningless fragment of the universe, but at some level a reflection of the whole."
强烈的、近乎狂热的痴迷或执着（此处特指对占有的病态欲望）
"not one is demented with the mania of owning things"
充满活力的热情与生命力，特指使生存超越单纯挣扎的内在动力
"endowing existence with dignity and élan"
充满关怀的担忧与关注，特指对他者困境的主动关心
"manifesting much apparent solicitude"
作为推理基础的基本假设或公理（此处指人类与现实对话时所依赖的理论框架）
"why we yearn to converse with reality in prayers and postulates"
资产类别（指具有相似金融特征的一类投资，如股票、债券、房地产）
"It is the kind of hopeful manifesto that makes Treasury mandarins shudder. What began as a policy for Manchester buses should become the template for housing and care, such that the basic conditions of social life can no longer be treated as an asset class."
高级官员；官僚（尤指有影响力的文官或公务员）
"It is the kind of hopeful manifesto that makes Treasury mandarins shudder."
过度膨胀的；虚高的（指价格或估值被人为地推高到不合理的水平）
"He makes the case for intervening wherever investment has dried up, prices are being over-inflated by rent-seeking, or primary human needs are being exploited for profit."
零售产品；在此语境中指一个经过包装、面向大众（选民）销售的政治‘产品’
"At present, he is a retail product: someone who appears relaxed around ordinary people and on camera..."
轮廓；概貌；（复杂问题的）大致形状和边界
"While the precise contours of a Burnhamite political economy are hard to predict, there are clues scattered through his speeches and the ideas of his allies."
提出充分的理由/论据来支持（某观点或行动）
"He makes the case for intervening wherever investment has dried up, prices are being over-inflated by rent-seeking, or primary human needs are being exploited for profit."
寻租（指利用权力或垄断地位，通过操纵市场而非创造价值来攫取利益）
"He makes the case for intervening wherever investment has dried up, prices are being over-inflated by rent-seeking, or primary human needs are being exploited for profit."
重新与……联系起来（通常指负面、不想要的联系）
"...and although he has spent plenty of time in Westminster, hasn’t (yet) become reassociated with that much loathed place."
谨慎的；小心周全的（尤指考虑所有可能的风险和后果）
"Since then, the press – led by the usually more circumspect Financial Times – has been like a dog with a bone, chasing down bond market analysts for apocalyptic visions of Burnhamism..."
执着地咬住不放；对某件事穷追不舍（指不愿放手）
"Since then, the press – led by the usually more circumspect Financial Times – has been like a dog with a bone, chasing down bond market analysts for apocalyptic visions of Burnhamism..."
不顾一切；铤而走险；完全放弃谨慎行事
"But rhetorically he continues to throw caution to the wind."
受制于；欠……的债（通常用于表达一种依赖或受控关系）
"‘We’ve got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets.’"
人工产物；（在此引申为）特定历史条件/‘人造’体系下的产物
"Both were artefacts of American hegemony, whose vision of the international order provided a platform on which particular versions of capitalism could thrive around the world."
极其愤怒的；暴怒的
"Whatever its economic merits, the political shortcoming of this agenda is the time it takes to succeed when faced with an increasingly irate public – too long, it turns out, to save Starmer."
匆忙地；即兴地；未经仔细准备地（通常指决策）
"His tendency to make fiscal pledges on the hoof depending on what his audience wants to hear..."
随口说出的话；不经意的评论（但往往事后被证明很重要）
"In an interview with the New Statesman last September, Burnham made a throwaway remark he has not been allowed to forget: ‘We’ve got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets.’"
维持；支撑（指保持某种状态、体系或期望的存续）
"...growth widens political choices and sustains the basic postwar expectation that the future will be materially better than the past."
优先于……；地位/重要性高于……
"...the Bank of England, which made it clear that its policy of offloading government bonds would take precedence over supporting the constitutionally mandated (if not quite elected) government of the day."
喋喋不休地谈论；让人厌烦地大谈特谈
"Burnham hasn’t been banging on about growth to the same extent as recent political leaders or his ex-rival for the leadership, Wes Streeting."
急剧上升；猛涨
"The cost of borrowing shot up further, Tory poll numbers tanked, and the outcome was a return to the stifling orthodoxy of Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt."
不可接受的；超越社会规范底线的
"Jaeggi uses the example of corporal punishment in schools, something that was once treated as normal but is now considered beyond the pale thanks to a reflexive process of argument, campaigning and consensus formation."
（各种力量、情绪或思想）在我们周围涌动/盘旋
"Progress also provokes the hallucinatory forces of reaction that swirl around us today, which are based on fantasies of the way life was lived in a poorly remembered past."
价格欺诈者；哄抬物价者（指在危机时期牟取暴利的人）
"Policies aimed at improving affordability are ameliorative as much as anything, seeking to position the state on the side of working people against rentiers and price-gougers."