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令人感动地不安（情感矛盾的状态，指儿子的担忧具有某种温柔的特质）
"His son is touchingly uneasy about the rights and wrongs of his father’s actions."
自我质疑的；不断反省的（形容人对自己行为的道德正当性进行持续审视）
"So was Leo himself, in common with other self-questioning Dutch forced workers."
常去之地（特指一群体经常聚集的场所）
"once the favourite haunt of Weimar-period literati"
秘密抵抗（指在占领政权下的隐蔽反抗活动）
"Should he have refused conscription and joined the clandestine resistance?"
引人入胜的见证者（能够激发好奇心的历史参与人）
"In some ways, Leo Buruma is the most intriguing witness here."
秘密营救（指在非法状态下的隐藏援助行动）
"the memoirs of Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, a journalist involved in the clandestine rescue of Jews"
壮丽；宏伟（形容令人惊叹的景象和规模）
"when confronted by the magnificence of a great European metropolis"
考文垂化（纳粹创造的德语新词，指将一座城市炮轰为瓦砾）
"The verb Coventrisieren – to bomb a town to rubble – joined the Nazi vocabulary."
毁灭；消亡（指被彻底摧毁或失去生机）
"But the cultural splendour that awed him was about to perish"
暗指；隐约暗示（此处指出词语的潜在含义）
"That last word also hints at something left over, an unlikely survival."
狗食盘边缘的残渣（比喻极其微不足道的剩余物）
"A scrap left on the edge of a dog's dish goes much too far, but a blackened somebody crawling out of his ruined house after a thousand-bomber raid – he's pretty übrig."
黑色幽默（以荒诞、病态或痛苦题材制造笑点的幽默形式）
"'Stay alive' doesn't quite get the Berlinisch black humour of the original"
目光锐利、热衷社交的人（矛盾修饰法：将敏锐洞察力与享乐主义者结合）
"or the sharp-eyed party animal 'Missie' Vassiltchikov, a Russian exile who was the darling of young men in the Foreign Ministry."
备受宠爱/追捧的人（在特定群体中的宠儿）
"a Russian exile who was the darling of young men in the Foreign Ministry."
被炸弹啃噬过的（比喻性形容词，描述建筑物受弹片侵蚀的伤痕）
"A wall of the Victoria and Albert Museum stays bomb-bitten in the same way."
未能报到（指故意缺席官方登记或集合要求）
"In fact, he did fail to report for transfer to Germany."
被熏黑的人（此处指炸弹袭击后满身烟尘的幸存者）
"a blackened somebody crawling out of his ruined house after a thousand-bomber raid"
没有垮掉（在巨大压力下保持完整）
"'Berliners, like Londoners, or indeed the citizens of Tokyo, Hanoi and many other cities since then, lived through far worse bombings without cracking.'"
猛攻；倾泻（猛烈且持续的进攻）
"Goebbels thought that the onslaught actually hardened the Berliners' will to fight on"
闪电战创伤（比喻性指代伦敦大轰炸留下的物理和精神伤痕）
"London remembers its Blitz wounds with pride."
增加了新的歌词（为熟悉歌曲添加改写内容）
"Christmas came, with 'Silent Night' now including some new lines ('Adolf Hitler is Germany’s star./Showing us greatness and glory afar')."
普遍的狂欢乐（在毁灭背景下的狂欢）
"Later, as the bombing began to reduce the centre of the city to ruins, the young Ursula von Kardorff described 'a general frenzy of pleasure … Not terribly nice, really, this dancing on a volcano, simply because people want to use their homes before they have to move into mass shelters.'"
被强征入伍/劳役（在非自愿情况下被强制征召）
"His Dutch father, Leo, was conscripted by the Nazi occupiers to work in a Berlin factory."
错失良机；未能抓住机会（此处指未能传达原文的微妙含义）
"The title of this book misses a trick."
被盟军处决（处以绞刑）
"Frick survived to be hanged by the Allies after the war."
再生/重组必然意味着进步（spells=预示/意味着）
"Regeneration, in fact, typically spells advance, the pauses in the rhythm of life helping successively to swell its harmony."
撕裂的/劈开的（此处指“被恐惧撕裂”——内心被一分为二）
"...a pause riven by fear, for the paradox of transformation is that we are always terrified of even the most propitious change..."
吉祥的；有利的（带有命运眷顾之意）
"...we are always terrified of even the most propitious change..."
清算；面对与对质（尤指对痛苦真相的直面与清算）
"...in her poignant reckoning with despair that..."
蛹（这里作隐喻：指痛苦的转变期——介于死亡与重生之间的阶段）
"Not until the days of this period of chrysalis life have been painfully accomplished can he emerge a new and glorified creature..."
孕育着通往新生命力的途径（比喻：绝望状态被赋予了潜在转变的可能性）
"Somehow the despondency thus treated becomes pregnant with an access to new vitality."
生命活力的迸发/冲刺（指一段短暂但强劲的生机勃发期）
"At times, however, a vital spurt dies out, and the outlook is flat and dreary."
对过程屈服/顺服（指主动放弃控制权，信任自然流程，具有深刻的精神意涵）
"In such times, the most courageous thing we can do is surrender to the process that is the pause..."
点燃火炬之光（隐喻：在黑暗中创造新方向的启示）
"...trust the still dark place to kindle the torchlight for a new path and vitalize our forward motion..."
令人心碎的；痛切而深刻的（用于描述情感上的强烈刺痛）
"The poet May Sarton knew this when she observed in her poignant reckoning with despair that..."
迷失方向；心理和认知上的混乱与茫然状态
"Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems..."
紧张症；精神运动性停滞状态（这里用作比喻，指极度痛苦和困惑导致的功能瘫痪）
"...the entire system seems to cave in and curl up into a catatonia of anguish and confusion..."
享乐主义的；以追求快乐为人生最大目标的
"His Rome is very much a hedonistic society."
颠覆；暗中破坏（常规、信仰或权力系统）
"‘...until we decipher the imagery, which invariably subverts apparent meaning,’ writes Barrow."
极其富裕、奢华、丰饶的状态；财富的巨大和炫耀性展示
"...and to marvel at the magnificence, opulence, and utter decadence,” writes Rosemary Barrow..."
道德或文化上的堕落、颓废；特指因为过度追求享乐而产生的衰败
"...and to marvel at the magnificence, opulence, and utter decadence,” writes Rosemary Barrow..."
古代（尤指古罗马和古希腊时期）；古代遗物
"...Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was more interested in depictions of Classical antiquity."
（尤指人的言行）温文尔雅的、彬彬有礼的、老于世故的
"‘...they are drawn from the witty, urbane, and carefree world of Latin love poetry...’"
狂欢作乐，特别是在饮酒方面；痛饮寻欢
"Through his paintings, “We are to be fascinated by the idle rich at their leisure, to delight with the revellers who carouse and the lovers who make love...”"
感官享受的快感；艳丽；肉感
"The voluptuousness of the atmosphere evokes a mood of nineteenth-century literary decadence."
（被动语态）布满、点缀着（像鞋钉一样突出的物体）
"...his head crowned with a tiara and his clothes studded with jewels."
（常用于女王、公主等戴的）皇冠状头饰；有时也指教皇的三重冠
"...his head crowned with a tiara and his clothes studded with jewels."
破译、解读（难懂的、神秘的或编码的信息）
"‘...until we decipher the imagery, which invariably subverts apparent meaning,’ writes Barrow."
寄生虫；（比喻义）靠他人供养的人，食客
"“In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling Heliogabalus once overwhelmed his parasites with violets and other flowers, so that some of them were actually smothered to death...”"