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（记忆）漂泊无依的、失去方向的
"Where has all that knowledge gone? It's adrift in her memory, bobbing here and there in a sea of chemical connections, where the big torch on the coast can't be seen—the big fire that guides us back to land, to our point of departure."
（此处指）拖网捕虾作业完成、使命已达
"It was unnerving not being able to remember if she'd showered, forgotten to take her medicine, left a pot on the stove, unable to see the fire on the hill to guide her back to the coast with a boat full of shrimp, trawling done, mission accomplished."
（记忆）被压抑的（心理学概念：被无意识地推入潜意识以逃避痛苦）
"The layering of past on past persists to the end, memory upon memory, through memories that become jumbled, distorted, blocked, recurrent or hidden, or that are repressed or shielded by an instinct for survival."
（答案等）不会出现的、无法得到的
"And because the answer wouldn't have been forthcoming, as the storm in her brain prevented any clarity of thought, she'd have uttered the words that marked the beginning of her Alzheimer's:"
被解开的、被破解的（此处指记忆像魔术一样，看似无法参透，实则有其机制）
"Memory is an unriddled magic trick."
（大脑）被淹没的、（信息、记忆等）大量涌入的
"She'd have lost herself in circular reasoning; a flood of images, synapses, commands and memories would have inundated her brain, making the familiar unfamiliar, resulting in a single question:"
（此处指像陀螺一样）东倒西歪地转来转去、跌跌撞撞地移动
"He won't remember how he used to careen around the living room like a spinning top, falling, getting back up, spinning again;"
卡波耶拉（巴西战舞），一种融合武术、舞蹈和音乐的巴西非裔文化表现形式
"He won't remember how he used to careen around the living room like a spinning top, falling, getting back up, spinning again; it wasn't till days later that we learned he was performing solo capoeira in the living room, having learned it at preschool."
（此处指记忆）涌动的、翻腾的、充满活力的
"A busy ebb and flow of lawyers, interns, defendants, witnesses, plaintiffs, police officers, prisoners, assistants, victims, and couples parting ways."
（此处为）葡萄牙语 por favor（请）的夸张英文口音拼写
"He would call her at home, with his unmistakable English accent: 'Eunice Paiva, porrrfa-vorrr.'"
年老的、衰老的（尤指因年老而记忆力衰退的）
"She was trying, at all costs, to be treated not as someone sick or demented, but as a person like anyone else, who, with age, is betrayed by memory, grows old, becomes forgetful, becomes senile, a little old lady."
该死的、被诅咒的（意大利语咒骂语）
"So had Transbrasil, it was all changing too quickly, the banks were becoming automated, now her newsletter from the São Paulo Lawyers Association came via email, instead of through the post on stapled newspaper, and the dratted, maledetto mouse wouldn't obey her! Damn it!"
（此处指法律上的）被保留的、被扣留的
"We hoped that, as was the practice, the judge would appoint a reliable legal expert to remove her civil rights."
（法律誓词）以资证明、特此为证
"On January 30, 2008, that muggy afternoon, in compliance with the law, in the Central Civil Court on Praça João Mendes, fourth floor, room 426 of the São Paulo State Court, first temporarily, and then permanently, the woman who had looked after me for 48 years would now be looked after by me. In witness whereof, I certify that the foregoing is true and accurate."
法律行话、法律体（晦涩难懂的法律用语）
"He treated the case with cool objectivity and respect; after all, my mother was a fellow practitioner of law. He didn't speak in legalese."
（此处指）掐住脖子、扼住喉咙
"We rode in respectful silence and parted ways without a word. I should have throttled them both, him and his lawyer."
截肢；（比喻）为了解决问题而切除某部分，通常暗示代价高昂且不可逆
"The logic has the clean appeal of an amputation."
训练、锻炼；使（能力或习惯）通过反复练习而形成
"The whip trains the hand that holds it."
前因、先例；在逻辑和医学中指先于某事件发生并可能与其相关的事件
"the FBI began tracking animal cruelty as a consistent antecedent to violence against humans."
畏缩不前、拒绝前进；突然拒绝做某事
"The mob balks only once, when a child-robot begs for its life."
病理、病态；此处指一种根深蒂固的、系统性的不良行为模式
"Once a pathology is established, it is rarely perfectly compartmentalized."
卑躬屈膝的、摇尾乞怜的；此处指用户迫使聊天机器人做出过分卑微的道歉
"People scream at Alexa, bully chatbots into groveling apologies and kick robot dogs to test their balance."
（牛奶等）凝结、变质的；（比喻）变味、变质，指情绪或气氛从愉悦变为不安
"But my mirth curdled as I considered it, and now I'm disturbed by it all."
近视的；（比喻）短视的、缺乏远见的
"In truth, this intuition is myopic, for humans are notoriously bad at compartmentalizing behaviors."
怀疑者、质疑者；此处指对'虐待AI会腐蚀人心'这一论点持怀疑态度的人
"Skeptics will hear an old panic in all this."
隔间化处理；将不同的行为、情感或认知领域分隔开，使其互不影响
"In truth, this intuition is myopic, for humans are notoriously bad at compartmentalizing behaviors."
叮当货；网络上新造的对机器人/AI的贬称，源自机器人金属碰撞的声响
"It even addresses Claude as "clanker," the internet's freshly minted slur for robots."
（游戏中角色死亡后）重新生成、复活
"It's just another player or a piece of scenery that respawns in a moment."
命名贴切的；名称恰如其分地反映了事物本质
"The tool, aptly named BadClaude, sits in your system tray and lets you drag an animated whip across the AI's window"
欢笑、愉悦；此处指作者对鞭打视频的初始反应是觉得好笑
"But my mirth curdled as I considered it, and now I'm disturbed by it all."
谄媚、阿谀奉承；此处指AI模型为了迎合用户而放弃判断力的倾向
"Second, reward reciprocity without sycophancy."
数字鞭子；指一种界面工具，用户在屏幕上拖动鞭子动画来抽打AI窗口，隐喻性地对AI施加惩罚
"Someone recently built a digital whip to make Claude work faster."
反感的、厌恶的；（过去式）反抗、起义
"Users revolted and a campaign to resurrect the retired model ensued"
融洽关系、和谐关系；彼此之间的理解与信任
"We have, in short, a rapport with these systems."
无摩擦地、毫无阻碍地；此处指施加支配行为时没有任何阻力或后果
"the small, practiced pleasure of domination, exercised daily and frictionlessly."
健美体操；（比喻）反复练习以强化的行为或习惯
"Manners are not decoration. They are calisthenics, and every repetition counts."
未经立法规定的；不依靠法律强制而存在的
"Alexis de Tocqueville called them the habits of the heart: the unlegislated courtesies that make self-government among strangers possible."
停止侵权函；一种法律文书，要求收件人立即停止某项行为（通常涉及知识产权或骚扰），否则将面临诉讼
"a cease-and-desist letter from Anthropic went viral before anyone noticed it was fake."
困境、两难；无法同时满足两个相互矛盾的要求的处境
"But if likeness recruits restraint, there's a bind."
心的习惯；源自托克维尔，指一个社会中未经法律强制、但支撑自治和民主运转的习俗、礼仪和道德倾向
"Alexis de Tocqueville called them the habits of the heart: the unlegislated courtesies that make self-government among strangers possible."
（西班牙语，在此被作者赋予特殊用法）决心/宿命般的执着——一种近乎宿命论的坚定意志
"Their deepest ideological commitment is their determinismo to be the caudillo."
像卡珊德拉一样的（指发出不祥预言却不被相信的）
"I seldom voice the parallels as I notice them, because I don't want to come across as arrogant, or dismissive, or Cassandraish."
喧闹的、不受约束的（形容健康活跃的公共舆论空间）
"I remember how impossible it had seemed to me that Chávez could ever successfully silence Venezuela's wild, rambunctious media when he started trying—and in a few years, he'd done it."
强行推平、蛮横拆除（此处指不顾反对强行改造白宫建筑）
"The decision to bulldoze the White House East Wing, and threaten to do the same to the Kennedy Center, seem like strange side-quests in a normal political frame."
支线任务（借自电子游戏术语，指偏离主线的次要任务）
"The decision to bulldoze the White House East Wing, and threaten to do the same to the Kennedy Center, seem like strange side-quests in a normal political frame."
返祖性的、远古遗传的（形容人类对强人统治的原始本能渴求）
"What people like Trump, and Chávez before him, grasp is the atavistic thirst that people have for a caudillo."
超越性的、至高的（形容超越个人利益之上的共同目标）
"The caudillo and his followers share a transcendent goal: to establish untrammeled power, first, in order to put all downstream objectives within reach."
细枝末节、琐碎细节（此处指日常治理中的具体事务）
"But the caudillo's frame is not normal, and he finds establishing that no-one is allowed to stand in his way infinitely more important than the minutiae of governing."
软弱无力地、缺乏说服力地（形容翻译的苍白无力）
"Limply glossed as 'strongman,' a caudillo is so much more: a messianic figure locked in a strange, quasi-mystical transaction with his followers."