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最高点；顶峰。来源于天文学，指月球或卫星轨道上距离地球最远的点，用于描述某一理念或运动影响力的最辉煌时期。
"The window for fundamental land reform closed with the armistice and never regained the political currency it held during the apogee of Georgism."
贪婪地、彻底地吸收或攫取。在本文中，指地主（landlords）不劳而获地将经济发展的全部好处攫取殆尽。
"When new infrastructure was built ... land prices went up, and landlords vacuumed up the benefits, at the expense of the people who built, used and funded those same developments."
初出茅庐的；无经验的。形容一个刚开始从事某职业或活动的人，即缺乏经验。
"Henry George was a fledgling journalist and failed publisher when his book Progress and Poverty was published in 1879."
内在性；存在其中。在文中指土地所具有的‘内在的’、‘本体的’且‘不变的’属性，作为其独特担保价值的来源。
"Gold can be stolen, grain can rot, but land’s immanence provides unique security."
因果关系的方向/指向。用来讨论在一个连锁反应中，谁是因、谁是果的核心问题。
"The **arrow of causality** runs counter to most textbook understandings of credit bubbles."
减弱；动摇；出现颓势。指本书的叙述在某一点上‘表现欠佳’或‘不够有力’。
"Where the narrative falters is in its insufficiently examined assumption that credit feeds asset bubbles, when, in fact, deliberate policy choices to protect land values cause credit expansion."
推断；推知。根据已知事实或经验，去推测未知或更广泛的事情。在本文中，指该书的论点是从美国的早期经验中‘推导’或‘扩展’而来的。
"The Land Trap extrapolates its primary argument from the early American experience."
瓶颈；阻碍系统或进程顺利运行的节点或因素。在本文中，指核心资产（土地）成为了一个关键的阻碍因素，卡住了政治进步。
"The centrality of land creates a choke point for political progress, while simultaneously creating an economic trap that inevitably requires government intervention or, put more simply, a bailout."
在本文语境中指‘破坏、瓦解’（政治秩序或社会结构），并非物理上的断裂，而是指一种内在的、根本性的破裂，导致其无法维持原状。
"Yet even when recounting the land bubbles of communist nations, the narrative is consistent: wealth concentrates, that concentration fractures the political order, and the land’s value is ultimately redistributed through credit creation that inflates an asset bubble until it cannot hold."
本体论安全（一种对于自我和世界之实在性、连续性和稳定性的基本、确信不疑的感受）
"The sense of ontological security these narratives promised amid perpetual turmoil spread the appeal among constituencies far and wide."
持续创造；创造的延续（神学概念，指上帝的创造行为不是一个过去的事件，而是一个持续的、正在进行的过程）
"Like the poet Goethe, he sees a dynamic, creative universe as a continuous 'divine' activity rather than a static set of laws for all time — creatio continua —in which humans are participants."
不可阻挡地；不可避免地（指某种趋势或力量强大到无法被阻止或改变）
"He worried that what he called the 'technicity' of instrumental means with no substantive end would inexorably prevail over the diminished soul."
技术性；技术化（指技术本身具有的、追求效率和工具最优化的内在逻辑和特质，忽略了伦理或精神目的）
"He worried that what he called the 'technicity' of instrumental means with no substantive end would inexorably prevail over the diminished soul."
认识论单一化（指只有一种有效的、被认可的认知方式，压倒并排除其他所有形式的知识与理解）
"Scharmer’s prime anxiety is what he calls 'an emerging epistemic monoculture.'"
关系性；关联性（指所有事物本质上都是相互关联、相互依存的本质状态）
"In our era, Scharmer sees a new axial shift toward 'collective interiority,' in which a new consciousness of the relationality of all being as an indivisible unity conjoins the subjective inner world with the outer world."
去嵌入化；抽离（个体从其所处的、固有的社会关系和地方性叙事的结构中脱离出来）
"The sociologist Charles Taylor called this process 'dis-embedding.'"
内在性；内心生活（指个人的思想、情感和反思的内心世界，与外部世界相对）
"That critical self-distancing capacity for reflection, or 'interiority,' enabled people to transcend their immediate circumstances, tribes and local narratives to become self-aware as individuals in the larger universe."
持久的；经久不衰的（在此上下文中与“texts”连用，指那些成为共同意义基础的经典文本）
"In the first Axial Age, the attainment of written language capacitated an inner life of reflection on the basis of abiding texts that created a platform for shared meanings."
使……成为可能；赋予……能力（在此上下文中指书面语言使内省生活成为可能）
"In the first Axial Age, the attainment of written language capacitated an inner life of reflection on the basis of abiding texts that created a platform for shared meanings."
（论点、政策等的）主旨、要点、核心推进方向
"The overall thrust of Magnifica Humanitas was fairly well anticipated and placed in the context of Western philosophy in a previous Noema essay, titled “Only God Can Save Us,” which we published after the Pontifical Academy meeting late last year."
虚幻的；不切实际的；产生错觉的
"The experience of recent decades shows that in economic and financial crises, it is always the poor who pay the highest price, while the theories that promise automatic general prosperity often prove to be illusory."
从一开始
"Instead of waiting for the benefits of growth to reach the poor eventually, decisions need to be taken to ensure that growth becomes inclusive from the outset."
预分配；即在初次分配阶段（市场机制内）就通过制度设计来创造更公平的财富分配结果，而非事后再通过税收等手段进行二次分配
"The MH articulates the idea of pre-distribution of wealth through universal basic capital, calling for “the just distribution of the benefits of innovation.”"
处于社会边缘的；被边缘化的
"In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins."
辅助性原则；即社会事务应由最小、最基层的团体或机构处理，高层机构只在其无法胜任时才应介入提供协助
"MH draws on earlier church teachings that place the values of “solidarity, subsidiarity and the universal destination of goods” as pillars of its social outlook."
万物的普遍归宿；即万物应服务于全人类共同福祉的原则
"MH draws on earlier church teachings that place the values of “solidarity, subsidiarity and the universal destination of goods” as pillars of its social outlook."
傲慢；狂妄自大（通常导致毁灭）
"In the encyclical’s biblical references, he pits the defiant hubris of the Tower of Babel against the building of the “City of God.”"
（在此语境下特指对AI的）裁军、解除武装；即消除危害、使其无害化
"The encyclical covers a broad range of issues, calling not only for “transparency, accountability and accessibility” of AIs, but for their “disarmament,” which Pope Leo defines as putting human spiritual needs and the common good above the dehumanizing race for efficiency and rank profitability."
史无前例的行动
"The pontiff introduced the document at a news conference alongside Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic — an unprecedented move that underscored the power of private technology companies in shaping society."
教皇；宗座
"The pontiff introduced the document at a news conference alongside Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic — an unprecedented move that underscored the power of private technology companies in shaping society."
代替；接替（某人或某物）
"It follows in the stead of his namesake’s 1891 encyclical “Rerum Novarum” on the welfare of workers as the Industrial Revolution was unfolding."
（罗马教皇颁布的）通谕
"This week, Pope Leo XIV issued his highly anticipated encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” on maintaining and promoting human rights, dignity, autonomy and distributive justice in the Age of AI."
（言语或行为）不符合议会礼仪的，粗鄙辱骂的
"The language throughout the video was, to put it mildly, unparliamentary."
（比喻义）盲目行事，在未意识严重后果的情况下陷入（某种不利境地）
"Europe is sleepwalking ever deeper into a free speech recession, guided by the very institutions supposed to sound the alarm."
（事实、差异等）鲜明的，赤裸裸的，令人不快的
"The implication is stark: online speech, precisely because it travels further and faster, warrants more restriction, not less."
（做坏事或违法后）不受惩罚，逍遥法外
"They were the same bus lanes that government officials sped down in their fancy vehicles with impunity."
充满脏话的，咒骂连篇的
"In other words, the ECHR conflated an expletive-laden social media rant with violence even though the comments..."
将（两个或多个不同的概念、想法、事件）合并、混为一谈
"In other words, the ECHR conflated an expletive-laden social media rant with violence even though the comments... included no threats, no intimidation, and no encouragement or incitement to actual violence."
无端的、恶意的诋毁或贬低
"Such “wanton denigration” solely intended to insult, the court argued, falls outside the protection of freedom of expression."
（言语上）质疑，非难，指责（某人的品格、动机、判断等）
"This did not amuse the impugned officials."
不成事件的事件——指原计划中重要但实际上毫无意义、毫无结果的事情
"So what would happen at the Republican convention? Might a non-event be interesting, anthropologically if not politically?"
一种不费力气、浑然天成、近乎无意识的优雅气质，魅力出自本能而非刻意
"'My first impression of him,' Barlow wrote in his memoir, Mother American Night, 'was that he was incredibly good-looking and had a kind of thoughtless grace.'"
智力明显下降，犹如脱落IQ分值
"Barlow said of those who flocked to glimpse him: 'You could see them just shedding IQ points as they approached.'"
愚蠢得像鱼饵一样——极蠢，蠢到任人宰割、毫无抵抗力
"By the time they got there they were as dumb as bait.'"
言语懊悔——指刚说完一句毫无意义、并非本意的话之后就立刻产生的后悔感
"He could bring on what I'll call 'speech regret' – when you say something for no reason, which you don't really mean and which has no point."
令人敬畏的、气势逼人的（用于描述RoseMarie Terenzio的性格给人带来的震慑感）
"My desk was in a booth by a low wall that separated me from John's secretary, the formidable RoseMarie Terenzio."
胎死腹中的大会——注定失败、从未真正产生过生命力的大会
"Deedes and Evans-Pritchard's way of covering the still-born convention was to hit the golf course."
败选者的集会——已经输掉提名的候选人仍举行的平行大会
"where Pat Buchanan, who had lost the nomination to Dole, was holding his convention-in-defeat."
（吝啬地、一点一点地）发放、施与（常用于惩罚或施舍的语境）
"But none of the snippets meted out about Bessette Kennedy … appeared to provide the key to understanding exactly why she, of all women, should have been the one to relieve John Kennedy of his bachelor status."
把某人从他的单身状态中解救出来（此处为幽默的委婉说法，意为“与他结婚”）
"But none of the snippets meted out about Bessette Kennedy … appeared to provide the key to understanding exactly why she, of all women, should have been the one to relieve John Kennedy of his bachelor status."