Vocabulary

彻底失败；崩溃；灾祸

"The result is a debacle."

消除，使成为不必要

"...his limited attention span obviated the ability to place any long-term trust in him."

毁坏……的外貌，污损（尤指表面）

"The strategy mistake that Netanyahu made was failing to understand that just as Trump is with you, he could also flip on you,"

显示出，表露（感情、品质等）

"...leading to the American public, and younger Americans in particular, evincing greater sympathy for Palestine than for Israel."

（粗俗俚语）懦夫，胆小鬼；卑鄙下流的人或行为

"The list included “recalcitrant,” “myopic,” “reactionary,” “obtuse,” “blustering,” “pompous,” “Aspergery,” and “chickenshit.”"

自命不凡的，华而不实的，浮夸的

"The list included “recalcitrant,” “myopic,” “reactionary,” “obtuse,” “blustering,” “pompous,” “Aspergery,” and “chickenshit.”"

咆哮的，虚张声势的，咄咄逼人但缺乏实质的

"The list included “recalcitrant,” “myopic,” “reactionary,” “obtuse,” “blustering,” “pompous,” “Aspergery,” and “chickenshit.”"

迟钝的，愚钝的，（尤指）不理解显而易见之事的

"The list included “recalcitrant,” “myopic,” “reactionary,” “obtuse,” “blustering,” “pompous,” “Aspergery,” and “chickenshit.”"

桀骜不驯的，顽固对抗的

"The list included “recalcitrant,” “myopic,” “reactionary,” “obtuse,” “blustering,” “pompous,” “Aspergery,” and “chickenshit.”"

绝招，高明的策略

"The Iran war was his war—it was supposed to be his masterstroke for generating regime change in Iran..."

受到鼓舞而更加大胆、有恃无恐的

"...just when the Islamic Republic finds itself emboldened."

凡尔赛和约（此处为讽刺性戏仿）

"Then there’s Trump, who signed the “Retreaty of Versailles” as a diminished version of Obama’s 2015 deal..."

火速地，急遽地

"...U.S. forces retrograding post-haste out of the “proximity” of Iran."

（尤指令人惊讶或恐怖的）幽灵，鬼魂；离奇出现的东西

"Sybil Baker is the author of *Apparitions*."

联想地；通过联想的方式（指思维、叙事等并非线性逻辑，而是由一个想法连接到另一个相关想法）

"The story unfolds associatively, with our protagonist’s dreams, ghost lover, and memories accruing during her endless days alone..."

令人不快的，令人讨厌的；尤指气味恶臭的

"It is this noisome pandemic, this tedious lockdown, yet there is Bing again..."

离题地，枝节地；说话或写作时偏离主题地

"She was half listening to his digressively long tale about a kindergarten classmate—so like his Grandpa Bing, whose oral discourses were legendary among his students..."

（艺术家、作家等的）全部作品，毕生之作

"“Before,” from her most recent collection Horizon Hong Kong, is a delightful addition to her expansive oeuvre of 16 books (and counting)."

刺激，促使，推动（某事加速发生）

"But recent astronomical observations have spurred scientists to look further into a less popular idea — that the two are in fact physically intertwined."

巧合地，碰巧地

"Coincidentally, two physicists — Marc Kamionkowski, now at Johns Hopkins University, and Michael Kesden, now at the University of Texas at Dallas — have already looked into one such test."

把……归因于；认为是……所固有的属性（在此语境中，“归功于”暗物质的作用）

"These massive gravitons would reside in the dark dimension, but their gravitational effects could be felt in other dimensions, allowing them to fulfill the role that is normally ascribed to dark matter."

大约，数量级在……左右

"but the researchers proposed that the dark dimension could be significantly bigger than the others — on the order of a micron (10-6 meters)."

假定，假设，认定（某事为真）作为讨论或推理的基础

"String theory posits the existence of six or seven extra dimensions in addition to our familiar three dimensions of space and one of time."

张力，紧张状态（在此语境中指两个测量值之间的差异导致的学术争议）

"Teixeira and colleagues’ recent study shows how allowing the two to interact can, at least in some scenarios, ameliorate one of the most persistent problems in cosmology: the Hubble tension."

改善，减轻（问题或负面状况）

"Teixeira and colleagues’ recent study shows how allowing the two to interact can, at least in some scenarios, ameliorate one of the most persistent problems in cosmology: the Hubble tension."

安慰，慰藉（在此语境中指宇宙在黑暗图景中提供的抚慰）

"For those who see the world as a dark place, the universe seems to offer little solace."

协同地，一致地（在此语境中指暗能量的密度和暗物质的质量同步变化）

"In the new model, both the energy density of dark energy and the mass of dark matter change in concert."

类似物，对应物（在此语境中指一种概念上的对等物或模型）

"The result spurred Khoury and two Pennsylvania colleagues, Meng-Xiang Lin and Mark Trodden, to construct a model of dark interactions based on a dark-sector analogue of quantum chromodynamics, a cornerstone theory of particle physics."

表现形式，显现（在此语境中指同一‘统一理论’的不同外部表现）

"And it would not be surprising if [they] were manifestations of a kind of unified theory of the dark universe."

反抗，蔑视，挑战（在此语境中指违背、对抗能量守恒定律）

"But the results also suggested that in an earlier era, dark energy could have grown stronger, in seeming defiance of the law of energy conservation."

纠缠在一起的，紧密相连的

"But recent astronomical observations have spurred scientists to look further into a less popular idea — that the two are in fact physically intertwined."

难以捉摸、难以定义的性质；逃避性

"Generally, dark energy and dark matter are regarded as separate entities, their elusiveness their primary link."

无限期地，没有确定期限地

"Reflexively spurning it hands ammunition to those in Europe who would be perfectly content to leave Ukraine parked in the waiting room indefinitely."

附带损害（军事术语，指对非军事目标的无意伤害，在本文指摩尔多瓦成为乌克兰入盟问题的无辜牺牲品）

"It would be a disaster if Kyiv’s all-or-nothing insistence, colliding with the genuine complexity of its situation, froze the entire enlargement machine on political grounds—and if little Moldova got dragged down as collateral damage."

棘手的、难处理的、难以解决的

"Yes, there is Transnistria, a seemingly intractable problem."

轻蔑地拒绝、唾弃

"Reflexively spurning it hands ammunition to those in Europe who would be perfectly content to leave Ukraine parked in the waiting room indefinitely."

（行为）不恰当的、不得体的、有失身份/体面的

"But treating any interim arrangement as a demotion—and full EU membership as a debt the West owes for Ukrainian blood—is unbecoming and self-defeating."

难以管束的、好争吵的、不守纪律的

"The country’s political life is fractious, and progress made today could be reversed."

在……之间剧烈、不稳地摇摆（常指无能或情绪化地）

"In an era when so many European governments lurch between sycophancy and tantrum, Chișinău’s poise is a quiet masterclass."

沉着、冷静、镇定自若的风度

"In an era when so many European governments lurch between sycophancy and tantrum, Chișinău’s poise is a quiet masterclass."

谄媚、阿谀奉承、拍马屁的行为

"In an era when so many European governments lurch between sycophancy and tantrum, Chișinău’s poise is a quiet masterclass."

灵巧、机敏、娴熟（尤指在处理复杂或微妙局势时）

"In a way, it mirrors the deftness with which Moldova’s ambassador to Washington avoids the traps that the Trump era presents for him..."

对……有很好的掌控、理解或应对能力

"I remember a number of well-placed Moldovan officials who assured me a year ago that they had a good handle on Russia’s interference in the fall election."

（所有人）都同样认真、严肃、目标一致

"my American Enterprise Institute colleagues and I were struck by how uniformly serious they all were about Moldova and its place in Europe."

悬而未决，结果尚不确定

"I visited Chișinău last year, several months before Moldova’s parliamentary election, when its outcome—and with it the country’s European trajectory—hung in the balance."

不严肃的，不认真的，缺乏质量和责任感的

"There are serious countries and unserious ones."