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仔细考虑，深思熟虑（尤指在做出决定前）
"The judge deliberates: you can see him weighing up the considerations as they appear to him (and he generally seems confident that the way they appear to him—often at second- or thirdhand—is how they are)."
（因贫困、忧虑或紧张而）消瘦的，皱巴巴的，紧绷的
"Those on one side of the divide have a pinched, alert intensity about them, the psychic and emotional equivalent of taut muscles."
斯多葛式的顺从，坚忍的无奈接受
"the naked, wide-awake terror; the stoic resignation mingled with defiance."
无法解决的，不能解决的
"Wiseman’s own judgment, given in an interview with Studs Terkel, was that the court staff were “people doing their best,” but faced with “problems that are essentially insoluble, given the current state of knowledge and commitment to solving them in our society.”"
（思想的）丰富性，多产性，创造力
"It is part of the fecundity and power of Wiseman’s films that they give birth to reactions in the viewer that are not foreseeable or determinable in advance, that have lives of their own."
确定性，明确性，决定性
"There are, at most, parameters or suggestions—and they point in the opposite direction from determinacy or dogmatism."
变得突出，崭露头角，成为焦点
"In Wiseman’s films, where the filmmakers are neither seen nor heard, it is this face that comes to the fore."
核心支点，比喻意义上指促使意义追寻的关键或根本
"The great paradox of human life is that our mortality is the fulcrum of our search for meaning — the yearning to make this brief lungful of life matter amid the breathless void of space and time — and yet we spend our lives obviating the fact that we are mortal."
一肺之量，形容生命如一次短暂呼吸
"The great paradox of human life is that our mortality is the fulcrum of our search for meaning — the yearning to make this brief lungful of life matter amid the breathless void of space and time — and yet we spend our lives obviating the fact that we are mortal."
清醒的、头脑清晰的，此处指清醒地认知现实
"If we are lucky enough, if we are lucid enough, it may take us less than a lifetime to learn that to deny death is to deny life."
使不必要地回避（贬义），此处指主动逃避或消除死亡意识
"The great paradox of human life is that our mortality is the fulcrum of our search for meaning — the yearning to make this brief lungful of life matter amid the breathless void of space and time — and yet we spend our lives obviating the fact that we are mortal."
全面的；一揽子的；无差别的
"But the answer is not **blanket** censorship."
糊里糊涂地陷入；不知不觉地滑入（某种糟糕境地）
"If Britain doesn’t learn this lesson fast, it will find itself **sleepwalking into** an unfree internet."
赋权；使能够；给予……力量
"There are ways to **empower** parents to navigate their kids’ use of the internet while respecting that children have their own ability to speak and seek information..."
使……对立；使……相互竞争
"The truth is that we don’t need to **pit** our speech rights **against** youth safety."
可供其支配和使用
"And that’s just a sample of the growing power the UK is asserting to define what its citizens can see or say—and the tools the government has **at its disposal** to enforce that power."
亵渎神明；不敬
"In recent years, Britain has banned controversial speakers from entering the country, targeted **blasphemy**, investigated and arrested people for peaceful protest..."
踏上审查之路；步入审查的领域
"It’s not particularly surprising that the UK is once again **treading censorial ground**."
典型特征；标志
"But attacking VPN use is a **hallmark** of authoritarian internet censorship."
全球性的狂热程度；到达高潮
"As the rush to ban children from social media hits **a global fever pitch**, it’s well past time we abandon the faulty claim that only children will feel its effects."
拆除关键的防护屏障（比喻义）
"The process of age verification will **cut away vital firewalls** around users’ anonymity."
削弱；使迟钝；使失去效力
"But there’s a problem: these “under-16” policies will **blunt** all UK citizens’ ability to speak freely and anonymously online."
绕过；规避
"He has stated that the UK will “learn the lessons from Australia’s experience” and “make it far harder for children to **bypass** safeguards.”"
坚决地；强调地；有力地
"But Australia’s ban **emphatically** isn’t doing what it promised."
运转不灵的现状；失效的既有状态
"“This is a choice about whose side we’re on: families across the country, or a **status quo that isn’t working**,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said of the new policy."
受到高度赞扬；被颂扬
"Last year, Australia passed a landmark social media ban for under 16s, which was **lauded** for setting the tone globally for other countries to follow."
里程碑式的；具有转折意义的
"Last year, Australia passed a **landmark** social media ban for under 16s, which was lauded for setting the tone globally for other countries to follow."
宵禁；规定的外出时限
"The policy will also affect older teens—16- and 17-year-olds will face a **curfew** preventing them from accessing social media overnight, while younger teens will be unable to access live streaming."
强制执行；要求
"The exact rules governing the ban will be announced before its implementation next year, but we know it will **mandate** age verification to restrict access to social media platforms for children under the age of 16."
无法模仿的；独一无二的。用于形容Macy Gray独特的沙哑嗓音，强调其不可复制性和独特价值。
"Take Macy Gray, for instance, the chanteuse whose inimitable, scratchy voice made her the subject of mockery as a kid [source: VH1, Before They Were Stars]."
使（一种观念、态度或行为模式）成为自身的一部分；将其内化为自己的信念或价值观。此处指作者无法真正相信和接受自己的价值，尽管有证据表明它存在。
"There’s something sweetly sad about how I remember my scores from 25 years ago, evidence of a worth I still struggle to internalize."
名词：（说话时的）抑扬顿挫；语调升降。此处形容另一位演讲者说话时具有温暖、专业的韵律感。
"She had the warm, professional cadence of a teenage Diane Sawyer."
名词：凹面；凹处。此处用比喻来形容朋友Arya胸口的凹陷。
"In the center of his chest was a deep concavity."
名词：喧闹声；吵嚷。此处指众人争相查看决赛名单时发出的嘈杂和兴奋的声音。
"For about a minute, the crowd jockeyed for view, the din of the cafeteria punctuated every few seconds by a squeal or “Yes!” Maria’s voice was not among the squealers."
尽情享受；沉醉于（某种情绪或事物）。此处是演讲稿结尾的呐喊，鼓励听众去尽情拥抱自己的独特性。
"Revel in your individuality."
(尤指夜总会或酒吧的) 女歌手。此处用于指代Macy Gray，带有一种怀旧、优雅的欧陆风情，与原文‘雄辩（Oratory）’的学院派风格形成碰撞。
"Take Macy Gray, for instance, the chanteuse whose inimitable, scratchy voice made her the subject of mockery as a kid [source: VH1, Before They Were Stars]."
豆杆；形容人（特指女人）又高又瘦，身材像豆杆一样。通常带有贬义。
"Or what about Tyra Banks, top modèle, whose classmates would make fun of her beanpole body and enormous forehead [ibid.]?"
诋毁，诽谤，污蔑
"Donatists regarded themselves as (true) Christians; Augustine smeared them as ‘the sect of Donatus’."
（在压力下）屈服、崩溃，支撑不住
"In their view, Catholics had been lax nearly a hundred years before in allowing priests who had buckled under the last imperial persecutions to resume their ministry once the emperor Constantine had extended state protection to Christianity."
充满裂痕的，分裂的（此处指教会内部存在严重分歧和派系斗争）
"On his return to Africa, and as a bishop from 395, Augustine confronted a deeply fissured church."
话语构成（指身份、知识等是通过语言和文本在社会互动中被建构出来的产物，而非先天、固定的事实）
"After all, identity is a discursive formation: it is constructed, contested and reshaped through texts."
（不自觉地）泄露秘密的，露馅的；暴露内情的
"His accent was sneered at; he regretted those telltale African vowels."
被（某种强大的力量）推动、驱使
"By the age of thirty – propelled by his tiger mother, Monnica – Augustine had landed one of the most prestigious posts in the Roman Empire as official orator to the imperial court, which had for nearly a hundred years been based in Milan."
（尤指珍贵文献）现存至今的，幸存下来的
"To give some sense of scale, that’s roughly 10 per cent of all the Latin literature extant from before 600 AD, comfortably more than the total published output of Charles Dickens or Anthony Trollope, and four times the magnitude of À la recherche du temps perdu."
（从复杂信息中）梳理出，精炼出，探究出
"Her focus isn’t on Augustine’s contributions to Western thought, or on his shaping of Christian theology, but on teasing out his identity as ‘both an African and a Roman’."
权宜之计，临时替代品，凑合着用的东西
"Local and imperial identities were makeshifts for a fractured humanity labouring to shape an inevitably inadequate sense of belonging."
（使）转变、嬗变（尤指向更高层次或更纯粹的形式转化）
"Perhaps Augustine’s most remarkable intellectual achievement is to have transmuted his sense of personal inadequacy into a sophisticated set of theological propositions."
（思想、回忆等）萦绕心头，挥之不去
"His criticism of empire is haunted by his own advocacy of state-sponsored coercion to deal with Donatist dissent."
（为己所用而）拉拢；吸收；将……纳入（自身）
"The tipping point was Catholic bishops’ success in co-opting the Roman state."
引爆点，临界点（指微妙变化积累到一定程度后，引发系统发生巨大、不可逆转变化的时刻）
"The tipping point was Catholic bishops’ success in co-opting the Roman state."