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厉声说，咆哮着说
"‘The church is spread throughout the whole world,’ Augustine barked to the Donatists. ‘What are you doing outside it?’"
使……对立；让……相互竞争或冲突
"The dispute between the African Church and the church in Africa, as Conybeare stresses, also ‘pitted his sense of himself as African … against his loyalty to the church in which he had been ordained’."
透彻理解的；包容的
"...described by Hermann Melville [...] as a man of 'great, genial, comprehending silences'..."
闪烁的；闪耀的（此处指文字精美动人）
"...in poet Muriel Rukeyser's shimmering words..."
称谓；修饰词（此处指合适的称呼）
"...for which I can myself suggest no more appropriate epithet..."
无形中消散；不知不觉地消失
"...the spirits have evaporated insensibly."
坩埚；严峻的考验；熔炉
"Because the mind is the crucible of experience and perception..."
萦绕心头的；难以忘怀的
"He understood that the haunting proximity of death is precisely why we can't afford to live a short distance from alive..."
令人心痛的；令人痛苦的
"Fatherless since the age of four, so achingly introverted he was reported to duck behind trees and rocks to avoid speaking with townspeople..."
和蔼可亲的；温和的
"...described by Hermann Melville [...] as a man of 'great, genial, comprehending silences'..."
卷帙浩繁的；大量的
"...takes up the question of what that means throughout his voluminous notebooks."
多产的；作品丰富的
"The most prolific diarist of all the Transcendentalists, Nathaniel Hawthorne..."
摊牌，最终对决，决定性较量
"With the future of Britain’s government in the balance, Makerfield—a few miles west of Manchester—was the setting for a dramatic showdown between the governing Labour Party and right-wing challengers Reform."
（辩论、论战中可用的）有力论据，炮弹
"For leader Kemi Badenoch, this will be much needed ammunition to prove that the Conservatives are still a threat to Reform."
（危难中的）一线生机，救命稻草，关键的生命线
"The one potential lifeline for whoever becomes Britain’s next prime minister is the fragmentation of the political right."
（令人厌烦地）持续很久的，拖延的，旷日持久的
"Worse still, he might launch a protracted leadership bid that would take most of the summer."
固执地，顽固地，倔强地
"But the prime minister has not yet signalled he will leave, and is obstinately clinging on."
（人员、体制的）频繁更迭与混乱状态
"As the churn of Conservative prime ministers over the past decade demonstrated, the polling bump enjoyed by fresh faces is only temporary."
（此处为比喻用法）在难以兼顾的选项中做出（通常有争议的）决策和权衡
"Burnham, likewise, would also face difficult arbitrage decisions."
（新项目、系统或管理层）初期遇到的困难
"On top of these ideological teething issues, Burnham would also inherit an incredibly tight fiscal situation."
（决策、控制或施加影响的）手段，杠杆
"London holds most levers over infrastructure spending and taxation."
强有力的，有说服力的，具有巨大影响力的
"It was a potent demonstration of the man’s political talents."
彻底击败，打得落花流水
"But Burnham trounced Kenyon with a surprise 20-point win last night."
（如同拔毛般）轻松夺取，轻易赢取
"The constituency is a historically safe seat for Labour, even staying true to its colours in the 2019 general election when Boris Johnson plucked most of Labour’s famed “red wall” seats in the north for the Conservatives."
风险，危险，危难境地
"Until last night’s results came in, Burnham’s bid seemed to face considerably more jeopardy than Makerfield’s history might suggest."
狂热地，高度紧张地，充满激动不安地
"British politicos have feverishly spent the last week with their eyes on the parliamentary by-election that took place in the northern constituency of Makerfield yesterday."
伺机攻击（某人）或谋求（某职位），志在必得
"Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester since 2017, has long been gunning for the top job."
未能造成实质性伤害，徒劳无功，未伤及要害
"The amateurish plotters resigned from the cabinet without drawing blood."
渴望成为烈士，即愿意为信仰或事业献身
"‘Even if the whole town dies we will continue to fight, we wish for death, we are people who aspire to martyrdom.’"
使它们（道路）无法通行
"All the main roads leading to the village had been hit with drone fire, rendering them impassable and isolating the town."
（使）分裂，分裂成碎片
"Would it split into factions, or fracture into cells to maintain its security?"
将大片区域夷为平地
"…before Israel upended the rules and unleashed a massive campaign that killed many senior figures in the party… and levelled large swathes of Beirut and south Lebanon."
陷入两难境地，进退维谷
"Hizbullah is in a bind, he told me. It has to provide services because the Lebanese state won’t, not because it wants to replace the state."
通过反复说教或训练，将某个观念强行灌输进某人脑海
"‘A Shia, from the moment he’s a child, his parents drill it into his head: education, education and more education.’"
以一种反问或不需要回答的方式来加强表达效果
"‘How many will die? Two hundred, three thousand, ten thousand?’ he asked rhetorically."
被（黑色衣物）遮盖或包裹着，引申为遮蔽、隐藏
"Since the 1980s, the name Dahieh has often been followed by the phrase ‘Hizbullah’s stronghold’, conjuring images of bearded men with green bandanas and Kalashnikovs and women shrouded in black shuffling past posters of martyrs…"
在脑海中唤起某种特定的画面或印象
"Since the 1980s, the name Dahieh has often been followed by the phrase ‘Hizbullah’s stronghold’, conjuring images of bearded men with green bandanas and Kalashnikovs and women shrouded in black shuffling past posters of martyrs…"
贫困带，指代城市周边贫穷、被忽视的社区聚集区
"From the early 1970s, on the eve of the civil war, these new settlements were often referred to as the ‘belt of misery’, and they became fertile recruiting grounds for leftist and communist organisations, and later for Islamist militants."
在时间维度上；局限于时间框架内地
"'We live temporally, deluded. Not here, not us. Of all people, I should have known better.'"
坚忍的/斯多葛式的（在痛苦中保持平静和克制）
"But she remains stoic. 'It will all be funnier in the retelling,' she thinks."
熵的/热力学无序的（此处用作隐喻：不可逆的衰败或混乱状态）
"Increasingly disorientated, Selima gets lost in an entropic haze."
理性主义者（相信理性和科学证据高于信仰/情感的人）
"Even Selima, the perfect 'rationalist', begins to have hallucinations."
（英式粗俚）白痴、混蛋（侮辱性用语）
"When Jude relates his ecstatic experience to his wife, she makes him feel 'like a tosser'."
泄气的、令人扫兴的（使亢奋或期望突然跌落）
"But some of her dark, deflating style survives."
狂喜的、极度喜悦的（如同出神的欢呼）
"His thoughts give way to a riot of rapturous dashes."
完全失掉的、被剥夺的（通常带悲伤或无望感）
"He feels like a 'comet' as he soars 'up above the world' and 'away from its hold'."
（精神上的）交融、沟通（通常带神秘或宗教色彩）
"A similarly bewildering communion occurs when Jude, a gruff, traumatised policeman turned glider pilot, flies through Helm."
被深深震慑（因敬畏而沉默或顺从）
"People are suddenly swept off their feet by Helm or overawed by its presence."
（逐渐、难以察觉地）渗入（常指情感或氛围的缓慢渗透）
"Something of this new-found positivity seeps into the later parts of the novel."