Vocabulary

（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."

铺张华丽的表演或活动；盛大奢华的场面

"...and the extravaganza of The Roses of Heliogabalus."

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..."

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...”"

心灵层面的圆满结合或达成；一种精神上的、超自然的完美融合或实现。

"The slip of the blade triggered psychic consummation between the marmoreal and silent Burroughs and Gysin, a compulsive tale-teller and exquisite gossip..."

（尤指静脉）注射毒品；比喻：全盘接受、沉浸于、或体验（某种强烈的感受、思想或权力）。

"As privileged victims mainlining paranoia, they were readily seduced by systems of control."

侨居他国、依靠家人从国内汇钱生活的男人（通常带有贬义，指被家庭“流放”以避免其丑闻或尴尬）。

"A spectral remittance man in a Paris waiting room, hoping to escape our dying planet, but too soon for Elon Musk, Burroughs recognised Gysin’s breakthrough."

蜕去、摆脱、抛弃（某物，尤指习惯、传统、身份或身体组织），如蛇蜕皮。

"Both men were dedicated to sloughing off limitations of race, caste and gender, singular identities."

大理石般的；冰冷、僵硬、沉默、缺乏表情的（尤指像雕像一样）

"The slip of the blade triggered psychic consummation between the marmoreal and silent Burroughs and Gysin, a compulsive tale-teller and exquisite gossip..."

（记忆或意象）极其清晰和逼真的；具有摄影式记忆的。

"Serial compositions hovered between painting and language... to splashes and blots of brilliant eidetic coral..."

普世性的；促进或倡导（所有基督教派别）团结的；广泛的、普遍的。

"Gysin, as practising magician, trance dancer, multifaith occultist, understood the true state of things."

非法侵入；冒犯、打扰；滥用。在这个语境下：进入、踏入（某人的领地，带有一种冒犯或不请自来的意味）。

"My hurried trespass on Gysin’s turf did not go unpunished."

警棍；短棒。此处用于比喻：一根大麻烟（keef）。

"I was close to the finish, the moment when Gysin’s narrator, an obvious avatar in a black skin, is escaping on a train with a forbidden truncheon of keef secreted in his pants, while trying to pull together all the strands of an epic tangle of memories and inventions."

灰色调的匿名性；形容一种不引人注目、中性、如同从彩色照片中被剥离成一个灰度图像的模糊存在状态。

"Famous for his greyscale anonymity, Burroughs was the invisible man time-trapped in a thousand squid-soft photographs."

廉价旅馆、低级客栈（通常设施简陋、卫生状况差）。

"He worked with his scrapbooks, recorder and camera, in flophouses and celebrity-enhanced bunkers."

喋喋不休、没完没了的闲聊或废话。

"By excising slack prose and weaving royalty, terror outrages and a death-row rapist into an ecstatic rush, Burroughs would determine the future by recalibrating the wrecked present from the yatter of the most formulaic journalism."

（文学、艺术或音乐作品的）模仿作品；东拼西凑的混合物。

"The poem managed to pastiche my stumbling attempts at employing the right question."

（猎狐用语）将狐狸赶回洞里；比喻：迫使某人（或某物）回到它原本隐藏或存在的地方。

"It was the humour of his eccentric and ecumenical gods to earth Gysin in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, in a Canadian military hospital that is now the site of a retirement village."

超自然的；异常的、不可思议的（据说超出自然规律的，但通常不涉及神或魔）。

"Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, high-capitalist juju with its social and sexual entanglements as an extension of the souk."

好色的、淫秽的；热衷于描写或谈论性事的。

"He was a terrific raconteur. He would tell salacious stories about the goings on of people one had never heard of, then it would turn out they were from the court of Louis XIV …"

先驱；预兆；先兆（尤指不好的事物）

"Tocqueville didn’t believe ... That American democracy was a curious statistical outlier. But it was a harbinger of what happens when an idea is allowed to operate unchecked by the forces that constrain it elsewhere."

（尤指因年老而）颤巍巍的，步履蹒跚的，衰弱的

"The holding of federal judicial offices for life was one such check: no kicking individuals off the bench just because the people have grown tired of their doddery ways."

面无表情的；一本正经的；故作严肃的

"She looked at me as though I were mad. She was there, she said, as po-faced as any old-timer, to represent her constituents. And her constituents were old."

僵化的；固步自封的；缺乏活力的（常用于形容体制或社会）

"By global standards, the American population is ageing but not especially elderly, mature but not yet sclerotic."

不够的东西；令人不满的替代品；空头支票（比喻意义）

"Telling a teenager not to be too grabby for the assets of the old because he or she will one day be old too seems like thin gruel in the current climate."

九十多岁的人；九旬老者

"The prospect of finding yourself face to face with a nonagenarian judge is one version of gerontocracy in America."

老人统治；由老年人掌权的政体或社会制度

"The Trump-Biden debate stands as an indictment of America’s political system: something has gone badly wrong when an elderly politician with Trump’s flaws of character and competence can be provided with a platform that presents him as the vigorous option. But as Samuel Moyn argues in his powerful new book, it is a mistake to fixate on the age of recent presidential candidates ... as emblematic of what he calls ‘gerontocracy in America’."

恍然大悟的时刻；豁然开朗的瞬间（指某个事实或真相突然被理解）

"The penny-drop moment for me came earlier this year when I read that Alvin Hellerstein, the judge presiding in the federal case against Nicolás Maduro, is 92 years old."

（船只）定期往返于（某航线）；忙于经营（某业务）

"A 2024 survey by the IMO indicated that only 1 per cent of the nearly two million seafarers plying the waves are women, and most of them work on cruise ships or passenger ferries."

愉快友好的，欢乐的（尤指社交场合的气氛）

"The neighbourhoods Attewell sketches teem with life and complex, mostly convivial, social relations."

充满，丰富（指某处或某物中人或事物非常之多、非常活跃）

"The neighbourhoods Attewell sketches teem with life and complex, mostly convivial, social relations."

由……产生的，源于……（指某种态度、情绪或事物的起源）

"Racism also played out in Hong Kong, where colonial subjects of mixed racial descent were barred from buying homes in the exclusive neighbourhood of Victoria Peak."

七十多岁的人

"The other two passengers on board, sailing from Hamburg all the way to Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia, were German septuagenarian widows who preferred travelling by freighter to the ‘false sociality’ of cruise ships."

戒律，准则，箴言（尤指指导行为的规则）

"Pirates transgressed the law of the sea, the sovereignty of imperial metropoles, the rules of property and precepts of bourgeois decency – and women pirates doubly so."

讲述生动离奇、扣人心弦的故事（尤指亲身经历的趣闻轶事）

"He was jovial and bald and loved to spin colourful yarns about life at sea."

开胃酒（通常在饭前饮用以刺激食欲）

"...a suitcase full of dry Riesling, which was their aperitif at 5 p.m. every day on their deck, an hour before the appointed dinner time."

花天酒地的行为，放荡不羁（尤指过度追求感官享乐、纵欲）

"Seamen are notorious for their portside debauchery, even as most of them long for their families."

反复无常，任性（尤指没有明显缘由的突发奇想）

"...global events and the caprice of shipowners sometimes lead to longer confinement."

高效的，务实的，有条理的（不带感情色彩的）

"The woman cadet was businesslike and confident."

男人带有女子气的，柔弱的 (通常带有贬义，暗示懦弱、缺乏阳刚之气)

"Male seafarers from the Global South also reported bullying and harassment by white officers who saw them as effeminate, submissive or soft."

(体力劳动) 极为艰苦繁重的

"They may love the adventure of going to sea, but their everyday work is tedious and backbreaking."

庞然大物，巨兽；巨大而笨重的东西

"Corte Real was a behemoth: 366 metres in length with a 51-metre beam."

触犯，逾越（法律、道德界限或社会规范）

"Pirates transgressed the law of the sea, the sovereignty of imperial metropoles, the rules of property and precepts of bourgeois decency – and women pirates doubly so."

(船的)吃水深度

"When laden, its draught was 16 metres deep, which meant that in shallow waters like the Persian Gulf it had to keep to the designated dredged channels."

像瀑布般落下或连接排列

"The rest of the officers cascaded down the table according to rank."

受到热烈赞扬或宴请的，备受推崇的

"Although Patten was fêted in the press, she found herself short of money after Joshua’s death."