Vocabulary

超精确的；达到极高精度的

"A simple tweak to a common quantum system could unlock powerful new quantum states for ultra-precise sensing and future quantum technologies."

微调；对系统或装置进行小的、精细的调整或修改

"A simple tweak to a common quantum system could unlock powerful new quantum states for ultra-precise sensing and future quantum technologies."

梦想；对未来卓越成就的理想化愿景或目标

"The fact that such simple ingredients can generate such complex and useful quantum states gives us hope that even before we reach the dream of a general all-purpose quantum computer..."

稳定此状态；通过外部控制使系统维持在所需的量子态

"The team found that their relatively simple setup can stabilize this state."

(在此语境下) 奇特且不常见的；非标准的，具有异域风情的引申义：非常规的

"...eliminating the need for specialized or exotic measurement methods."

消除；完全移除（某种需求、障碍或问题）

"Another advantage is that the information stored in these quantum states can be extracted using standard Ramsey measurement techniques, eliminating the need for specialized or exotic measurement methods."

韧性；从困难、干扰或不利变化中迅速恢复的能力

"Normally, entanglement is very fragile. This approach has some amazing resilience."

脆弱的；容易损坏或崩溃的

"Normally, entanglement is very fragile. This approach has some amazing resilience."

鲁棒性；系统在外界扰动或错误存在下维持其功能的能力

"Use entanglement to build an exquisitely sensitive sensor but also have robustness to arbitrarily large amounts of noise."

极其；以非常精致、灵敏或完美的方式

"Use entanglement to build an exquisitely sensitive sensor but also have robustness to arbitrarily large amounts of noise."

（陈述或对比）鲜明的、不加修饰的、赤裸裸的

"That's a very stark explanation."

脱离正轨、失去控制、变得混乱无序

"This is completely off the rails and is a violation of laws, of court orders, of congressional intent..."

（比喻）基石、支柱、核心要素

"...so too does international development need a separate and unique kind of organizational structure to provide the third leg of the foreign policy stool."

被撕碎、被彻底摧毁、被瓦解

"That entire system was ripped apart in 2025."

浪费时间做别人已经做过的事、重复发明（没有意义）

"...but is reinventing the wheel and trying to improvise systems that used to exist."

强有力的、稳固的、经得起考验的（指系统、战略或回应）

"...my job was to set up a robust U.S. government response to the Ebola outbreak, and I was just stopped at every single turn."

被强行推入、突然被置于（某种不情愿或不习惯的境地）

"I was thrust into the top official of global health role for the agency and my job was to set up a robust U.S. government response..."

令人震惊的、难以置信的（通常指数量或影响巨大）

"We...saved the lives of 92 million people over the last 20 years alone, which is a staggering impact for a relatively shoestring budget."

鼓励、促进、培养（某种情感、状态或行为）

"...less likely to foster dependency in ways that it had."

极少的资金、微薄的预算

"...which is a staggering impact for a relatively shoestring budget."

逐渐终止、废止（一个计划、法律或组织）

"The administration gave various rationales to justify the sunsetting of USAID –- accusations of political bias, waste, fraud and abuse."

首要的、最优秀的、第一位的

"...a timely book with a title drawn from Elon Musk's plans for the premier U.S. foreign aid agency..."

（比喻）将……粉碎、摧毁（尤指机构或声誉）

"...Into the Woodchipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID."

被阻碍、被妨碍（使其无法进展或成功）

"It was Enrich's job to manage the U.S. response. He says he was stymied at every turn."

（系统性地）废除、拆解（一个组织或机构）

"The Trump administration was dismantling USAID, and an Ebola outbreak was spreading in Uganda."

被称为，被称作（尤指带有特定称谓或标签）

"In the winter of 2013-2014, the strong winds of the jet stream shifted north, allowing a mass of warm water dubbed “the blob” to swell across more than 1500 kilometres of the north Pacific Ocean."

有目的的，蓄意的（指行为背后有明确的意图或目标）

"“This is purposeful to try and remove our eyes and ears in the ocean,” he says of the OOI dismantling."

全面的、彻底的改变（影响范围极广的变革）

"Edward Dever at the Oregon State University, who manages the OOI array off the coast of Washington and Oregon, says the dismantling of OOI and the proposed grant rule are both part of sweeping changes that would “weaken peer review and politicise NSF-funded science”."

政治化（使原本不属于政治领域的事物带有政治色彩或受政治因素影响）

"Edward Dever at the Oregon State University, who manages the OOI array off the coast of Washington and Oregon, says the dismantling of OOI and the proposed grant rule are both part of sweeping changes that would “weaken peer review and politicise NSF-funded science”."

发动，进行（战争、战役或有组织的活动）

"But it comes as the Trump administration wages what Gretchen Goldman at the Union of Concerned Scientists calls an “attack on science”."

削弱；暗中破坏（通常指不知不觉或逐渐地损害某事物的基础或有效性）

"Some worry it could even undercut Argo, a vital network of almost 4000 descending instrument floats across the global ocean, half of which are provided by the US."

削减；撤销；倒退（指政策、资助或进展的撤销）

"Scientists fear the dismantling of OOI is the start of a massive rollback of US ocean research funding that could see the discontinuation of OSNAP."

账目；记录（这里指灾害损失的官方统计数据）

"Weather and climate disasters did $183 billion of damage in 2024. (The US government discontinued this tally in 2025.)"

阻碍；妨碍（使某事进展缓慢或困难）

"It will also hinder efforts to monitor a possible weakening in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) that keeps Europe temperate, as well as the effects of an imminent El Niño."

降低；削弱（程度、重要性或准确性）

"The removal of most OOI moorings will diminish the accuracy of weather forecasting, including precipitation patterns influencing the record drought in the western US."

藻华；水华（水体中藻类快速、大量繁殖的现象）

"The mooring data helped show the blob, which repeated in 2019 and may be happening more frequently due to climate change, spurred toxic algal blooms that closed California’s $60 million Dungeness crab fishery for the season."

刺激；促进；引发了（某种不好的事件或发展）

"The mooring data helped show the blob, which repeated in 2019 and may be happening more frequently due to climate change, spurred toxic algal blooms that closed California’s $60 million Dungeness crab fishery for the season."

拆除；废除（系统地拆解一个系统、组织或网络）

"Scientists fear the dismantling of OOI is the start of a massive rollback of US ocean research funding that could see the discontinuation of OSNAP."

迫在眉睫的；即将发生的（尤指不祥之事）

"It will also hinder efforts to monitor a possible weakening in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) that keeps Europe temperate, as well as the effects of an imminent El Niño."

（气候）温和的；温带的，温度适中的

"It will also hinder efforts to monitor a possible weakening in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) that keeps Europe temperate, as well as the effects of an imminent El Niño."

降水模式（指特定地区降雨、降雪等天气现象的规律和分布）

"The removal of most OOI moorings will diminish the accuracy of weather forecasting, including precipitation patterns influencing the record drought in the western US."

被系泊的；被固定的（通过缆绳或锚将船只或漂浮物固定在某一位置）

"Floating instruments moored to the seabed off Alaska, Washington and Oregon alerted scientists and the fishing industry to the arrival of this water, which was up to 4°C hotter than normal."

（这里指）一大团难以定义形状的物体；水团

"In the winter of 2013-2014, the strong winds of the jet stream shifted north, allowing a mass of warm water dubbed “the blob” to swell across more than 1500 kilometres of the north Pacific Ocean."

因某事物令人惊叹或出人意料而感到惊讶和欣赏；带有惊叹和喜悦的意味

"Try doing what you can, and marvel at how the other person changes as a result, as opposed to coming up with the list of how you would like the other person to change."

工作中的烦恼或困境（带有情感上的沉重感和亟待解决的急迫性）

"Fixable, TED’s new podcast, is here to do just that — to fix the problems of everyday people who call in with their work woes."

公司或组织为了提升效率、削减成本或调整战略而进行的系统性结构重组，通常涉及部门合并、人员重新分配或管理层调整

"Nai’a, a caller who struggled with receiving recognition after a major reorganization paired her with a new and preoccupied boss."

心思被其他事务占据，因而无法充分关注当前的人或事；此处指老板因为忙于其他事务而无暇给予下属应有的关注

"after a major reorganization paired her with a new and preoccupied boss"

对某人贡献、成就或存在的正式或非正式的认可与肯定；此处特指上级对下属工作的知晓和肯定

"but the lack of acknowledgement and encouragement — and even awareness — of her work was causing her to lose motivation"

事情发生后仍然存在的、残留的（情感、影响等）；这里指尽管事件已经过去，但仍然残留在心中的不满情绪

"Sometimes the barrier to showing up as a great collaborator with your manager can be that there’s still some residual frustration about the situation."

一种主动探索和理解他人处境的求知欲和开放心态；在文中被视为一种能够取代评判的积极心态和工作策略

"Frances and Anne also shared this strategy with her to practice: Choose curiosity over judgment."