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(计划或系统) 逐渐停摆, 勉强进行
"But the project sputtered out in disappointment and forgetting."
具有讽刺意味的是
"Ironically, however, the key link in the system through Central America, over which the US took control and about which there was incomparable publicity, was the slowest to advance."
华丽的辞藻；（常含贬义）空洞而华丽的说辞
"The Pan-American Highway that Oliveira hoped to pioneer was indeed born in a burst of fraternal rhetoric."
（组织或社会中的）等级阶梯；职位层级
"Beleaguered by a whisper campaign in Washington against his drive, Oliveira returned to Brazil disillusioned, and he rarely talked about his extraordinary excursion during the rest of his life, which was spent at the lowest rungs of Brazil’s consular service."
强大的；（论点、魅力）极具说服力或影响深远的
"The ideals remained potent for half a century, and in 1966 the US declared the entire US interstate system part of the Pan-American Highway network."
（因幻想破灭而）不再抱幻想的；失望的
"Beleaguered by a whisper campaign in Washington against his drive, Oliveira returned to Brazil disillusioned, and he rarely talked about his extraordinary excursion during the rest of his life, which was spent at the lowest rungs of Brazil’s consular service."
（机械运转时）发出连续快速的咔嗒声或震颤声
"The vehicle beneath him, a donated Ford Model T with a decade of delivering newspapers on the odometer, chattered with ease over alternating segments of fresh gravel and steaming asphalt that constituted Brazil’s new highway, connecting Rio de Janeiro with São Paulo."
无法到达的；无法进入的
"In a strictly material sense, this greater project has been a remarkable success, millions of miles of functional automobile paths that have revolutionised movement and left few spaces inaccessible to wheels."
无与伦比的；不可同日而语的
"Ironically, however, the key link in the system through Central America, over which the US took control and about which there was incomparable publicity, was the slowest to advance."
（贬义）破旧不堪的汽车
"In fact, the first to road-test potential routes for such a highway were not American drivers in new American cars but Argentines and Brazilians piloting either luxury European sedans entirely inappropriate to the terrain or topless American jalopies of dubious reliability."
辛苦劳作；长途跋涉
"Indeed, Oliveira’s gruelling daily toil did not let up until he entered the US state highway system almost a decade later."
(借词褒贬) 产生怀疑的; 靠不住的
"In fact, the first to road-test potential routes for such a highway were not American drivers in new American cars but Argentines and Brazilians piloting either luxury European sedans entirely inappropriate to the terrain or topless American jalopies of dubious reliability."
沉重缓慢地行走；持续单调地进行
"Oliveira’s convictions kept him and two later companions at their task, plodding north, year after year."
破坏；颠覆（思想、制度）
"Nearly a century later, the fraternal ideals that underpinned this dream and gave birth to the Pan-American Highway might appear unimaginably distant, subverted by nativist sentiment – but, in fact, remain alive in one of the two continents the road was supposed to link."
本土主义者的；排外主义者的
"Nearly a century later, the fraternal ideals that underpinned this dream and gave birth to the Pan-American Highway might appear unimaginably distant, subverted by nativist sentiment – but, in fact, remain alive in one of the two continents the road was supposed to link."
(性格、能量等) 抑制不住的, 极其强烈的
"But the notion that most resonated with his irrepressible idealism was the raw concept of unrestricted mobility, the agency and facility to go anywhere in the world a person cared to go."
骗子；冒牌货
"Even though he seemed to avoid the question himself, some at home wondered if his nationality, or worse, his likely African and Indigenous ancestry, played a role in his rejection as a legitimate explorer."
领事的
"Beleaguered by a whisper campaign in Washington against his drive, Oliveira returned to Brazil disillusioned, and he rarely talked about his extraordinary excursion during the rest of his life, which was spent at the lowest rungs of Brazil’s consular service."
迟来的；过时的
"And they rejected his maps, which they described as not inaccurate but belated."
不受限制的；无拘无束的
"The objective was to promote what Americans were calling a ‘Highway of Friendship’ – a Pan-American road, from the northern reaches of Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego, over which they hoped to see unfettered automotive travel and the emergence of stronger hemispheric cultural bonds."
(与某人)发生共鸣, 引起内心认同
"But the notion that most resonated with his irrepressible idealism was the raw concept of unrestricted mobility, the agency and facility to go anywhere in the world a person cared to go."
（为产生效果的）夸张动作；华丽的辞藻
"With shining medals around his neck and a new Swiss chronograph on his wrist, Oliveira departed from Rio to the fanfare of two brass bands and a flourish of civic oratory."
旅程；路线图；行程记录
"The evidence, however, suggests that Oliveira did exactly what he said he did. He arrived in Washington in early 1938 with a 500-page logbook of his itinerary, as well as photographs of himself and his companions posing with every mayor, governor and head of state they met along their route."
不热情的；冷淡的；不够积极的
"Nobody knew exactly where the proposal had originated, and some official reactions in Latin America were tepid, but the popular response revealed an accelerating enthusiasm, and auto makers moved to capitalise on it."
神话般的；传奇的
"And not far beyond the Panama Canal, the road came to a sudden halt at the boundary of an almost mythical space between Panama and Colombia known from 1955 as the Darién Gap."
虚构记忆（把想象当作记忆），无意识的记忆歪曲
"This historical confabulation formed early."
(对旅行者来说) 危险的; 暗藏危机
"He soon learned why he had so many doubters. Over his excursion, he found little mileage as easy as the Rio to São Paulo highway. The way was treacherous, and motorists had died in previous attempts."
支撑，巩固（论点、基础）
"Nearly a century later, the fraternal ideals that underpinned this dream and gave birth to the Pan-American Highway might appear unimaginably distant, subverted by nativist sentiment – but, in fact, remain alive in one of the two continents the road was supposed to link."
被侵蚀的；因水土流失而退化贫瘠的（景观）
"On both sides of the road, Oliveira surveyed the deforested Paraíba Valley, which had hosted the world’s first coffee boom – ranks of bean-fruiting bushes whose product had reached global markets in 60-kilo sacks on the backs of mules."
天赋, (做事的)灵巧; 便利条件
"But the notion that most resonated with his irrepressible idealism was the raw concept of unrestricted mobility, the agency and facility to go anywhere in the world a person cared to go."
无畏的；勇敢的
"Scores of intrepid adventure motorists were electrified by the possibility of such a road, and they believed the best way to support the proposal was to drive it, even before contractors had broken any ground."
在这里指精确地评估并纠正（我们对抗议的现代误用）
"The irreplaceable Wendell Berry (August 5, 1934–August 31, 2026) calibrates our modern misuse of protest in one of the essays in his altogether wonderful collection What Are People For? (public library)."
令人困惑的处境或状态，此处指历史与本性中令人费解的谜团
"Contemplating the challenge and urgency of creating in times when hope is difficult, times of darkness all the more needful of the lighthouse that is art, he observes that the very notion of protest art places us “directly in the presence of one of the bewilderments of our history and one of the mysteries of our nature,” and writes:"
令人深恶痛绝的事物，此处指人类历史上的种种暴行与罪恶
"The list of its undeniable abominations is long and hardly bearable."
反复重申的，此处暗示一种机械性的、缺乏新意的重复
"And these abominations are not balanced or compensated or atoned for by the list, endlessly reiterated, of our scientific achievements."
强烈谴责并深感痛惜，此处指向公众对具体暴行表达道德义愤
"Some people are moved, now and again, to deplore one abomination or another."
难以驾驭或处理的，此处指绝望中那种拒不妥协的顽固性
"Grief in its intractable stage resists the consolations of language; only years later does the very structure of loss become a scaffold for new perception."
弥漫并渗透至每一处，此处形容文化中错误固化的普遍性
"The notion that protest must yield tangible results within a visible horizon permeates contemporary activism, blindsiding us to slower, inner forms of change."
对某种物品或结果的盲目迷恋与崇拜，此处指对可见成功的病态执迷
"Our contemporary fetishism with quantifiable impact — the need to see a number move — is itself a refined form of the despair that protest was meant to overcome."
消极的默许与顺从，此处指面对不公时的被动屈服
"Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence."
破产倒闭
"One year in, Intel still lacks a customer committed to the 14A, its most advanced node; it also knows the government has 433 million reasons to prevent it from going bust."
正式启动、拉开序幕
"In 1984, the Air Force kicked off the Great Engine War, splitting the award for F-15 and F-16 engines between Pratt & Whitney and General Electric."
混乱激烈的打斗/竞争
"Neither Xi Jinping nor any other central planner could have predicted the winners of the 21st-century EV brawl: Xiaomi, a phone company; BYD, a battery manufacturer; and Leapmotor, a car company founded in 2015."
被动市场（指消费者别无选择、只能买你产品的局面）
"It is a state-owned enterprise with no rivals and a captive market, as Beijing forces Chinese airlines to buy COMAC’s planes."
被精心制造的竞争所锻造（指通过制度设计人为激发良性竞争，从而筛选出强者）
"China’s national champions were not state-directed; they were forged by manufactured competition."
（多个实体）聚拢合并，整合成更少、更强的集合
"As subsidies and government support continue to wind down, the market will coalesce around a few strong brands."
更加有理由（做某事）——表示某困境或不利条件反而强化了行动的必要性
"The complexity of building a commercial aircraft is all the more reason to try many different things, rather than line up behind one attempt."
勉强维持、扶持（某物或某公司）使其不倒
"The state can't just prop up the companies it wants to succeed."
钦定某个企业为'国家冠军'（给予特权与扶持使其成为行业龙头）
"The United States then used the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave Program funding to crown a national champion in one of its most strategically important industries."