Vocabulary

难以捉摸的；难以定义或理解的。在本句中用来描述人类生命整体的品质。

"It is elusive and intimate, slight and immense, fragile and astonishing."

多孔的存在者；指人类并非孤立、封闭的笛卡尔式主体，而是像海绵一样，被外部世界（包括文化、自然、宇宙）渗透、影响和塑造的存在。

"We are embedded in that cosmic context, “porous beings immersed in the world,” rather than Cartesian subjects holding shifting views of the object-world."

显示，表明（某种品质、感觉或状态）。比“shows”或“indicates”更文雅、更具预示性。

"And maybe a couple of embroidered cushions—something that bespeaks care, art, beauty, intimacy, and renders our austere conceptual spaces more habitable."

古希腊语“καλόν”的音译，意为“美”、“高贵”、“卓越”；在此哲学语境中，它特指一种不仅限于感官，还能通过灵魂之眼感知的、闪耀着光辉、激发欲望和赞美的品质。

"she discovered in the ancient Greek concept of the kalon the right term to capture her ascetic's nobility."

典范，楷模。在此语境中，指乔治·艾略特是写作方式和哲学理念的完美例子。

"In bridging life writing and philosophy here, George Eliot remains Carlisle’s exemplar."

（社会、文化或生态的）环境，背景。在此语境中，指一个生命所嵌入其中的整个物理、文化、历史和宇宙脉络。

"Her framing for this path is a discussion of the term “milieu.”"

（扑克术语）进入牌局所需的最低赌注；在此语境中，意为“最基本的条件”、“不言自明的前提”或“理所当然拥有的事物”。

"It is table stakes for the religious believer or the artist (or the person in love) to agree that the discursive mind is not all we have and that our most important experiences are not reducible to understanding."

（这些报告）是引发思考的刺激物，而非精确的描绘；是促成变化的催化剂，而非定论。

"Those reports were provocations, not portraits, catalysts, not claims."

表达了类似观点；发出了类似声音。这是一个常见的比喻性习语。

"Stanley Cavell struck a similar note in older reflections on Thoreau."

禁欲者；修行者。指通过克己、苦行和独居等方式追求精神境界或宗教目标的人。

"One involves her youthful trip to the Himalayan region of India, where she encountered an ascetic from a nearby village."

推演式的、推理性的心智；指那种依靠逻辑、概念和理性分析来理解世界的思维方式。它与直觉、冥想或非理性的体验相对。

"It is table stakes for the religious believer or the artist (or the person in love) to agree that the discursive mind is not all we have and that our most important experiences are not reducible to understanding."

动物标本剥制师；在此语境中，比喻将鲜活、动态的体验固定、僵化，以便像展览标本一样进行分析的行为。

"The last thing we should want to do with accounts of mystical or transcendent or contemplative experiences is send them to the taxidermist and mount them for inspection."

绝对的爱，不妥协的爱。在此语境中，指主人公对她的选择的完全、无条件的奉献。破折号后的“but for what?”是文本中的自我质疑。

"It felt like “uncompromising love—but for what?”"

被自身的恐惧所限制。此处，用“bounded”来形容自我被狭隘的（通常也是自私的）关注点所限制。

"And if we are thinking of a movement beyond the smaller self—bounded by its own fears, attachments and defensive patterns of thinking, entrenched by the habit of saying “I”—then Spinozism, by illuminating and pursuing this movement, is a philosophy of transcendence."

身体消瘦、状况不佳（常用于动物健康评估）

""The teeth are overgrown, and the animal is in poor flesh," the message read."

（两个问题）在AI领域交汇集中

"Now both questions converge on silicon."

宁可（在方向上）过度也绝不冒险不足

"Given the asymmetric consequences of being wrong — either denying moral status to conscious beings or granting it to unconscious mimics — erring toward consideration is the safer ethical bet."

对认知局限的谦逊态度（承认自己可能不知道）

"As we are forced into this new kind of epistemic humility, we will have to make choices about how to treat them."

（思想上）艰难挣扎、苦思冥想

"For decades, neuroscientists have studied how brains perceive, remember and pay attention without ever closing the gap to subjective experience. And for just as long, we have wrestled with how to treat creatures whose inner lives remain hidden from us."

半开玩笑地，并非当真地（通常带有讽刺意味）

"The "easy problems," a term coined tongue-in-cheek by the philosopher David Chalmers in 1994, include most of what neuroscientists study when they investigate consciousness."

感官经验的独特主观特质（哲学专用术语）

"Philosophers call this subjective character of experience 'qualia.' The umami of steak. The pain of heartbreak. The particular way it feels to be you, right now, reading these words."

雏形；尚未发展完全的早期形态

"One might argue that having distressing conversations ranks low among possible harms, but the principle is the competence standard in embryonic form."

与……相似或对应（非字面意义上的押韵）

"The moral uncertainty that comes with this rhymes with critical questions."

（比喻）等待最终结局的过渡状态；炼狱

"I put the body into a clear ziplock bag and the bag into a refrigerator below the table — a purgatory where carcasses wait to be incinerated."

窃贼统治，腐败政府（指将政府视作一个窃取国家财富的犯罪组织）

"In a reality of flawed political institutions, however, concentrated economic power is bound to translate into exactly the kind of corruption and kleptocracy that we see flourishing under the second Trump administration."

（公司）上市，首次公开发行（IPO）

"It should also give one pause that SpaceX’s float on Nasdaq was preceded by an agreement to modify the exchange’s underwriting and index rules in SpaceX’s favor..."

纯粹的，不掺杂质的（此处指没有受到任何外部干预的、完全自由的市场）

"...which speaks to how far removed we might be from a world of unadulterated free markets."

巨大的，庞大的（比 'gigantic' 或 'enormous' 更具文学性和夸张色彩）

"...narrow segment of gargantuan private actors."

（观念、习俗、体制的）根深蒂固，确立

"...America’s biggest challenge in the next generation is to avoid the entrenchment of a system of state capitalism with U.S. characteristics rather than Chinese."

华丽而俗气的，花哨的（此处形容白宫特使的敛财行为明目张胆、毫不掩饰，带有贬义）

"Yes, there is the gaudy, scandalous self-dealing of White House envoys such as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, obscuring the difference between private interests and official government policy."

敲诈，勒索（政府利用权力迫使私营部门上缴利益，作为获得经营许可的交换条件）

"There is Trump’s exercise of arbitrary power in setting tariff rates, or extorting the private sector as a precondition for clearing regulatory and antitrust obstacles set by the federal government."

特质，癖好（通常指某人特有的、古怪的习性。此处作者用以淡化个人因素，强调制度性问题）

"America’s drift toward state capitalism, however, is deeper and more lasting than just Trump’s idiosyncrasies and corruption."

令人不安的，令人困惑的（程度比 upsetting 或 worrying 更深，更强调一种打乱原有认知或计划的焦虑感）

"Those flaws were real, which is why it is so disconcerting to see the rise—largely under the radar—of an American version of state capitalism."

僵化的，停滞不前的（指经济或体制因缺乏活力而变得僵硬）

"Before 1989, there was the sclerotic shortage economy generated by Soviet-style economic planning."

（贬义）温情的、软绵绵的（此处用以讽刺欧洲资本主义，意指其注重社会福利，显得“温和友善”，缺乏竞争力）

"More recently, there was Europe’s “cuddly” capitalism, and China’s state-run version of it—all standing in sharp contrast to America’s “cutthroat” variety."

糟蹋，使一塌糊涂（指把好事情搞砸，此处用于形容政策执行得非常糟糕、不连贯）

"Consider Trump’s oftentimes confusing policies on semiconductors, mangling long-term strategic consideration in pursuit of short-term revenue objectives."

残酷的，竞争惨烈的（指资本主义那种毫无情面、你死我活的竞争模式）

"...all standing in sharp contrast to America’s “cutthroat” variety."

（巧妙地）获得，将…据为己有（此处指美国政府通过持有企业股份，获得了巨大的纸面收益）

"Washington also pocketed a five-year warrant for another 5 percent of the company..."

促成，推动（政府像助产士一样，帮助并催生一个行业）

"And there is an old American tradition—from the transcontinental railroad to Operation Warp Speed—of the state midwifing industries the market alone would underprovide."

支撑，作为...的基础（比 'support' 或 'underpin' 力度更强，强调是底层结构的支撑）

"Conversely, one must worry about the outsized power of the enormous private sector institutions that undergird the ongoing technological transformation—and with it the future of our democracy."

正式废除（法律、权利、协议或条约）

"allowing Trump to abrogate Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals and others;"

牵强的；难以置信的；不太可能发生的

"going out of your way to enable the president’s legally far-fetched or authoritarian pet projects."

法官所展现出的超越党派利益、着眼于维护整个宪法体系和司法机构长远利益的政治智慧与领导力

"This kind of politically-minded judging can be thought of as judicial statesmanship."

指一个组织或个人对另一方的决定不加质疑地、形式化地批准或认可

"The Court is not a rubber stamp for Trump."

完全支持某人或某方，尤其指为了不正当利益而偏袒

"All of the above refutes the notion that the Court’s conservative Republican majority is in the tank for Trump."

在巨大的压力下崩溃、无法承受而失败

"If the system didn’t crack under the pressure of this year’s high-stakes cases, there’s reason to hope it never will."