Vocabulary

幽灵般的；鬼魂似的；超自然的

"In Field of Dreams (1989), a spectral voice whispers to midwestern farmer Ray Kinsella that 'If you build it, he will come.'"

（比喻）过分甜腻的；感情上做作的；假惺惺的

"But Biden's syrupy description of the sprawling site in Licking County as a 'field of dreams' was suggestive of additional hopes."

为……命名；正式命名为……（常带有仪式感或象征性）

"Officially Intel Ohio One, it was christened 'Silicon Heartland' by the firm's chairman Patrick Gelsinger."

充满……的；承载着……的（尤指沉重或复杂的含义）

"Now, Licking County was freighted with history and expectation."

沉重而缓慢地移动；滚滚前行

"Occasionally, as a state official, politician, or corporate executive spoke, another construction vehicle trundled along far behind them, moving over a vast expanse of cleared, soon-to-be-disturbed earth."

崭新的；完好如初的；未经破坏的

"From one digger's boom draped a huge, pristine American flag."

杰出人物；权威人士；知名人士（在特定领域发光发热的人）

"A parade of luminaries spoke in front of two yellow Beaver diggers."

在此上下文中指观察或分析某一历史时期的特定角度或立场

"The reality was more complicated, as historian Gregory E. O’Malley explores from the vantage point of Charleston, South Carolina."

在此上下文中指不同的人群、经济活动因奴隶贸易而汇集到同一地点

"This convergence of people drew other economic activity, creating niches for shopkeepers, doctors, and lawyers."

在此上下文中指一种早期、尚未完全成型的资本主义形态，与南方的奴隶制农业经济相对

"Looking back at the era of the American Revolution, we often view the southern colonies and their dependence on enslavement as rural and old-fashioned, in contrast to the urban proto-capitalism of the North."

在此上下文中指奴隶贸易与Charleston城镇发展之间相互促进、效果叠加的协同关系

"Although slavery is sometimes cast as premodern, understanding the importance of the slave trade to a wide variety of Charleston's merchants, artisans, and professionals suggests the synergy between the traffic in people and the town's growth."

在此上下文中指商人利用对奴隶的投资来获取更大的经济收益或扩大贸易网络

"Meanwhile, even prior to industrialization, the trafficking of enslaved people helped build a merchant capitalist class that leveraged investment in human beings to expand trading networks."

在此上下文中指被奴役、被强迫劳动且失去自由的状态

"A person arriving in bondage might meet people of many ethnicities and languages from various African communities and from the Caribbean, as well as enslaved people born in South Carolina."

在此上下文中指因尸体腐烂而产生的恶臭气味

"In the spring of 1769, Charleston residents complained that ships carrying enslaved people had dropped so many bodies of captive Africans into the harbor that it created a putrid smell and a public health hazard."

在此上下文中形容奴隶们穿的衣服因长期磨损而破烂不堪、磨得能看到线

"Merchants in fine suits rode in carriages or on sedan chairs while enslaved people lugging carts and crates wore dirty, threadbare clothing and could be publicly whipped or burned to death for misbehavior."

在此上下文中指由奴隶贸易催生的特定商业或职业领域/市场需求

"This convergence of people drew other economic activity, creating niches for shopkeepers, doctors, and lawyers."

被冰层覆盖的，如同面纱般遮掩的

"At this moment, a spacecraft is headed from Earth to Europa, an ice-veiled moon of Jupiter thought to contain an ocean similar in some ways to one of our own."

被精细调整并被筛选过滤（原文指地球水的化学成分经过地质、大气和生命过程反复修改）

"Perhaps it’s hard to find a perfect extraterrestrial match for our planet’s watery chemistry because it’s such a diverse cocktail — one that’s also been tweaked and filtered over time by Earth’s geologic, atmospheric, and biologic processes."

勤劳、勤勉、自生能力（原文中指地球能“自己动手”产生水的能力）

"There is another possibility, one that relies not on cosmic chance, but on our planet’s own industriousness: Earth made most of its water by itself."

被淹没的（原文意为：被大片水域覆盖的）

"Multiple asteroids or comets would have had to impact Earth after its superhot magma ocean phase to produce the inundated world we live on today."

起源、出处、（本文指）水源的来历 / 来源

"When it comes to the provenance of Earth’s water, 'the community is probably more favorable of asteroids than comets these days,' King said."

决定性的打击、致命一击（在辩论或理论层面）

"But the hammer blow arrived in 2014 when ... Rosetta mission ... found that it contained the highest concentration of deuterium of any comet we’ve measured."

引起科学界的高度关注、惊讶或质疑（隐喻性的凝神关注）

"What raised scientific eyebrows was Giotto’s measurement of something called the D/H ratio."

陨石学家，专攻陨石研究的科学家

"Asteroids — rockier and more metal-rich than comets — then became the most popular choice... said Ashley King, a meteoriticist at the Natural History Museum in London."

原始的，远古的（特指地球历史早期）

"In all likelihood, these icy relics ... brought water with them when they rained down on a primeval Earth."

溪流，细小的水流

"not the cold distance of space, but / the offering of water, each drop of rain, / each rivulet, each pulse, each vein."

性价比极高（非正式比喻），投入产出比大

"Compared to asteroids, comets give you 'a lot of bang for your buck,' said James Bryson, a meteoriticist at the University of Oxford."

近距离的、贴身观察的；亲身、非间接的接触

"It would be the first spacecraft to get an up-close-and-personal look at a comet’s icy heart."

（尤指话语或行为）暗示的，曲意示好的，悄然潜入的

"There are items of insinuating familiarity: ‘I’ve got a picture of Granny with a hat like that.’"

（表面的）硬壳状覆盖物，镶嵌物

"Norman Hartnell supplies silky flamboyance and encrustations: lace re-embroidered with sequins and crystals."

谄媚的，奉承的，过分讨好的

"It is a fascinating and fawning exhibition."

(房屋等)无人居住的；空的；没有被占据的

"Untenanted frocks in a glass case are specimens; pictured among furnishings, they become fabric phantoms and look incomplete."

行屈膝礼的，（喻）卑躬屈膝的，毕恭毕敬的

"Her trendsetting headscarves get a curtseying adverb: they are ‘knotted neatly’."

精明谨慎的；狡黠的；机灵的

"Despite her cherub cheeks, Pamela looks canny, less jolly than her owner, as if she knew what was in store."

用贴花法装饰的，将一块织物缝或粘到另一块上形成图案的

"The flared skirt was named after the shape most often appliquéd onto it; the felt decorations on the queen’s skirt are of a bendy-legged Romeo with Juliet poking out of her balcony like a pot plant."

敬畏导致了毫无生气的僵化/不作为；敬畏之心滋生麻木

"Awe breeds inertness. No one would expect an exhibition at the King’s Gallery to offer an incendiary commentary..."

幻影，幻象；有名无实的事物，幽灵般的存在

"Untenanted frocks in a glass case are specimens; pictured among furnishings, they become fabric phantoms and look incomplete."

（本文中）懒散的，消极的，不抵抗的，卑躬屈膝的

"No one would expect an exhibition at the King’s Gallery to offer an incendiary commentary, but the usefully fact-packed catalogue is blotted by supine courtiership."

（色眯眯地、好奇地）盯着看，抛媚眼

"The crinolines are the most ogled."

过分乐观的；不切实际的；充满幻想的

"Rickey’s biography, the first to appear in English is a starry-eyed account of Varda’s extremely long career as a photographer, filmmaker and installation artist."

（表情、风格或外表）严肃的；严峻的；简朴的，不带有任何装饰性或轻松的元素

"In her self-portraits from this time, she looks severe and androgynous, dressed in men’s tweed jackets, plaid shirts and black leather loafers."

委婉语；婉言，用温和、模糊或悦耳的词句替代直接、刺耳或令人不快的说法

"The two met as girls in Sète, and later became lovers, though their relationship has been obscured by the usual euphemisms – an ‘almost-sister’, a ‘close friend’."

（阅读或进食）贪婪地；如饥似渴地

"She read voraciously: Baudelaire, Joyce, the Surrealists, Virginia Woolf, all of Colette."

逃避的；推诿的；含糊其辞的

"The memoir comprises printed matter and press clippings, family photographs and a brief autobiographical A to Z. The Varda who emerges is obstinate and evasive."

固执的；倔强的；顽固的

"The memoir comprises printed matter and press clippings, family photographs and a brief autobiographical A to Z. The Varda who emerges is obstinate and evasive."

（为掩盖真相而）轻描淡写；掩饰；搪塞

"She brings together sales figures, archival interviews, scholarship and anecdotes, but anything dark or disturbing is glossed over."