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高跷——此处用于比喻机器人细长的支撑腿
"ATRIAS looked like a large microwave on stilts because it was only intended to demonstrate the physics of human walking and running."
微光，一丝若隐若现的迹象——此处指梦想初次显现的微弱征兆
"This was the first glimmer of achieving my dream;"
逐渐进入（某种状态或节奏），安稳地过渡到
"it still seemed natural, and even somehow alive, when it settled into a walking gait."
（机器人学中）机械操作，用末端执行器抓取和移动物体的能力
"combine locomotion and manipulation to move through the world and interact with it as people do."
组织层面的，涉及机构结构与管理的
"the barriers to progress shifted from scientific to engineering and organizational,"
生物力学，研究生物体运动与受力规律的学科
"we began with a theory derived from decades of work in biomechanics:"
将理论付诸实践
"We put theory into practice by building the bipedal robot ATRIAS—"
天真，幼稚——此处指创业者对困难严重性缺乏认知的那种必要的盲目乐观
"This combination of ambition and naivete is necessary for anyone to found a new company—how hard could it be?"
弥合差距，在两种状态之间建立过渡
"a startup company seemed like the way to bridge the gap from a one-off research concept to an actual robotic product."
笨重的，体积庞大而难以操控的
"But the robot is heavy and bulky, lacking the graceful natural motion of its predecessors,"
优雅——此处特指以最简约束解决物理难题的那种精妙与克制
"I seek a mastery of motion, achieved through devices designed to navigate the constraints of physics with elegance."
两足行走的，双足的
"We put theory into practice by building the bipedal robot ATRIAS—short for "Assume The Robot Is A Sphere,""
（此处隐喻）档案；承载并保存历史记录的载体
"It becomes a living archive, a cultural inheritance, and a record of patient labor gathered into a single, astonishing form."
放弃；舍弃（本可保留之物）
"Every removed shoot or bud sacrifices one possibility so that another may flourish. The plant that visitors see in the autumn is composed not only of what was cultivated, but also of what was deliberately relinquished along the way."
交织；紧密缠绕在一起
"As revealed in this piece, plants and humans are intertwined across generations and cultures in ways that often go unnoticed."
关键的；起枢纽作用的
"A pivotal chapter came when plant explorer John Creech traveled to Japan in 1956 on a collecting expedition co-sponsored by Longwood and the United States Department of Agriculture."
学徒期；师从实践的学习过程
"It is a story of apprenticeship, patience, and cultivation."
顶点；高潮；达到最终完成的阶段
"There is seasonal time, as the chrysanthemum reaches its culmination in autumn."
短暂的；转瞬即逝的
"Yet like any plant, the artform of a chrysanthemum is not static. Its perfection is both changing and ephemeral."
（此处）与……协商、周旋；在不可完全控制的条件中寻求平衡
"The horticulturist who trains it is not imposing a finished image but negotiating with a living form whose future can be influenced but never completely controlled."
（此处引申义）可辨识的；可被读解出来的
"The finished chrysanthemum makes those largely invisible choices momentarily legible."
壮观场面；引人注目的公共展示
"In Japan, chrysanthemums came to signify autumn, renewal, refined taste, and imperial authority, while exhibitions devoted to them became spaces in which horticulture, artistic composition, seasonal observance, and public spectacle converged."
同步性；同时发生的一致状态
"The deeper achievement is the synchrony."
上屋（日本传统花园中为展示菊花而搭建的临时木制棚屋）
"Each November at Shinjuku Gyoen, formal plantings are still displayed in temporary wooden shelters, or uwaya, arranged along the paths of the traditional garden."
（植物学）侧生的；从侧面长出的
"Through a process known as disbudding, competing lateral buds are removed from each stem, leaving a single terminal bud to develop."
（此处带反讽）不可避免的；仿佛天然如此的
"The plant appears complete and inevitable, almost as if it had naturally assumed its vast, symmetrical form."
（植物）萎蔫；因缺水而变软下垂
"More than 4,000 ties may be used over the course of training, and stems may be temporarily allowed to wilt when greater flexibility is needed to position them without breaking."
轮台（日本菊花栽培中用于支撑单朵花并调节朝向的金属丝支架）
"Each developing flower is fitted with an individual wire support, called a rindai, which bears the weight of the bloom and allows horticulturists to orient it precisely within the dome."
疏蕾；摘除侧芽以集中养分供给主花蕾
"Through a process known as disbudding, competing lateral buds are removed from each stem, leaving a single terminal bud to develop."
多样性；众多；多重性
"The blossoms rise in concentric rows from the edge of the display toward its crown, creating an impression of abundance so extravagant that it seems possible only through multiplicity."
汇聚；向同一点集中
"Beneath the dome, hundreds of branches converge toward a single stem and root system."
同心的；以同一中心向外扩展的
"The blossoms rise in concentric rows from the edge of the display toward its crown, creating an impression of abundance so extravagant that it seems possible only through multiplicity."
（此处）极度丰盛的；铺张到近乎不真实的
"The blossoms rise in concentric rows from the edge of the display toward its crown, creating an impression of abundance so extravagant that it seems possible only through multiplicity."
（植物）营养生长的；处于营养生长阶段（尚未开花）的
"Artificial light interrupts the long autumn nights, keeping the chrysanthemums vegetative as horticulturists pinch the growing tips, encouraging one stem to divide into two, then four, until reaching over one thousand stems."
（多种事物）交汇；同时汇聚于一点
"In Japan, chrysanthemums came to signify autumn, renewal, refined taste, and imperial authority, while exhibitions devoted to them became spaces in which horticulture, artistic composition, seasonal observance, and public spectacle converged."
（园艺）摘心；掐去生长点以促成分枝
"Artificial light interrupts the long autumn nights, keeping the chrysanthemums vegetative as horticulturists pinch the growing tips, encouraging one stem to divide into two, then four, until reaching over one thousand stems."
大掬い（日本菊花'千朵盛开'造型的栽培技法名称，意为'大规模栽培'）
"The Japanese name for the Thousand Bloom form is ōzukuri, commonly translated as “large cultivation.”"
多户合租房（英国法律术语：house in multiple occupation，指多人分租的住宅）
"Not just social scripts but monetary policies, mortgage terms, HMO (house in multiple occupation) legislation."
政策迷（痴迷于政策细节与专业知识的人，常含自嘲或轻蔑意味）
"My policy-wonk brain knew there were systems keeping us apart."
在极端困境中、临终之际、万不得已时
"In his play The Real Thing (1982), Tom Stoppard aptly defined love as 'Knowledge of each other … knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face.'"
逐渐减弱直至消失、不了了之
"For us, it took years of intentional conversations, initial enthusiasm from others that then petered out, bureaucratic wrangling, and research."
迷宫般地、曲折复杂地
"Having tested the concept, we embarked on a labyrinthically complex joint house-purchase."
保持镇定、咬牙坚持（在压力下不退缩）
"If living with others was the answer, surely it shouldn't be this difficult. We held our nerve."
被威吓、被喋喋不休地训斥（带有居高临下的说教意味）
"This project finds faint echoes in the self-improvement, self-development, self-optimisation we are all constantly hectored into…"
原子化（社会关系瓦解为孤立个体的过程）
"Surely there was something between atomisation – what the philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'buffered self' – and hierarchical, authoritarian community; between girl-boss and trad-wife."
（地面）剧烈颠簸、翻腾不已（比喻环境动荡不安）
"The need to be part of a thick web of humans who would not play a passing role in each other's lives but commit to costly mutual care felt urgent as the ground bucked and roiled beneath our feet."
不言自明的老生常谈（虽真实但已陈腐的说法）
"It is a truism that early parenthood is isolating and relentless, but does it have to be?"
互惠、相互性（双方对等的给予与回报）
"You can have personal autonomy, privacy and endless choice; you can outsource most of your needs to the market rather than navigate complex non-transactional relationships with other people that tie you into reciprocity…"
有害的、有毒害影响的
"Porousness tends to be framed as deleterious to Project Self."
社群主义（强调社群价值高于个人权利的哲学立场）
"Still, all the intelligent analysis and critique never quite seemed to lead to progressive action, but instead to a conservative turn that half-appealed in its communitarianism and rooted localism, but not in its approach to women and 'outsiders'."