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不大可能的、难以置信的（在此指'超出常规叙事逻辑的'）
"Having turned his entire life around to follow his improbable Turkish lover to Istanbul, Baldwin reflects:"
（无意识地）暴露、泄露（内心的真实状态）
"Our language betrays our self-betrayals: We speak of finding love, as if it were an undiscovered eighth continent or a habitable world in another solar system..."
（河流入海的）河口湾、三角湾
"Never having imagined that love would make of the Harlem River an estuary to the Bosphorus, Baldwin finds himself reckoning with the broader meaning of it all:"
损毁（外观），涂污（此处指示威者破坏政府建筑外观）
"Bolsonaro supporters protested in Brasilia, invading and defacing government buildings—Brazil’s version of January 6."
非受迫性失误，低级失误（此处指政治家自找的、本可避免的错误）
"He didn’t help himself through numerous unforced errors,"
替身候选人，替补候选人（代替被禁止参选者出战的候选人）
"Lula was barred from running in 2018, and his stand-in candidate lost to Bolsonaro."
拉拢，争取（此处指博索纳罗讨好农业企业和福音派选民以获取支持）
"In 2018, Bolsonaro courted agribusiness and the evangelical community."
被撤销的，被宣告无效的（指卢拉的腐败定罪因程序问题被推翻）
"Lula, meanwhile, spent 580 days in prison on a corruption conviction that would be annulled a few years later on procedural grounds."
深陷于……（指陷入丑闻、困境等难以脱身）
"got mired in corruption scandals, broke the country’s budgeting rules,"
躲避，逃避（此处指政客忙于回避腐败调查）
"Politicians who are too busy in-fighting and dodging corruption investigations"
为……创造条件，为……铺路（此处指当前局面为未来新局外人竞选埋下伏笔）
"Which sets the stage for new outsider populists to run in 2030 against whatever mess is left behind after the next four years."
反现任的，反在任者的（指选民强烈反对现有执政者的政治情绪）
"It was Jair Bolsonaro, a backbench member of Congress, who took advantage of the anti-incumbent moment to present himself as a political outsider"
滑稽可笑地，小丑般地（此处贬义描述博索纳罗在社交媒体上的荒唐行为）
"broke the country’s budgeting rules, and behaved clownishly on social media."
（为集中票源而）退选、让路（此处指众多潜在候选人纷纷退出以免分散选票）
"While much of Brazil’s right would have preferred a more establishment candidate, the field largely cleared to avoid splitting the vote."
决选，第二轮选举（首轮无人过半时举行的最终对决投票）
"Brazilians will now head for a runoff election between the two men on October 25."
现状（此处指民众不满的现有政治与社会秩序）
"Despite being a country where citizens say they are angry at the status quo and want change,"
停滞的，僵化的（此处形容巴西政治长期没有实质性变化）
"The country’s politics, in other words, is stagnant."
庇护主义，恩庇政治（政治人物以利益换取选票与忠诚的体制）
"Lula’s critics say his left-wing policies of unsustainable social spending and support for clientelism (and outright corruption) came home to roost."
（恶果）自食其果，报应临头（指过往行为最终招致负面后果）
"Lula’s critics say his left-wing policies of unsustainable social spending and support for clientelism (and outright corruption) came home to roost."
反复翻炒，老调重弹（此处指巴西政坛不断重复相同的政治斗争）
"the country will end up rehashing the same old fights it has suffered through for years."
地方性的，普遍存在的（此处指腐败已成为巴西政治体制中根深蒂固的现象）
"By then, the scandal had become so widespread that it touched nearly every corner of Brazil’s political system, and made corruption feel endemic."
后座议员的（指无党内要职、影响力有限的普通议员）
"It was Jair Bolsonaro, a backbench member of Congress, who took advantage of the anti-incumbent moment"
沉重的锚，拖累（比喻使政府举步维艰的核心问题）
"More than anything else, it’s this issue that will become the anchor weighing down the next government."
现任者，在职者（此处指寻求连任的现任总统卢拉）
"He beat incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—known universally as Lula—on 45 percent,"
爆冷获胜，意外取胜（此处指卢拉若获胜将是出人意料的逆转）
"if the aging Lula pulls off an upset and wins,"
转瞬即逝的；短暂的（在此形容以色列政党如朝生暮死般迅速出现又消失）
"Even the most dedicated students of Israeli politics have abandoned all hope of remembering the names of its political parties; as they sprout in the morning, then merge, splinter, and defect in the afternoon, or evaporate by nightfall."
先锋；先驱（在此指以色列是全球犹太复国主义事业的先锋国家）
"The issue of Haredi military service is worth lingering on for a moment as it stands at the core of the identity-based fissure between the contending camps and is by far the anti-Netanyahu bloc's most salient argument for his replacement."
从前的；昔日的（在此指甘茨曾是Eizenkot的党内同僚，但现已不再如此）
"Current opinion polls suggest a stalemate, with neither the perennial Netanyahu nor his maiden chief opponent, and Gantz's erstwhile party member, Gadi Eizenkot, likely to secure more than 52-55 seats for their respective blocs."
逐渐消磨；碾碎（在此指内塔尼亚胡通过持续消耗对手，将甘茨从政治上有影响力变为无足轻重）
"If he can force a stalemate, Netanyahu remains interim PM after October 27 and can then use all his skill to set the agenda, divide and rule, and take the country into another electoral round in April 2027 (then another and another still if he needs to) until he does to Eizenkot what he did to the now politically defunct Benny Gantz—grind him down to irrelevance."
角色阵容；（喻）一群人物（在此指以色列政坛中层出不穷的各类政治人物）
"In its fragmentation, mercuriality, conspiracism, and cast of fantastical characters, contemporary Israeli politics makes Game of Thrones look like The Golden Girls."
挖走；挖角（在此指内塔尼亚胡可能从对方阵营拉拢一个政党加入自己的联盟）
"Lastly, in the cauldron of post-elections coalition negotiations, Netanyahu might poach a party from the opposing camp, for example Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, or Naftali Bennett's Beyahad."
腐蚀性地；侵蚀性地（在此形容对选举信任的破坏是一种缓慢而深层的侵蚀）
"Disruption may also come in the form of a breakdown of trust in the electoral process or the announced outcome, either as the result of active subversion or, more corrosively, a large proportion of the Israeli public coming to believe that the election was 'stolen' by the opposing camp and is therefore illegitimate."
阻碍；使无法进行（在此指破坏行为需严重到足以阻碍大部分地区的选举进程）
"The disruption would have to be widespread and debilitating enough to stymie the process in large parts of this small country."
点燃；激起（在此指一月六日式暴力事件的'原材料'已具备，可能在10月27日被'点燃'）
"The raw material for an Israeli version of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol is in place and may or may not be kindled on October 27."
长期存在的；反复出现的（在此修饰内塔尼亚胡作为'常青'候选人反复参选的现象）
"Current opinion polls suggest a stalemate, with neither the perennial Netanyahu nor his maiden chief opponent, and Gantz's erstwhile party member, Gadi Eizenkot, likely to secure more than 52-55 seats for their respective blocs."
分裂；碎片化（在此指政党如碎片般从原有组织中分裂出去）
"Even the most dedicated students of Israeli politics have abandoned all hope of remembering the names of its political parties; as they sprout in the morning, then merge, splinter, and defect in the afternoon, or evaporate by nightfall."
首次的；处子般的（在此修饰Eizenkot作为首次竞选总理的主要对手）
"Current opinion polls suggest a stalemate, with neither the perennial Netanyahu nor his maiden chief opponent, and Gantz's erstwhile party member, Gadi Eizenkot, likely to secure more than 52-55 seats for their respective blocs."
易燃的；（喻）一触即发的、极易引发冲突的（在此形容以色列国内高度紧张、随时可能爆发的社会氛围）
"After three years of a multifront war that is essentially ongoing—Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, none of which are resolved—and amidst a combustible internal atmosphere, however, disruption is not a hypothetical and could come from multiple sources."
裂缝；分歧（在此指联盟内部的裂痕和分歧）
"Yet unless it can be quickly enlarged—by poaching a few members of the opposition or bringing in another party—a narrow Change Government will be immediately vulnerable to internal fissures and the risk of defections."
大锅；（喻）沸腾的漩涡、混乱激烈的局面（在此形容选举后联盟谈判的激烈和混乱）
"Lastly, in the cauldron of post-elections coalition negotiations, Netanyahu might poach a party from the opposing camp, for example Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, or Naftali Bennett's Beyahad."
解围之神；突如其来的救星（指一个意外出现、人为解决困境的力量或事件）
"Barring such a deus ex machina, the prospect of a broad centrist coalition increases dramatically if Netanyahu exits the political scene."
防火墙；（喻）不可逾越的政治分界线（在此指亲内塔尼亚胡与反内塔尼亚胡阵营之间不可跨越的界限）
"Which brings us to the final scenario: the dissolution, or at least temporary suspension or blurring, of the pro-Bibi/anti-Bibi firewall that defines all other scenarios, and the emergence of some form of broad centrist coalition."
一厢情愿地预测（指带着主观愿望而非客观分析做出的预测，在此讽刺Channel 14对利库德集团选情的偏乐观报道）
"Channel 14—roughly speaking, Israel's version of Fox News—wishcasts exactly this, with Likud winning 31-32 seats, rather than the 20-22 recorded by other pollsters."
显著性；突出性；重要性（在此指选举在当前以色列公共话语中的突出地位）
"The most common term used in the country these days to describe the salience of the upcoming election is 'B'hirot Goraliot'—literally, fate-defining elections."
反复无常；多变（在此形容以色列政治的变幻莫测、难以预测）
"In its fragmentation, mercuriality, conspiracism, and cast of fantastical characters, contemporary Israeli politics makes Game of Thrones look like The Golden Girls."
霸权的；主导性的（在此指以色列工党曾经在以色列政治中的绝对主导地位）
"If the polls are correct, Eizenkot can rely on 54 seats—23 for his own Yashar party, 12 from Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid's combined Beyahad party, 10 from Yair Golan's The Democrats—remnants of the old, once hegemonic, Israeli Labor Party."
阴谋论思维；阴谋主义（指一种将政治事件归因于秘密阴谋的思维模式和文化倾向）
"In its fragmentation, mercuriality, conspiracism, and cast of fantastical characters, contemporary Israeli politics makes Game of Thrones look like The Golden Girls."
玻璃纸；（喻）透明的包装、华丽的外衣（在此比喻弥赛亚主义被包装在看似光鲜的外表下）
"To the nationalist-religious camp, a Netanyahu victory would mean vindication and license wrapped in messianic cellophane."
具有重大影响的；举足轻重的（在此语境中指选举结果将深远影响以色列的国家走向）
"Israelis will soon vote in the most consequential election of their lives."
本体论的；存在意义上的（在此指以色列人对其国家存在根基和集体身份的深层安全感）
"For secular-liberal Israelis the loss would also mean diminished faith in the capacity of the state—a state they fight for and disproportionately fund through their taxes—to provide long-term physical and ontological security to their children."