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（正式地）哀叹；惋惜（某事物的缺失或不足）
"Secord writes that nineteenth century botanists “constantly lamented the small number of practitioners and stressed the need to sustain popular interest in the science in the hope of encouraging wider participation.”"
完全不在乎；认为毫无价值
"He wrote that the publisher “cares nought for my descriptions at all, & would not care a straw whether all the plants were European or Antarctic.”"
维持；使（某事物）持续存在
"Secord writes that nineteenth century botanists “constantly lamented the small number of practitioners and stressed the need to sustain popular interest in the science in the hope of encouraging wider participation.”"
（比喻）掩盖物；伪装；外衣
"Herschel agreed, saying that images could be a good hook, but that pleasure “should not be a mere ‘cloak for the instruction intended to be conveyed.’”"
包容主义者；主张扩大参与范围的
"Secord believes these episodes should bring us “a greater awareness of the inclusionist aims of expert practitioners, which were inscribed in the ways in which they promoted their science.”"
（比喻）铭刻于；深深嵌入（某事物的本质中）
"Secord believes these episodes should bring us “a greater awareness of the inclusionist aims of expert practitioners, which were inscribed in the ways in which they promoted their science.”"
可靠的知识；（经过验证的）扎实学问
"Secord writes that astronomer John Herschel “contrasted the ‘easy access’ of those ‘who cater for the passions’ with the difficulties experienced by promoters of ‘sound knowledge or rational instruction.’”"
理性教导；基于逻辑和推理的教育
"Secord writes that astronomer John Herschel “contrasted the ‘easy access’ of those ‘who cater for the passions’ with the difficulties experienced by promoters of ‘sound knowledge or rational instruction.’”"
护身符般的神奇力量；迷信般的效力
"There was “no talismanic power in scientific language,” Lees wrote, and he argued that images allowed the eye and mind to work together in a way that words could not."
将……与……进行对比（以突出差异）
"Secord writes that astronomer John Herschel “contrasted the ‘easy access’ of those ‘who cater for the passions’ with the difficulties experienced by promoters of ‘sound knowledge or rational instruction.’”"
建立在专业知识基础上；以专业水平为根基
"Lees was careful to argue that images should be grounded in expertise."
（需求、数量等）急剧增加；激增
"Then the 1815 Apothecaries’ Act in Britain required doctors to learn botany, and the demand for lectures surged, among both students and interested outsiders."
没有什么能超越……；极其……
"“Nothing could exceed the interest shown by that Class:—in short they came for the pleasure of the thing.”"
迎合情感/欲望；满足低级趣味
"Secord writes that astronomer John Herschel “contrasted the ‘easy access’ of those ‘who cater for the passions’ with the difficulties experienced by promoters of ‘sound knowledge or rational instruction.’”"
沉着的；稳重的；古板的，一成不变的。
"Sitting here hoping for these two remarkable teams to give this tournament the final it deserves, I can’t help but feel that the distance between the languid, staid football of 1970 and the turbocharged game that’s played today captures the transformation our societies have undergone these last 56 years as neatly as anything else I can think of."
（此处）缓慢的；松弛的；缺乏活力的，慵懒的。
"Sitting here hoping for these two remarkable teams to give this tournament the final it deserves, I can’t help but feel that the distance between the languid, staid football of 1970 and the turbocharged game that’s played today captures the transformation our societies have undergone these last 56 years as neatly as anything else I can think of."
超越极限；打破界限；使...溢出/泛滥。
"Because Lionel Messi long ago burst the banks of the superlatives channeled to him, transcended his Argentinianness, almost his humanity, to become a myth."
庞然大物；巨大的、强大的事物或组织。
"It was the dawn of color TV, and the sport had yet to begin its transformation into the global commercial behemoth it has since become."
催眠的；使人昏昏欲睡的。
"Some matches inevitably fall flat—tapes of Japan-Tunisia could be prescribed as an effective treatment for insomnia. But others reach frenzied peaks of unlikely excitement, like the astonishing epic that Austria-Algeria turned into."
（俚语）榨取...的利润；从...中获利。
"...an unmanageable explosion of games—some intriguing, many one-sided, a few just absurd—that exist, I’m quite sure, mostly to juice FIFA’s profits."
（本文中）抢劫，掠夺；特别是那种有组织、高价值的盗窃行为。
"No context sentence (标题本身)，但原文副标题为: “Yes, I Will Be Watching Every Minute of FIFA’s $11 Billion Heist”"
（此处比喻）狂饮作乐的场面，狂欢活动；原指古罗马的酒神节，以放纵、混乱著称。
"It begins as an all out bacchanalia, a frenetic all-you-can-eat football buffet of multiple games each day."
令人眼花缭乱的活动或表演；喧闹而华丽的氛围；花招。
"There’s no 21st century razzmatazz on display, none of the hyper-produced HD glitter FIFA has learned to lard on in the intervening decades."
（此处比喻）在...中添加（过多的、花哨的、不必要的）东西；润饰，点缀。
"There’s no 21st century razzmatazz on display, none of the hyper-produced HD glitter FIFA has learned to lard on in the intervening decades."
意外发现珍奇事物的本领；机缘巧合，意外之喜。
"There’s a wonderful sense of serendipity in the wildly mismatched pairings: there is no other context in which Panamanians will all collectively channel their national fervor into temporary animosity against Croatia, and yet there it is, playing out on your screen."
丰饶之角；大量，丰盛。
"Of course, the cornucopia can’t last forever. As the tournament moves forward teams get knocked out..."
完全失败；未能达到预期的效果；令人索然无味。
"Some matches inevitably fall flat—tapes of Japan-Tunisia could be prescribed as an effective treatment for insomnia."
多得令人不知所措的财富/好东西；富足得让人难为情。
"Now, with the tournament expanded to 48 teams, what was already an embarrassment of riches has turned into a kind of firehose of football, an unmanageable explosion of games..."
论点；主张（在辩论或论证中持有的观点）
"Our contention is that, if we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts…"
连击；组合拳（原意为拳击术语，喻指两件接踵而至的强有力的事物，在此语境中指“AP”与“Literature”的固定搭配）
"I had never heard the word “literature” uttered without the one-two punch of “AP” before it…"
是……的典型代表；集中体现了（某类事物的特征）
"The pressing question is not the extent to which Roth typified the conventional thinking of his day…"
无人机色情片（文中为反讽和黑色幽默，指对无人机监控、航拍等影像的病态痴迷）
"Q. Drone porn? Q. Everyone’s a critic."
限定；界定（划定清晰的范围或界限）
"if we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives…"
无限期沉默誓言（一种极端、无终点且带有宗教或精神苦修色彩的沉默承诺）
"the relief and wonder of finally, after all this time, meeting other people who know exactly what you’re talking about when you mention … the student body voted to take an indefinite vow of silence."
华而不实的（外表光鲜夺目但实际毫无用处或效果）
"When the art market can get by with flashy and ineffectual figurative paintings that are easy to sell on Instagram…"
可理解性；清晰易懂（使事物能被理性认知和理解的性质）
"we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts…"
收回、撤回。在此语境中，不是指收回手臂或身体部位，而是指收回之前（对特朗普）的支持，即‘转变立场’。
"...and said, hey, that’s not what I voted for. When did that become okay? That’s part of the reason why they’ve retracted and are moving away from him."
（政治中）一党同时控制总统职位、参议院和众议院的局面。源于赛马博彩术语，指精准猜中前三名。
"imagining that Democrats win in 2028, and perhaps they even have a trifecta..."
希望的微光。比喻非常微弱、但确实存在的积极迹象或可能性。
"Where we see glimmers of hope and trust in elected officials is at the local level, where young people can feel the intimate effect of actions being taken..."
摇摆不定的、善变的。（非正式）常用于描述政治倾向或观点变化快、不稳定的选民或群体。
"That is translating into their politics. I think it’s why this generation is as swingy as it’s shaping up to be."
将分散的人或事物聚集起来，尤指一个民族回归故土或一个团体重新汇聚。具有强烈的历史和文化意涵。
"There are a few other examples—Argentina, Israel in a certain sense, where it’s an ingathering that creates the nation—but this has defined us from the beginning."
一种如同恒温器般自动进行的反向调节反应。用于描述公共舆论在政策向左或向右摆动后，会自动产生相反方向的调整。
"When he comes into office, you have the kind of thermostatic counter-reaction to that, and opinions become more pro-immigration."
不必要的、无故的、且故意残忍的。强调这种行为既没有正当理由，也缺乏必要性，完全是出于恶意或冷酷。
"And when governments crack down, whether in the gratuitously cruel way of a Trump administration or even in a smarter, more targeted way, they say, well, look at all these cases of injustice, that doesn’t seem fair, let’s loosen up."
热情友好的、真诚的。常用于描述正式、礼貌但保留一定距离的社交互动。
"Chavez: Yes, Cordial. He knows I’m an anti-Trumper, but he also remembers me from the Reagan years, probably."
一种策略或生活方式，旨在最大化地追求和传达希望与积极愿景。这是一个新造的、非正式的合成词。
"I think part of the reason why they’re rejecting this is because they reject labels outright, going back to my earlier point, but they appreciate what he has brought: the energy, this sort of hope-maxing vibe that he campaigned on and is now serving with..."
共同谋划或参与阴谋的人。在此语境中，带有幽默和亲切感，指共同致力于某个事业（创办American Purpose）的伙伴。
"I’m joined by my good friend and colleague Francis Fukuyama, who is of course the founder of our co-conspirator American Purpose, among many, many other things."
源自马基雅维利哲学的一个核心概念，指一种男性化的、果敢的、充满活力和智慧的品格与才能，用于驾驭命运、实现政治目标和维护共和国。
"It really derives from Machiavelli’s understanding of virtù, which Machiavelli himself understood as a masculine virtue, but it was very, very different from the kind of toxic masculinity that is out there on the internet right now..."
一种以促进公共福祉、服务集体为目标的公民美德和精神特质。
"...how to rebuild a culture of public-spiritedness in an age of anti-establishment politics."
极其邪恶的、罪恶滔天的。此语境中用于夸张自嘲，指她年轻时“偷牌匾”的行为。
"And among my nefarious deeds as a young person, I stole the plaque from CREEP off the offices."
在原有基础上重新建立或创立，尤指在理念或制度层面进行根本性的重塑。
"But today I want us to think about what the nature of the threats to liberalism are today and, more importantly, how liberalism can try to refound itself."