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（比喻义）将……裹挟，使其受制于……的进程或结果
"Brussels should reward Moldova’s clarity of purpose—not hold it hostage to the much harder question of Ukraine."
明确的目标感和行动方向
"Brussels should reward Moldova’s clarity of purpose—not hold it hostage to the much harder question of Ukraine."
传统天主教徒（尤指坚持拉丁弥撒等古老仪式的保守派）
"The occasion was a tradcath wedding in St Louis, greyscale city of my teenage years, and the last place I truly believed in demons."
（头发）花白的，黑白相间的
"Some combination of short salt-and-pepper hair, a red turtleneck and a heavy medallion."
生物标志物；这里比喻信仰或曾有过的信仰是一种像悲伤或变态一样可被识别的生理/心理特征
"Belief, or past belief, is a kind of biomarker, like grief or perversion or having studied magic."
变态；性变态；这里指被认为偏离常态的精神或心理状态
"Belief, or past belief, is a kind of biomarker, like grief or perversion or having studied magic."
带有……的明显标记/特征
"‘Nun on the plane!’ I shouted this time, as a woman boarded bearing the unmistakable stamp of the calling."
量身定制的；特别适合某一情境或目的的
"My friends would celebrate the turn of the millennium without me, but in escaping I also narrowly missed a more tailor-made end of the world."
灰度的；这里指城市色调灰暗、单调、缺乏生机
"The occasion was a tradcath wedding in St Louis, greyscale city of my teenage years, and the last place I truly believed in demons."
令人不安的/让人感到不自在的（语气比shocking弱，强调认知上的失调感）
"Bainbridge's own stance on sexual assault was, to say the least, disconcerting."
举止得体的，符合礼仪规范的（此处带有讽刺意味，指即使获得荣誉也未使其变得循规蹈矩）
"She was shortlisted for the Booker five times without ever winning (no one forgets this). She remains a figure who is hard to place – widely appreciated, but not a member of any acknowledged group of writers, and without much discernible influence on those who came after. Her national standing was confirmed with a damehood in 2000, an honour which she prized, though it didn't make her decorous."
彻头彻尾的波西米亚人——指完全践行反传统、非正统生活方式的人（此处带有批判性，暗示其自私）
"She was looking for stability, but Davies was a thorough-going bohemian – and bohemianism has never been good news for women."
英勇地荒谬——形容用悲壮的方式坚持某种明显不合逻辑或徒劳的行为
"Patricia Routledge, just three years older than Bainbridge and also brought up on Merseyside, remembered women like Winnie with the valiantly absurd character of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up Appearances."
（原指完美的事物被）损坏/玷污，留下瑕疵
"The marriage survived, but it was marred by the conflict that Bainbridge recalled in A Quiet Life (1976)."
艰苦贫困的，仅能维持生计的（形容通过辛苦劳作勉强糊口的生活状态）
"Bainbridge was brought up in Formby, a coastal town just north of Liverpool, and the fading fortunes of Merseyside throughout the 20th century have led to the notion that she had a hardscrabble upbringing."
阴谋；诡计；秘密策划
"The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue by Meghan Kobza."
奢侈；铺张；挥霍无度
"The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue by Meghan Kobza."
法西斯主义者；极权主义分子
"The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès by Sergio Luzzatto."
回忆；往事；回忆录
"Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated by Bryan Karetnyk."
假面舞会；伪装；掩饰
"The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue by Meghan Kobza."
相互交织；穿插交错（指生命各部分彼此嵌套、不可分割的状态）
"By seeing the profound interleaving of life"
震动骨髓/撼动灵魂（一种强烈的修辞，表示言论的冲击力穿透了理性的外壳、直达人的最深层）
"His long-ago lamentation rattles the bones of the modern mind still haunted by the Cartesian delusion"
悲叹；哀悼（尤指对某种失去或错误方向的强烈、持续的痛苦表达）
"His long-ago lamentation rattles the bones of the modern mind still haunted by the Cartesian delusion"
赋予生机；生动地描绘（使人物在读者眼前'活过来'）
"Andrea Wulf animates the life of this forgotten visionary in The Traveler"
影响深远的；触及范围极广的
"Alexander von Humboldt would reflect at the end of his long and far-reaching life"
孵化；酝酿（指思想在内心逐渐成熟、发展，最终被表达出来）
"He would incubate these ideas — radical now, nothing less than revolutionary then — as a young unknown naturalist on James Cook's voyages"
具有潜望镜般视野的；能够超越常规视角看到更广阔图景的
"Over the course of his short and periscopic life"
潜望镜——此处为作者独创的隐喻用法，指一种能够'超越主流视野、看到时代预设之外'的认知工具
"through a periscope that rises above the surface of the mainstream to see past the horizon of the era's givens"
虚构的事物；凭空想象出来的东西（尤指文化或心理上的虚幻产物）
"The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts"
反现任情绪，反对现任当权者（的浪潮）
"德·拉·埃斯普列利亚在这个有利于反现任情绪（anti-incumbency）的环境里只赢了一个百分点，这足以说明他的执政联盟基础多么薄弱。"
福音派教徒的选票（指作为特定群体的政治力量）
"他是一个自称由无神论者皈依的天主教徒，却成功争取并赢得了福音派选票（evangelical vote）的支持。"
努力争取并最终获得（支持），尤其是通过献殷勤或战略性的示好
"他是一个自称由无神论者皈依的天主教徒，却成功争取并赢得了（courted and won）福音派选民的支持。"
（道德上）令人不快的，名声不好的，令人讨厌的
"他拿着美国护照和意大利护照，在迈阿密拥有一座豪宅，这些钱来自于数十年来为名声不佳的（unsavory）客户提供法律服务。"
（此处指）自私自利且不择手段的；玩世不恭的，为了自身利益而利用他人或制度，无视道德原则
"这种为了政治目的而对足球发表的、玩世不恭的（cynical）利用，契合了一种更大的行为模式，也象征了德·拉·埃斯普列利亚成为总统后，哥伦比亚必须面对的一切。"
极其憎恶，强烈反感
"德·拉·埃斯普列利亚告诉其2012年传记的作者，他极其憎恶（detested）足球，从未去过体育场看过一场比赛，对世界杯也毫不关心。"
主动利用，借势而上（将负面或争议性话题转化为自己的优势）
"埃斯普列利亚则借势而上（leaned into the controversy），鼓励他所有的支持者都穿上黄色球衣。"
极其微小的差距，像刀片一样薄的优势
"他击败了现任左翼总统古斯塔沃·佩特罗钦定的候选人、参议员伊万·塞佩达，优势极其微弱（razor-thin margin）：仅比对方多出不到一个百分点的选票。"
意识形态，思想体系（一套系统的信念和价值观，尤其指导政治和社会行为）
"哥伦比亚即将发现，在没有意识形态（ideology）的情况下治理国家意味着什么。"
加倍投入，变本加厉地坚持（某个策略、路线或承诺）
"他承诺将加倍贯彻（doubling down on）佩特罗与武装团体谈判的“全面和平”战略。"
（此处指）处理非法或棘手事务的中间人，搞定麻烦的人
"尽管他曾为亚历克斯·萨博工作，而这位操盘手（fixer）曾帮助委内瑞拉前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗规避制裁并掌权超过十年，但德·拉·埃斯普列利亚誓言要让哥伦比亚避免陷入委内瑞拉式的乱局。"
解药；矫正方法。此处指用某种论述或观点来反驳、治愈某种有害的文化现象。
"In a lovely antidote to the cult of achievement — that punitive denial of the most wondrous aspect of being alive: the fact that we are unfinished — he adds:"
使困惑，使心慌意乱，扰乱。
"When you meet something fierce, too strong to overcome, too high to climb, too eminent to sidestep, too dark to enlighten, don’t take it too personally — you have merely met an antibody, whose sacred task is to challenge you, discombobulate you, disfigure you, and introduce “you” to the strange vastness of your family."
重新野化，恢复其野性。在此语境中是一个文学隐喻，指中断和困难所具有的、像大自然般去驯化并重构（人类生活）的力量。
"Bayo Akomolafe celebrates the rewilding power of these interruptions in These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (public library)."
与许可和限制的边界发生激烈冲突。这里指个人的意志与构成现实的、社会或宇宙层面所允许的想象范围之间的对抗。
"Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and an obstacle in the way — that place midway between desire and destination where one’s will collides with the will of the world, with the parameters of permission for imagination we call reality."
生成之共同体。指一个由持续变化、发展和演变中的个体或实体组成的、相互关联的社群。
"A larger commonwealth of becoming."
将意图的轨迹一分为二。指障碍物横插进来，迫使原本直线前进的意志/行动发生根本性的断裂和转向。
"The moment an obstacle bisects the trajectory of intent, it creates a natural midpoint that is both an end and a beginning, but also something else entirely, for it lives on a different plane from the strict linearity of the will as cause and its intended effect."