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短命，短暂，无常
"When we’re 50 years old, on the other hand, that same year represents only 2% of our lives, and we experience it with corresponding ephemerality and diminished gravitas."
合并，联合；凝聚成一体
"In recent years, these stray observations have coalesced into a chorus."
庄重，严肃，庄严；重要性
"When we’re 50 years old, on the other hand, that same year represents only 2% of our lives, and we experience it with corresponding ephemerality and diminished gravitas."
不安的，焦虑的，烦恼的
"A middle school teacher recounts how she finds herself “having these conversations with students … who are perturbed by the speed of life.”"
同情，怜悯；互相表达同情或惋惜
"This is particularly evident on sites like Reddit, where users now regularly commiserate over how rapidly the years are passing."
（法语医学术语）二联性精神病；指两个或以上的人共享相同的妄想或精神错乱状态。此处用作比喻。
"In some ways, the scale of this phenomenon resembles an episode of mass cognitive dissonance, or even a population-level folie à deux."
像弹弓发射一样猛然推进；弹射。此处用作动词。
"William James picked up where Janet left off, positing in “Principles of Psychology” that time moves more slowly for young people, who slingshot themselves into fresh experiences every day."
被迷住，被施了魔法般吸引
"We’ve long been ensorcelled by the passage of time."
（命运、时局的）变迁，盛衰兴败
"These evocative emblems of seasons, hours, and the vicissitudes they leave in their wake speak to the bittersweet relationship we’ve cultivated with this unit of measurement."
（德语的）二重身，面貌酷似自己但非亲非故的人；此处指镜中（或照片中）那个看似熟悉又陌生的自己。
"Whether in Proustian reveries, digital photo libraries, or the watchful doppelgänger that gazes out at us each morning, ever-so-slightly altered, we’re inclined to a tender wistfulness toward time..."
时代精神，时代思潮
"While this belief crept into the zeitgeist like a sly, slinking fog, the refrains are now so pervasive that they’ve started to supplant idle chatter on the weather."
取代，排挤掉（尤指通过策略或强力）
"Our focus has shifted from rejoicing in cloudless days or grousing over gloomy skies to fixating on the dizzying speed at which our lives are hurtling by."
电影或录影制作中被剪掉的片段，此处指M生活中的片段像电影删减镜头一样，零散而未经导演
"The fictional Portman has fictional thoughts in opulent settings and from inside the muted aquarium of a limousine moving through a city, like a series of outtakes from Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups."
无处不在的、极其普遍的
"Cusk seems to be seeking intimate knowledge of that which is ubiquitous but unattainable: the interior world of a projection."
被困住的状态，此处指名声对人的束缚，使人如同被困在自我中
"Fame is perhaps this tower, an ultimate entrapment in the self that is also a deliverance from it."
奢华的、富丽堂皇的（通常形容使人感到过度或令人印象深刻的环境）
"The fictional Portman has fictional thoughts in opulent settings and from inside the muted aquarium of a limousine moving through a city."
（叙事视角）全知的，指叙述者能洞悉所有人物的内心世界
"In the end, however, they decide to write in the omniscient third person."
（特指库斯克写作手法中）故意模糊、不明确指称事物的行为或策略
"This obfuscation is meant to slow us down, force us to contemplate experience rather than gliding by on the shorthand of nouns."
（此处指灵魂或角色的）转变、转化，尤其指从一个生命体进入另一个生命体的过程
"The suggestion of writing an autobiography, instead of a biography, implies transmutation."
葡式蛋挞，一种葡萄牙传统甜点，以酥皮和蛋奶馅著称
"'Pastel de nata', I thought to myself, after reading a passage in Kudos (2018) about a tart invented by nuns."
俚语，指狂热追求名人交往或关注的人，通常带有贬义和粗俗色彩
"We have archetypes – the name-dropper, the starfucker – for those who seek out proximity to fame."
（隐喻）水族箱式的封闭空间，形容名人在汽车中如观赏鱼般被隔绝、被观看的状态
"The fictional Portman has fictional thoughts in opulent settings and from inside the muted aquarium of a limousine moving through a city."
同情、理解，此处表示因自己也经历过同样的境遇而能体会对方的行为或处境
"As a journalist, I sympathise with this fantasy of total access to one's subject."
一种由个人魅力或名声造成的氛围影响，使周围的人改变感知和行为，常带有近乎魔幻或科技感的比喻色彩
"A celebrity entering a room produces a reality distortion field."
不可渗透的，液体或气体无法通过的
"Scientists knew that coal was studded with tiny holes, but they didn’t know why some types of coal allowed fluids to pass through them, while others were impermeable."
躲藏起来，隐居（在此语境中指专注于工作而几乎与外界隔绝）
"The week before Christmas 2025, five mathematicians were holed up in a classroom at ETH Zurich."
微量，一丁点（一种口语式极小量），常加‘a’使用
"If the probability is anywhere above the critical threshold, even just a smidge, then fluid covers nearly the entire transitive graph."
闪烁消逝，指灵感如同微光浮动般迅速消退不见
"They raced to confirm each detail, eager to get their idea down before it shimmered away — and heedless of the holiday."
不加注意的，掉以轻心的（行动时完全不考虑旁边次要因素、后果或外界期待）
"They raced to confirm each detail, eager to get their idea down before it shimmered away — and heedless of the holiday."
最终确定，彻底敲定（将零散部分明确固定成一个确定的结果）
"By Christmas, they’d nailed down a proof."
精神振奋、极感兴奋的（由于成就、成功或极具激动人心的事而充满活力）
"On the morning of December 17, exhilarated from the effort, they were convinced their idea was correct."
星罗棋布地布满了（小而且众多的东西，具有装饰性或结构性点缀的意味）
"Scientists knew that coal was studded with tiny holes, but they didn’t know why some types of coal allowed fluids to pass through them, while others were impermeable."
传播，蔓延（一种影响、效应或实体在网络中不断扩散的过程，数学模型术语）
"Percolation can describe many kinds of flow: the spread of a virus through a city, gas passing through a filter, or the propagation of a wildfire."
货真价实的新颖，不仅是表面不同，而是深层结构或者关键思想上毫不陈腐的创造性
"“If you zoom into every sentence in the proof, it feels very familiar and simple, but the way they put it all together is genuinely novel,” Nachmias said."
不足或稀缺的状态（相对于需求或理想而言，可用资源不足以满足）
差一点，几乎就要（达到某目标或状态），强调相距极近且略带紧张感
"The mood was electric: They were this close to a career-defining breakthrough."
决定职业生涯的；足以成为事业里程碑的
"The mood was electric: They were this close to a career-defining breakthrough."
岸线，水体与陆地之间相交的边界
"To prove that a large isolated pool of fluid is unlikely above the critical probability, the mathematicians assumed they had such a pool and studied the surrounding shoreline."
在同一位置上重合、（事件或属性）恰好同时发生
"If those streams coincided anywhere, the mathematicians would have a contradiction — their so-called finite pool of fluid would actually be part of an infinite sea."
五人一组的群体，五重奏（此处指五名数学家的合作关系）
"The fivesome showed that this made it nearly impossible to avoid the contradiction."
通过反复商讨或高强度工作把某个方案最终敲定成型（仿佛铁匠以铁锤锻造出成品）
"As they hammered out the last details of their paper, they suddenly saw that with a simple change, their argument could be drastically improved."
大幅地，激烈带有近乎激进程度的程度副词
"With a simple change, their argument could be drastically improved."
加速（进展、速度，或时间的推进）
"About a decade ago, the field began to accelerate again."
堡垒；指长期以来被认为极难攻克，因而被视为象征性坚城的问题
"“This was the one remaining fortress,” Nachmias said."
在外观或性质上与某事物相似（却非完全相同或同一体）
"As that deadline neared, they still had nothing resembling a proof."
（在严谨数学中）猜想或推测某事为真（但尚未有证据或证明）
"Benjamini and Schramm suspected that a version of the sharpness conjecture was true on all infinite transitive graphs."
纵横交织，（线条）从不同方向交叉穿越形成网状图案
"Was the infinite web a meadow crisscrossed with streams — or was it more like an ocean, swamping the entire graph?"
（课题中）最顺手且最容易取得的成果，隐喻唾手可得的部分
"Mathematicians working on this problem “did some very beautiful things, initiated the theory, picked all the low-hanging fruit,” Benjamini said."
大幅转向，改变策略方向，带着紧密的核心不变旋转至另一目标（原本比喻绕着一个轴心转动）
"So Easo suggested pivoting to sharpness."