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支撑；依赖物（原义：拐杖）
"Understanding may be a crutch. It helps us get good answers."
降级；堕落；贬低（人类价值的丧失）
"It's something less than science. It's like a degradation of the human spirit."
最高成就；皇冠般的巅峰之作
"You know, Fermat's last theorem is one of the crowning achievements in number theory, whereas somehow combinatorics didn't really come into its presence, good reputation, until fairly recently."
机械地复述（原义：反刍，生理学上指将食物呕出再咀嚼）
"Yeah, it's amazing 'cause it means they're not just regurgitating, culling a human response."
耗时费力的；艰巨的
"It can be very arduous. There could be thousands of diagrams, sometimes even more that they have to calculate on computers."
彻底颠覆；使翻倒（原义：将...上下颠倒）
"It feels like the ecosystem in which we're doing math is being upended and we're trying to figure out how best to adapt, how we can use these new tools."
暗中相连的；在表面之下存在关联的
"You have this realization of how they are secretly connected and how you can sort of make that rigorous."
使震惊得目瞪口呆；被彻底压倒
"I was floored when I saw this paper to think that my polynomials had to do with a sort of, quote-unquote, 'real world.'"
次要的；边缘的；非核心的
"So I wanna go back to something you said a minute ago, the idea that some parts of math are considered more peripheral or more marginal, like they can come in and out of fashion."
象限；高维空间中的超象限（类似2D象限的推广）
"So that positive orthant would be where the X, Y, and Z coordinates are all positive or non-negative."
策略性举动；为占据优势而采取的主动步骤（常含风险）
"And that's the nice gambit because in a lot of fields you're sort of stuck with the question."
振幅体（专有名词，用于N=4超对称杨-米尔斯理论中计算散射振幅的几何对象）
"And then this in turn led to a beautiful geometric object that they call the amplituhedron, whose volume computes scattering amplitudes."
普遍性，无处不在的特性
"In this latest episode of The Joy of Why, Williams talks to co-host Steven Strogatz about her work, how she realized the surprising pervasiveness of the positive Grassmannian, and how she has made a career of finding connections among fields that don't at first sight seem connected."
观看者；审美主体（‘美在观看者眼中’中的核心词）
"There's the old line about beauty being in the eye of the beholder."
稍微调整；微调（为达到最佳效果）
"If it seems like I'm arriving at the answer, but it's simply not elegant, doesn't seem to be interesting, then I would try to tweak the question."
彻底的转变/蜕变（尤指形态或性质的根本性变化）
"And there is general unease over its metamorphosis into a democracy with profoundly “Pakistani characteristics”"
最棘手的；最令人头疼的（指问题极其复杂和敏感）
"It doesn’t resolve the thorniest issues: nuclear inspections, uranium enrichment limits, Iran’s ballistic-missile program, stewardship of the Strait of Hormuz, and how Iran will spend the billions of dollars soon to be released from sanctions."
被...困扰；四面受敌
"This might seem strange for a country beset by deep-seated political and economic problems."
令人瞠目结舌的；极其惊人的（通常指规模或程度）
"Jinnah asked America for an eye-popping $2 billion in September 1947, barely one month after the Pakistani state came into being (he got a mere $10 million the first year)."
根深蒂固的；深层的（指问题、信念等难以清除）
"This might seem strange for a country beset by deep-seated political and economic problems."
即将进入...的关键时刻；处于...的门槛上
"Nearly 80 years after its birth, Pakistan may finally be on the cusp of achieving that vision."
（关系、声誉、计划等）破碎不堪；彻底瓦解
"It’s no secret that Islamabad’s relationship with Kabul is in tatters."
后自由主义时代的；指自由主义理念和制度受到挑战或衰落的时期或思潮
"I will be interviewing Francis Fukuyama about how liberalism should respond to the postliberal threat."
沉浸在（外界给予的）令人愉悦的正面关注和赞誉之中
"Key moments from those negotiations, preserved in multiple photos and videos across social media, show Pakistan bathed in a flattering glow."
最终的优势/最大资本；在某种特定情况下最有价值、能带来决定性胜利的事物
"The breakdown of Pakistan’s long alliance with the Taliban could prove the ultimate asset in building a successful new relationship with the United States."
不可或缺的调解者/中间人；指在冲突双方之间起着无法替代的桥梁作用的人或实体
"Pakistan’s success as indispensable intermediary between the United States and Iran—two countries locked in nearly half a century of animosity—has won it great praise and much international goodwill."
非常明显的、显著的。在此语境中指“欧洲从和平项目向战争项目的转变”这一趋势变得越来越突出和易见。
"We’ve been going from Europe as a peace project to Europe as more of a war project for the last few years, and that’s only becoming more and more pronounced."
地位、身份、名望。尤其指某人或某事在特定群体中所拥有的受尊重或受信赖的地位。
"But we don’t necessarily have the standing in those countries to tell them what to do."
族裔民族主义/族群民族主义。一种认为国家应当由单一共同族裔（民族）所定义和统治的意识形态。强调血缘、文化和语言上的同质性。
"Part of the challenge for our kind of politics—if you want to have a politics which isn’t just about building walls and going back to ethno-nationalism—is to find ways of bringing everyone in our societies along with the idea of cooperation."
沉闷乏味的、古板保守的、缺乏新意的。通常用于形容人、事物或机构保守、僵化、无趣。
"there is also a bear case to be made about it. Is there a danger that some of the advantages Europe has historically had—being perceived as very principled, rule-bound partners, perhaps a little stodgy, perhaps unable to act very fast, but on whom you can actually rely..."
无力、无效；没有力量或影响力去做某事。
"I think we need to be able to live with the discomfort of some amount of impotence."
德语词汇，字面义为“模范孩子”。在此比喻德国是欧洲的“模范生”、“榜样”。
"By and large, though, it was the European Musterkind—the example of how things go right in Europe."
普世主义/普世价值论。一种认为某些价值观、原则或规范适用于全人类，不论国家、文化或时代的哲学观点。
"I want to get to the broader themes and understand the extent to which this is challenging a kind of universalism and so on."
蓝图（比喻义）。指详尽的行动计划、设计方案或纲领。延续了“建筑”的隐喻。
"They develop blueprints and grand plans which can then be anchored in institutions, laws, and norms."
这是一个描述“工匠”方法的排比短语组。核心意思是：秉承实用主义和迭代思维，利用现有资源，进行试验性、非颠覆性的创新。字面意思为：重复使用旧物件、修补东西、重塑事物、尝试新事物。
"You don’t start with an ideal blueprint; you try to work out how you can reuse old objects, repair things, reinvent things, try things out—and if they don’t work, you get rid of them."
第一性原理；最基本的、无需证明的命题或假设。在此指从最根本的、公理性的理念出发来构想世界秩序。
"The architects are basically people who start to imagine how the world should be organized from first principles."
利用手头现成的、多样化的材料或工具进行创造或修补的行为或过程。指一种即兴创作、拼凑的思维方式。中文常翻译为“拼装”、“即兴创作”、“修补术”。
"It’s a much more improvisational approach, more like DIY or bricolage than grand planning."
（坚决地、系统地）着手处理、应对（难题、任务等）。
"But it does mean behaving and acting in a totally different way, and that is something that almost nobody has really managed to tackle in its entirety."
在特定上下文中，指提出宏大的、从零开始的、基于原则性蓝图来构想和创造秩序或体系的人。引申为“顶层设计师”。
"The architects are basically people who start to imagine how the world should be organized from first principles."
看跌的理由、悲观的观点或论据。源自金融术语。在此指关于中国前景暗淡、问题重重的论述。
"But before we get there, there is a kind of bearish case on China as well."
在本语境中，指采取实用主义、渐进、试验性方法来应对世界的人，他们更擅长修补和改进现有之物，而非创造全新的体系。引申为“能工巧匠”。
"Another way of thinking about how you conduct yourself in global affairs is what I call the artisan."
（比喻义）巨大的、复杂的体系或结构。在此处指支撑欧洲经济、安全和外交政策的整个组织和思想体系。
"What we’re having to very slowly come to terms with is that the entire edifice around which our economic policy, our security policy, and our ideas of how relationships should work with different countries have now been overtaken by events."
空想、幻想；不可能实现的荒诞想法。
"It’s obviously a chimera."
源于系统或团体外部的秩序。在此特指由外部力量（如美国）强加或维护的全球秩序。
"We need to start from ground zero and work out how to survive in a world where there is very little exogenous order—and the only order we’ll have is the order that we can create for ourselves."
分歧、差异，尤其指观点、利益或发展路径从原本的共同点开始背离、分道扬镳的过程。
"We’re also seeing a big divergence between the ways that Europeans look at the world—whether it’s on Ukraine and Russia, whether it’s on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz—from American priorities."
效仿、模仿，尤指努力赶上或超越（被认为是卓越的榜样）。
"Is there a risk that emulating the Chinese bricolage approach might undermine what have historically been Europe’s strengths in the world?"
（内心）挣扎的、矛盾的、难以抉择的。字面义为“被撕扯”。
"I’m torn here, because there are things you’re saying that I agree with and others that I think I disagree with."
一个以利用、剥削或掠夺其他国家或地区为特征的国家或政权。
"You have the United States, the protector of first resort for the last few decades, that has become at best disengaged from European security and at worst a predatory power."
处于危险、受损或失败的风险之中。在此语境中指欧洲整体处境危险，前景堪忧。
"There is a real sense of jeopardy."
工业或制造业在国民经济或特定地区中比重下降的过程。通常伴随着工厂关闭、就业岗位流失和经济结构向服务业转型。
"People have gone from an age of optimism about their economic relations with China to a fear of deindustrialization as Chinese excess capacity floods European markets."