Loading...
Loading...
绰号、代号或非正式的称呼名称
"Once the synthetic cells were created, her students and others started calling them Adamala cells — a moniker she hated."
具有转折性意义的重大事件；划分新阶段的关键节点
"I think it will prove to be a watershed event for the synthetic-cell field and biology in general."
通过巧妙的诱导或持续努力使（某事物）产生预期反应
"With such flexibility, this kind of synthetic cell could eventually be coaxed to create new materials, such as biofuels and drugs."
非凡的技艺或才华展示；令人叹为观止的杰作
"It is “a synthetic biology tour de force,” he said."
长期以来梦寐以求、极难达成的终极目标（源于传说中耶稣使用的圣杯，比喻追求的最高境界）
"“It’s a big step forward to this holy grail of making a living thing out of dead components,” said Sijbren Otto."
介于完全有序与完全混乱之间的临界状态，被认为是最适宜复杂系统演化的区域
"She needs to find the sweet spot between order and chaos, referencing the biochemist and complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman, who argues that biology works best at the “edge of chaos.”"
动手修修改改（通常指非正式、探索性地调整系统的某些部分）
"Since these cells were pieced together from scratch, and all the molecular parts were crafted in the lab, scientists can tinker with the system and switch components in and out."
使（金钱、资源、精力等）耗尽，逐渐流出
"Draining the Gold from Science"
（指决定、规则等）反复无常的，无定见的，变化莫测的
"...a federal appeals court ruled that the administration’s action was arbitrary, capricious, and likely to produce “irreparable harm.”"
（伤害、损失等）无法修复的，不可弥补的
"...a federal appeals court ruled that the administration’s action was arbitrary, capricious, and likely to produce “irreparable harm.”"
（抽象事物）发源，来自；从……散发出来
"Stretching beyond the worries of scientists, the proposed rule is part of a broader Trump administration strategy emanating from OMB."
（被）关闭；（使）停止运行（尤指企业、医院或大型项目）
"Among those to be shut down were clinical trials for promising treatments for cancer and dementia."
（桶或管道上的）龙头，阀门；比喻义：资金或资源的来源
"Important work requires sustained effort, and no researcher can keep a lab going if the spigot is turned on and off."
一片哗然，群情激愤，处于骚动状态
"The scientific community is in an uproar, with funding having stopped, then started, and now threatened."
（思想、文化或知识等的）相互促进，交融互通，交叉影响
"Cross-fertilization of work would dry up."
（尤指失控地）猛冲，疾驰，东倒西歪地行进
"Instead of building systematically, scientific research would careen from administration to administration, in a way that would inevitably harm America’s place in the research world."
不寻常的，非主流的，另类的（通常带有贬义或轻蔑）
"The decisions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the rise of his Make America Healthy Again movement show how some research get canceled and new, sometimes offbeat projects take their place."
激起，煽动（事端或暴力活动）
"Unmediated peer-to-peer connectivity has fomented rife division within the body politic rather than pulling it closer together."
（火葬用的）柴堆；（比喻）毁灭性的火焰或灾难
"What has added rocket fuel to the pyre is the participatory power of social media."
为（某种动机或情感）所驱使或激励
"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."
刺耳嘈杂的声音；不和谐的音调
"never has the need been greater for the counterbalance of impartial practices and institutions to sort out the cacophony of voices, the welter of conflicting interests and the deluge of contested information."
刺激，增强（欲望、兴趣等）
"a constitutional republic designed along these lines … would be the only way to curb the predatory appetites whetted when too much power is concentrated in any one place."
无法抵抗（某事物的）诱惑或魅力而屈从
"It was out of this worry over incipient aristocracy that, by the 1840s, most states, and ultimately the federal government, succumbed to the siren call of the democratic temper and implemented direct popular election of the upper houses as well as the assemblies, thus erasing the essential difference in functions that Adams thought necessary."
扩大……的权势、地位或财富；夸大
"For Calhoun, the whole point of a mixed constitutional republic was “to prevent any one interest, or combination of interests, from using the powers of government to aggrandize itself at the expense of the others.”"
（令人瞩目的）景象，场面（尤指壮观或动荡的）
"democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
过多的；过于丰富的（在此语境中用作反讽，指信息不是不够，而是太多，多到成为问题）
"In a world of overabundant information, national security threats are discovered at the intersection of data collection and counterintelligence."
作为审视/分析...的透镜/视角（一种学术性和比喻性表达，指用某事作为切入角度来理解另一个更大的主题）
"Matt Stoller reviews Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Flatiron Books, 2025), using the memoir as a lens through which to examine the evolution of Meta and the political economy of Big Tech."
利用；剥削（在此语境中指欺诈生态系统不正当地利用技术的开放性来获利，具有恶意性和寄生性）
"Americans face an increasingly sophisticated ecosystem of fraud that exploits technological openness faster than our political institutions can respond."
综合来看；综上所述（用于总结归纳前面讨论的多个观点，得出一个全面的结论）
"Taken together, these essays reveal that cybersecurity is no longer a question of defending corporate networks from hackers or maintaining counterintelligence procedures."
生态系统（被借用来比喻欺诈行为赖以生存和发展的庞大、复杂、相互关联的社会和技术环境）
"Americans face an increasingly sophisticated ecosystem of fraud that exploits technological openness faster than our political institutions can respond."
繁重的；成为负担的（在此语境中指为防范网络攻击而进行的投资让人感到沉重而费力）
"Advances in artificial intelligence have dramatically accelerated the scale and complexity of cybercrime, lowering barriers for attacks while increasing pressure on government and industry to invest in burdensome protections absent a federally coordinated strategy."
豁开的；洞开的（在此语境中指美国的数字漏洞非常巨大且暴露无遗，像张大的嘴一样）
"Despite these swelling challenges, many of the United States’ digital vulnerabilities are still gaping."
增强；补充（在此语境中指网络行动能够增强俄罗斯在常规战场上的硬实力）
"Russia’s attacks on the Ukrainian grid have demonstrated that cyber operations can augment hard power on the battlefield."
不受法律约束的；无法无天的（在此语境中指网络环境像没有法律的野蛮地带）
"Our critical infrastructure functions on half-century-old industrial systems that were not designed for a lawless and hostile cyber environment."
无法磨灭的；不可消除的（在此语境中指网络安全已成为现代生活一个无法摆脱的、持久的重要问题）
"Cybersecurity has become an indelible concern of contemporary life."
门槛；下限（在此语境中指“低于常规战争的层面”，强调网络空间被视为一个可以进行战略竞争而不触发全面军事冲突的临界点之下）
"Adversarial states view cyberspace as an arena for strategic competition below the threshold of conventional warfare."
变现；货币化（在此语境中指将原本不收费的个人数据转化成金钱收益的商业行为）
"Economic incentives encourage the collection and monetization of personal data despite the magnitude of associated risks."
令人敬畏的；强大的；难以应对的（在此语境中指中国的间谍能力极其强大，让对手感到畏惧和难以招架）
"China’s formidable espionage capabilities have been successfully directed at governments and businesses alike."
迫使我们发问；驱使我们去质疑（强调紧急状态的严重性，让我们不得不提出某个关键问题）
"Each of these emergencies compels us to ask whether our digital infrastructure is governed in the public interest or by exploitable commercial incentives misaligned with the common good."
与...不一致/错位（在此语境中指商业激励与公共利益之间不匹配，甚至背道而驰）
"Each of these emergencies compels us to ask whether our digital infrastructure is governed in the public interest or by exploitable commercial incentives misaligned with the common good."
永无止境的军备竞赛（比喻为争夺注意力而进行的激烈、不断升级的竞争）
"With so much money at stake, it is little wonder that the technology and infrastructure responsible for delivering these ads (“adtech”) is stuck in a perpetual arms race for human attention."
被尴尬地一分为二；笨拙地分裂成两部分
"The world of social media advertising, with which this article is principally concerned, is dominated by Meta, Google, to a lesser extent, X, and the awkwardly bifurcated ByteDance and “TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC."
广告技术；数字广告技术产业
"With so much money at stake, it is little wonder that the technology and infrastructure responsible for delivering these ads (“adtech”) is stuck in a perpetual arms race for human attention."
难以理解的；谜一般的；不可捉摸的
"The communications platform—whether an X doomscroll, an inscrutable Facebook newsfeed, or a short-form video treadmill of TikTok or YouTube Shorts—is just an inducement for users to hand over the data that makes the advertising work."
被集中输送到；被汇集
"Nearly $330 billion dollars will be funneled into online ads in 2026."
引诱物；诱因；激励
"The communications platform...is just an inducement for users to hand over the data that makes the advertising work."
在风险中；成败攸关
"With so much money at stake, it is little wonder that the technology and infrastructure responsible for delivering these ads (“adtech”) is stuck in a perpetual arms race for human attention."
使……准备好（此处指心理或认知上的准备）
"Most Americans are not primed to think of advertising as a national security concern."
利润丰厚的；赚钱的
"American eyes are by far its most lucrative target."
过时的，不再流行的，老派的
"Reading 'dark academia' books, no matter their literary merit, may one day seem as passé as wearing skinny jeans or a baker boy hat."