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共同谋划或参与阴谋的人。在此语境中，带有幽默和亲切感，指共同致力于某个事业（创办American Purpose）的伙伴。
"I’m joined by my good friend and colleague Francis Fukuyama, who is of course the founder of our co-conspirator American Purpose, among many, many other things."
不必要的、无故的、且故意残忍的。强调这种行为既没有正当理由，也缺乏必要性，完全是出于恶意或冷酷。
"And when governments crack down, whether in the gratuitously cruel way of a Trump administration or even in a smarter, more targeted way, they say, well, look at all these cases of injustice, that doesn’t seem fair, let’s loosen up."
十字架的踏板。特指在耶稣受难像中，用于支撑双脚的小平台。
"Zurbarán followed the censor’s example: in both paintings, Christ’s body stands on a suppedaneum, crucified with four nails (one for each foot) rather than three."
(法语) 视觉陷阱，错视画法。一种高度逼真的绘画技巧，旨在通过精细的写实手法欺骗观众的眼睛，使其将二维平面上的图像误认为三维实物。
"A crumpled cartellino at the base of the cross says: ‘Franco Dezur/Fa 1627.’ A small but impressive exercise in trompe l’oeil, it was the first of many in Zurbarán’s work."
(形容词) 密集的，排列紧密的。形容物体紧密地靠在一起，通常指一排排或一群群的事物。
"Amber divine light makes his white cloak glow, shadows emphasising the weight of the serried folds."
令人着迷的，有催眠般魔力的。形容画作具有极强吸引力的效果。
"Seeing many of his paintings across all the genres together, I realised I was wrong. They are mesmerising."
僧侣的，神圣的，具有庄严程式化风格的。此处用于描述帕切科笔下基督形象的那种僵直、神圣、不似凡人的风格。
"But where Pacheco’s Christ is flat and hieratic, a 17th-century Pantocrator, Zurbarán’s is mortal."
(复数: putti /ˈpʊt.i/) 小天使，裸体儿童形象。常见于文艺复兴和巴洛克艺术中，常作为装饰元素出现，象征神圣的爱或纯粹的欢乐。
"The Virgin of the Rosary sits on a cloud of putti heads at the top of a small staircase, with a view of the heavens behind."
专题的，专论的。此处指专门针对一位艺术家（苏巴朗）的展览。
"The National Gallery’s monographic exhibition (until 23 August) is the first of its kind in the UK."
狂喜的，出神的，心醉神迷的。在此上下文中，它描述了一种强烈的、近乎宗教狂喜的视觉体验。
"Suddenly, as if in an ecstatic vision, a huge image of Christ on the Cross against a black backdrop appeared in front of me."
柔软的，易弯曲的，有韧性的。此处形容基督肌肤的质感，暗示其逼真与鲜活。
"Projecting into the gallery space, with soft and supple skin, Christ seemed almost alive."
万能主宰者，全能者。这是一个东正教神学艺术中的专有名词，特指全能者基督的形象，通常是正面像，庄严地手持福音书赐福。
"But where Pacheco’s Christ is flat and hieratic, a 17th-century Pantocrator, Zurbarán’s is mortal."
光线昏暗的小礼拜堂。'Oratory'特指一个用于私人祈祷或小型聚会的小教堂。
"Visiting the city a hundred years later, the painter Antonio Palomino described seeing it behind the grille of the dimly lit oratory."
挥霍，大肆花钱（指在非必需品或享乐上超出常规的大额消费）
"Unless the AI industry quickly finds a way to produce a return on its debt-fueled spending splurge..."
护城河（商业语境中，指一家公司相对于竞争对手的、持久的竞争优势，如品牌、专利、网络效应等）
"Without the protective “moat” of patent protection, as is common with new products..."
不稳定性，脆弱性，朝不保夕的状态（名词形式）
"To properly understand the precarity of the AI companies, it is important to realize that their margins are being squeezed from several directions at once."
负债过高，杠杆过大（指债务相对于股本的比例过高，财务风险极大）
"The industry is badly overleveraged and that's unlikely to change."
诡计，欺诈，花招（尤指通过谎言、欺骗或法律上的钻空子来达到目的）
"...stronger measures to deter the types of financial chicanery that AI companies have used to create a misleading picture of the industry’s finances."
一丝，一点点（常指气味或迹象，此处引申为“一丁点儿的可能性或迹象”）
"Whenever an AI developer discovers a use case with even a whiff of profit potential..."
达到高潮/顶峰，最终导致（指一系列事件发展后，最终达到一个顶点或结果）
"If these combined pressures culminate in an AI market collapse, the fallout would likely be severe."
标价冲击（指消费者发现某商品或服务的价格远高于预期时产生的震惊感）
"The move apparently succeeded in boosting revenues, at least temporarily, but the higher prices gave many customers sticker shock."
控制力，影响力，支配地位（名词形式）
"The last time an industry held such sway over the nation’s economy was the 19th century, when railroads reigned supreme."
畏缩不前，犹豫不决（因遇到困难、问题或不同意而突然停下或拒绝继续）
"Businesses have started to balk at AI companies’ efforts to juice more revenue out of them."
狂热的，高度兴奋而混乱的（如发烧般不可控）
"Launching such a price war is, in effect, a bet that the fevered competition that follows will be temporary..."
风切变（气象术语；在商业语境中比喻经济环境中的突然、剧烈的变化或阻力，使发展变得困难或不稳定）
"Perhaps Anthropic and OpenAI are simply struggling to find a sustainable price point for their products given the economic wind shear the industry is facing."
坚持到底（口语化表达，强调在困难中不放弃）
"Nazi propaganda told the citizens to 'durchhalten, ausharren' – hold firm, stick it out – and almost to the end, with Russian tanks entering the suburbs, most of them did."
回避；退缩（此处指因政治或心理原因不愿讨论某话题）
"Perhaps liberal German writers shy away from [Berlin’s war experience] to avoid any hint of national self-pity."
坚持住，挺过去（德语词汇，纳粹宣传口号，带有强制和忍耐的双重含义）
"Nazi propaganda told the citizens to 'durchhalten, ausharren' – hold firm, stick it out"
猛攻；倾泻（猛烈且持续的进攻）
"Goebbels thought that the onslaught actually hardened the Berliners' will to fight on"
普遍的狂欢乐（在毁灭背景下的狂欢）
"Later, as the bombing began to reduce the centre of the city to ruins, the young Ursula von Kardorff described 'a general frenzy of pleasure … Not terribly nice, really, this dancing on a volcano, simply because people want to use their homes before they have to move into mass shelters.'"
火山口跳舞（比喻在即将到来的灾难面前寻欢作乐）
"'Not terribly nice, really, this dancing on a volcano, simply because people want to use their homes before they have to move into mass shelters.'"
被炸弹啃噬过的（比喻性形容词，描述建筑物受弹片侵蚀的伤痕）
"A wall of the Victoria and Albert Museum stays bomb-bitten in the same way."
被熏黑的人（此处指炸弹袭击后满身烟尘的幸存者）
"a blackened somebody crawling out of his ruined house after a thousand-bomber raid"
闪电战创伤（比喻性指代伦敦大轰炸留下的物理和精神伤痕）
"London remembers its Blitz wounds with pride."
考文垂化（纳粹创造的德语新词，指将一座城市炮轰为瓦砾）
"The verb Coventrisieren – to bomb a town to rubble – joined the Nazi vocabulary."
暗指；隐约暗示（此处指出词语的潜在含义）
"That last word also hints at something left over, an unlikely survival."
冷静忍受（以斯多葛式坚韧接受苦难）
"Londoners stoically took it."
没有垮掉（在巨大压力下保持完整）
"'Berliners, like Londoners, or indeed the citizens of Tokyo, Hanoi and many other cities since then, lived through far worse bombings without cracking.'"
未能报到（指故意缺席官方登记或集合要求）
"In fact, he did fail to report for transfer to Germany."
狗食盘边缘的残渣（比喻极其微不足道的剩余物）
"A scrap left on the edge of a dog's dish goes much too far, but a blackened somebody crawling out of his ruined house after a thousand-bomber raid – he's pretty übrig."
壮丽；宏伟（形容令人惊叹的景象和规模）
"when confronted by the magnificence of a great European metropolis"
毁灭；消亡（指被彻底摧毁或失去生机）
"But the cultural splendour that awed him was about to perish"
被盟军处决（处以绞刑）
"Frick survived to be hanged by the Allies after the war."
被...远远超越（在程度或等级上完全被压制）
"But British 'spivs and profiteers' were outclassed by the greed of some of the Nazi elite."
常去之地（特指一群体经常聚集的场所）
"once the favourite haunt of Weimar-period literati"
野味（指被猎杀的野生鸟类或动物作为食物）
"'The shopping lists of Wilhelm Frick, the interior minister,' Buruma writes, 'revealed that he received 125 kilos of game, 100 kilos of fruit, 25 kilos of sausages, as well as ham and corned beef, and 25 pounds of chocolates.'"
疯狂的热情（失控的、近乎歇斯底里的狂热）
"There was a season of frantic enthusiasm for the Führer."
引人入胜的见证者（能够激发好奇心的历史参与人）
"In some ways, Leo Buruma is the most intriguing witness here."
施加；造成（特指带来伤害或痛苦）
"But at the same time the first serious RAF raids reached Berlin, inflicting a few casualties"
烧毁的空壳（指被大火彻底毁灭后仅存的建筑外壳）
"By the end of the year, they would all be gone or reduced to burned-out husks."