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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..."
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..."
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."
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."
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."
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."
卸载；抛售（将不需要的、有风险的或负担重的物品/责任转移出去）
"...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."
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.’"
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.’"
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."
困境；两难的窘境
"Britain’s present economic bind began in the winter of 2021-22."
对……保持警觉；敏锐地意识到（潜在的危险或变化）
"Recognising the revival, and alert to the inflationary forces it had unleashed, in December 2021 the Bank of England made the first in a series of interest-rate hikes..."
暴跌；彻底失败（常用于名词‘tank’动词化，指一个物体的价值像被击中一样迅速下降）
"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."
释放出；引发（指强烈的、通常是破坏性的力量）
"Recognising the revival, and alert to the inflationary forces it had unleashed, in December 2021 the Bank of England made the first in a series of interest-rate hikes..."
（某领域的）专家；评论员（尤指在媒体上发表意见者）
"Government borrowing costs have remained high ever since, which is interpreted by political pundits as evidence that the bond markets still aren’t happy with day-to-day fiscal policy announcements..."
着手；开始（一项重大的、有计划的行动或事业）
"At that month’s meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, it was agreed that the bank would embark on a strategy of ‘quantitative tightening’..."
（斗争、争议或事件中的）主要人物；主角
"But as heterodox economists such as Daniela Gabor and Adam Tooze have repeatedly emphasised, there was another protagonist in the Truss disaster: the Bank of England..."
急剧飙升；猛涨（指数量、价格或力量的突然增加）
"Energy prices surged, driving inflation up in many countries, Britain included."
面临；遭遇（尤指困难或令人不快的局面）
"Meanwhile, the state, which spent much of the previous decade borrowing at a rate well below 2 per cent, is confronted by rates more than twice that level."
债权人；贷方
"For the past four and a half years, two things have become too expensive: satisfying the material needs of the population and the financial demands of the government’s creditors."
非正统的；异端的（指观点、理论等与主流或传统认知不同）
"But as heterodox economists such as Daniela Gabor and Adam Tooze have repeatedly emphasised, there was another protagonist in the Truss disaster: the Bank of England..."
盗用公款; 贪污 (具体指将指定用于议会助理的基金用于支付政党员工)
"Yesterday, a Paris appeals court upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzling European Parliament funds."
政纲的核心要点；纲领 (政党平台中的关键政策主张)
"…who founded the Front National, the ancestor of the RN, in the 1970s—long made corruption a central plank of the party’s platform."
咆哮；厉声宣称 (带有攻击性或愤怒的口号式宣称)
"Still, for the leader of a party that for decades barked that politicians were 'all rotten,' she is dangerously close to admitting that she is now part of the same barrel."
被非民选机构束缚/限制 (民粹派批评司法机构限制人民意志的修辞)
"…the democratic will of the people cannot be shackled by unelected entities like courts."
规避；绕开 (通过技巧性手段避开障碍/限制)
"In an attempt to sidestep these handicaps, she has announced that she will appeal to the Court de Cassation, France’s highest court."
普遍的不安；弥漫的焦虑感 (法国政界的弥漫性不安情绪)
"The trial and verdict—and now the uncertainty about whether and when Le Pen will face home detention—have created considerable malaise in French politics."
破坏；使失败 (彻底且突然地毁掉某人的机会/计划)
"A year before a presidential election, is it possible that the frontrunner and leader of the opposition will have her chances scuppered by judges?"
不利条件；障碍 (本文指因此次判决对竞选活动造成的限制)
"In an attempt to sidestep these handicaps, she has announced that she will appeal to the Court de Cassation, France’s highest court."
民粹政治的悖论 (本文指民粹派自称反建制却成为腐败建制一部分的自相矛盾逻辑)
"One way to look at it is that Le Pen has become a victim of the paradoxes of populist politics."
出乎意料的转折；剧情反转 (本文指法院判决中始料未及的变化)
"In an unexpected twist, the court sharply reduced the political consequences of the conviction, trimming her prison term from four years to three…"
临时执行；暂行执行 (在最终判决前立即生效的法律措施)
"The remaining 15 months are to be treated as already served under the provisional enforcement of the initial March 2025 verdict, which means Le Pen now appears eligible to stand in the 2027 presidential election…"
不爱交际的；不合群的 ('unsociable' 的罕见同义词，但更强调“无法或不愿与他人建立社会联系”)
"I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-device companions..."
过分精确的；拘泥细节的；一丝不苟到迂腐程度的
"I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-device companions..."
教导、灌输（此处原意是“教授”，但学究使用了现代已带贬义的词，造成滑稽效果）
"...till I have indoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities."
铅灰色的脑子（即“愚笨的头脑”），'plumbeous' 意为“似铅的”，'cerebrosities' 是 'cerebrum'（大脑）的夸张复数形式
"...till I have indoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities."
构建、完善一个论点（此处是学究对 'make an argument' 的故作精确的替代说法）
"Why, you brute nebulons, have you had my corpusculum so long among you, and cannot yet tell how to edify an argument?"
用话语的丝线纺得比论点的原料还要细（即“废话连篇，言之无物”，比喻文辞华丽但论据薄弱）
"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
扭曲正字法的人（指那些随意改变单词拼写的人，'rack' 意为“拉伸、扭曲、折磨”，'orthography' 意为“正确拼写”）
"I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-device companions, such rackers of orthography..."
怀孕的（'gravitated' 是拉丁语 'gravidus' 的英语化形式，意为“怀孕的”，此处是学究式的夸张说法）
"Attend and throw your ears to me, for I am gravidated with child till I have indoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities."
狂热的幻想家/空想家 ('Phantasime' 是 'phantasm' 的变体，意为“幻象、空想”，加上指人后缀)
"I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-device companions, such rackers of orthography..."
学究式的语言；故作高深、卖弄学问的说话方式（带有贬义）
"This is what ‘Listen up’ sounds like when translated into pedantese: ‘Why, you brute nebulons, have you had my corpusculum so long among you, and cannot yet tell how to edify an argument?’"
蠢货；头脑糊涂的人（源自拉丁语，意为“云”或“雾”，指头脑像云一样混沌不清的人）
"Why, you brute nebulons, have you had my corpusculum so long among you, and cannot yet tell how to edify an argument?"
小身体；小家伙（此处指“我这个人”，是一种极其夸张、卖弄的拉丁文自指）
"Why, you brute nebulons, have you had my corpusculum so long among you, and cannot yet tell how to edify an argument?"
仁慈地、和善地；无害地。在此语境中，形容女神珀耳塞福涅慈爱地、温和地注视着冬眠中的自然万物。
"The early poem ‘Persephone’, for instance, which Longley considered one of his best, has the goddess of Spring watching benignly over the hibernating life of nature at the winter equinox, but the poem’s final sighting is the crafty progress of weasels, stoats and foxes."
（以一种令人消除敌意、戒心或怀疑的方式）难以让人产生反感地，有迷人谦逊意味地。
"The loveliness of such things is a part of their precariousness, what Longley disarmingly called ‘the slightly Japanese, Chinese, feathery, leafy, butterfly-wingy side of my imagination’."
（计划、目标、才能等的）实现，完成；取得成果。
"But the true fruition of his version of the mythical method came later, starting with the sequence of retold Homeric episodes in Gorse Fires (1991), a volume that marked a triumphant return to publication after several years of silence."
不稳定、不确定的状态；风险性、脆弱性。在此特指诗歌创作能否成功的悬而未决的状态。
"Several of his best readers have picked up on this quality of his imagination: McDonald has written (admiringly) of the ‘apparent fragility’ of the poems, and the critic John Lyon argued that ‘precariousness is a precondition of Longley’s art.’"
以书信形式构成的；与书信写作相关的。
"Still, as Allen goes on to say, Longley could hardly have been unaware that inhabiting two places at once is exactly what he did in the epistolary poem he addressed to Heaney, depicting both the reality of ‘the sick counties we call home’ and the alternative reality of ‘That small subconscious cottage where/The Irish poet slams his door’."