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微不足道的人或事物；小事一桩
"At its peak, the Rad Lab absorbed close to $4 million per month and employed 4000 people – small beer compared to the more charismatic Manhattan Project, though it employed twice as many academic physicists."
猛撞，猛击；使猛烈碰撞
"Lawrence built cyclotrons, complex instruments that used electric and magnetic fields to accelerate charged particles to enormous energies and then smash them into target materials."
强行介入，主动插手（与自己无关或不请自来之事）
"He inserted himself into the controversy over whether there had been a ‘second gunman’ in the Kennedy assassination (there hadn’t), suggested an explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs (it was caused by the impact of an enormous asteroid), and used radiation-detection techniques in an effort to establish whether there were as yet undiscovered chambers in the Egyptian pyramids (there weren’t)."
放逐，流放；被迫离开或退出（某一领域或圈子）
"For Oppenheimer, as its scientific director, it brought first power, then fame, then banishment."
（尤指文章、文体或思想）清晰的，透明的，易懂的
"He wrote limpid essays on the nature of science, directed the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and, after the withdrawal of his security clearance in 1954, emerged as a tragic hero of the American left."
使变形，使变质；彻底改变（某事物的本质或形态）
"The Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bomb, transmuted pure theory into mass slaughter, and it changed everything for the scientists who did the work."
稍大的，颇大的
"It’s not possible,’ he says: the massive uranium atom is too stable; splitting it into two other largish nuclei would go against all previous findings about nuclear interactions."
理发理到一半时
"Oppenheimer, who hasn’t yet heard, sees an excited Alvarez dashing out of a barber shop mid-haircut, newspaper in hand."
小角色；无足轻重的部分
"Luis Alvarez gets only a bit part in Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer."
（事业等的）跳板，起点
"For Alvarez, the bomb was a launchpad to a brilliant life as an experimental physicist and counsellor to the Cold War state."
（在困难或失败前）弃船而逃；离开（某个处境或组织）
"Alvarez wasn’t the first bubble-chamber physicist to jump ship, nor were his reasons unique."
对…表示愤怒、被激怒；昂首表示不服从
"‘His behaviour put everyone’s nerves on edge,’ a colleague said, eroding the lab’s morale and the quality of its work; others bridled at his tendency to humiliate students and colleagues when they didn’t perform to his standards."
使某人富有，让某人发财
"‘It should have made me rich,’ he said."
不妥协的，不让步的，固执己见的
"William Press, another Jason member, was delegated to negotiate with Alvarez, but he proved intransigent."
(公司) 上市，公开发行股票
"Alvarez was on the board of IBM and he was one of the original directors of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation when it went public – again, courtesy of connections made at Bohemian Grove."
按成本价
"He was introduced to the club by one of the key figures in both the Rand Corporation and the Ford Foundation, and a special arrangement was made that he get a new automobile every year at cost."
近乎于（某种狂热信念或主义的）传道；近乎狂热鼓吹
"Alvarez’s politicking for the project was crucial to its success: a colleague wrote that his ‘zeal for doing physics in this big way bordered on evangelism’."
（描述设备或事物）巨大的，巨型的，庞然大物
"He made his own versions of the chamber, first two inches in diameter, then four inches, then ten, and finally, in 1959, a 72-inch monster."
瓶颈；阻碍流程进展的环节或因素
"But there was a problem: the accelerators could make all sorts of particles, but they needed to be detected. There were bottlenecks in the design and construction of instruments to detect, identify and represent the particles produced by smashed atoms."
一种如闪光灯般瞬间、敏锐的智力/智慧
"This is an image of a 20th-century woman in control of the means of production, with flashbulb intelligence, projecting control over the audience's idea of her."
互相肯定的；彼此都表现出自信和宣告性的
"...all of it working together to create a mutually assertive vision of desire."
（尤指女装的领口）极低的，深V形的
"This is the kind of shot that could easily be mistaken for cheesecake – the plunging gold lamé dress caused Joan Crawford to reach for the smelling salts..."
（摄影中）展示女性曲线美的性感照片（略带贬义或指其肤浅）
"This is the kind of shot that could easily be mistaken for cheesecake – the plunging gold lamé dress caused Joan Crawford to reach for the smelling salts – but it's actually one of the last great movie star portraits of Hollywood's golden era."
逐渐灌输；注入（思想、感情、品质等）
"She had a sense of where the light would fall and how the fantasy would be instilled."
被完全剥夺的；感到缺失的；空虚的
"When the compositional duties fall to a painter, the result is often stunning but bereft: Marilyn isn't there."
无法抹除的；难以忘记的
"...but after a while she is there again, as indelible and as light-giving as the star we want her to be."
客观对应物；指一组能唤起特定情感的对象、情境或事件链
"Now I can see that her movie star image was a sort of objective correlative, a source of light, and there was something obsessive-compulsive in my sense of her perfection."
（在此语境下）精炼、提炼、萃取（出自己最本质的特质）
"...she looks pensive, sometimes worried, allowing the camera to see her uncertainty. ...shows her experimenting with more natural ways of distilling herself."
（摄影）抓拍；非摆拍的真实照片
"Sometimes called 'Sad Marilyn' and claimed as a candid shot between more posed ones, I don't believe it is anything but a piece of method acting by Marilyn."
（衣料、绘画等）薄而透明的；半透明的；轻盈飘逸的
"...capturing her as a blurred, diaphanous heroine out of Renoir."
难以估量的，无法计算的 (形容价值或贡献巨大到无法用金钱衡量)
"We will bear witness to sporting immortality but also sporting infamy: the fluffed shots, missed penalties and red cards that in a nanosecond condemn men of inestimable talent, accomplishment and wealth to the status of eternal losers."
搞砸的，失误的 (在体育语境中指本该轻易成功的动作却表现糟糕，如射门打飞)
"We will bear witness to sporting immortality but also sporting infamy: the fluffed shots, missed penalties and red cards that in a nanosecond condemn men of inestimable talent, accomplishment and wealth to the status of eternal losers."
亲眼见证 (在此处意为亲身经历或目睹某一重大历史事件的发生，带有一种庄重感)
"We will bear witness to sporting immortality but also sporting infamy: the fluffed shots, missed penalties and red cards that in a nanosecond condemn men of inestimable talent, accomplishment and wealth to the status of eternal losers."
(体育场草坪) 倾斜 (指为排水而设计的人造斜坡, 此处语境为场地因积水而变得泥泞)
"West Germany, the hosts, beat Poland on a waterlogged pitch that nullified the pacy Polish wingers; and el Robo del Siglo (the robbery of the century), Argentina’s ref-attributed defeat to England in the 1966 quarter-final."
永存的，不朽的（在此语境中修饰stereotypes，指这些刻板印象极其顽固、难以消除）
"It is a global soap opera with a cast of geographically varying heroes and villains and imperishable stereotypes."
（经过努力）获得，取得；采购
"...have gone about procuring the means for warfare."
受到持续且猛烈的、密集的（通常指军事）攻击
"Though pounded regularly by Russia, not least with hypersonic missiles as well as waves of drones, Ukraine has achieved the once unimaginable."
由此类推；进而；更广泛地说
"The experience of the war in Ukraine is upending the way the American military-industrial complex, and by extension the complexes of other great powers..."
充满……的；备有……的；有……充实的
"...the conventional odds were that Russia’s post-Cold War military prowess, replete with a world-class nuclear arsenal, would readily conquer its former Soviet republic..."
尤其；特别；相当重要地
"Though pounded regularly by Russia, not least with hypersonic missiles as well as waves of drones, Ukraine has achieved the once unimaginable."
彻底颠覆；使……发生根本性改变
"The experience of the war in Ukraine is upending the way the American military-industrial complex, and by extension the complexes of other great powers, have gone about procuring the means for warfare."
促进；培养；鼓励（某事物的发展或增长）
"Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has moved on from fostering AI development at the tech giant to founding companies..."
卓越的技艺、能力或勇武，尤指在战斗或军事方面
"...the conventional odds were that Russia’s post-Cold War military prowess, replete with a world-class nuclear arsenal, would readily conquer its former Soviet republic..."
之前被认为不可能发生或想象不到的事情
"...Ukraine has achieved the once unimaginable. It has increasingly brought the war deep into the Russian homeland..."
使（某人或某物）遭受（打击、痛苦等）
"Similarly, the most damage done to the integral infrastructure of the oil-and-gas-rich U.S.-allied Gulf States at the height of the hot war with Iran was inflicted by inexpensive drone swarms launched by the theocratic state."
神权政治的；由宗教领袖或神权统治的
"...was inflicted by inexpensive drone swarms launched by the theocratic state."
充满错误、错误百出，字面意为'像筛子一样满是窟窿'的错误
"Sophisticated, but still 'riddled with errors. It is a decent forgery but no masterpiece.'"
高明的伪造品，指工艺精密、足以以假乱真的人工作假
"While other scholars had expressed doubts about the book's authenticity, it was Wilding who, detective-like, brought together much of the evidence to show that SNML was a sophisticated twenty-first century forgery."
（费力地）搜集、点滴地收集信息，指学者从书中艰难获取并整合信息的过程
"'Having gleaned more information from it than from any other book ever printed, with the possible exceptions of the Gutenberg Bible and the Shakespeare First Folio,' writes scholar Nick Wilding on the Galileo's O project, 'they concluded this was indeed Galileo's previously unknown copy.'"
颠覆地球中心说的、震碎传统世界观的，兼有'开创性'和字面'打破地球'的双关意义
"Five hundred and fifty copies of the slim, literally earth-breaking book were originally published by a Venetian printer."