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不可调和的；无法平息的；无情的。形容大庭叶藏叙事中的那种无法打破的、冷静的距离感。
"It’s an implacable distance impossible to capture through the lens of relatability, denying the reader the consolation of being “written” by the author."
幸灾乐祸；从他人的不幸中获得的快乐。
"Yōzō narrates his depression as if it’s someone else’s, foreclosing the opposite catharses of self-pity and schadenfreude."
有偿付能力的；能偿清债务的。此处指“一个经济上能够存续的大众出版行业”。
"I’ve passed enough “As Seen on TikTok” tables at otherwise cozily untrendy bookstores that I can no longer picture a solvent mass publishing industry without this app."
新奇有趣的；古色古香的；离奇古怪的。在本文中带有一种“过时而质朴、甚至有点可爱/奇怪”的意味，用来形容父母当时的看法。
"I did consider my parents lining our living room with this lineage of human achievement to be its own human achievement; they were Balkan farmers’ kids, and because they had the quaint notion to study computers rather than collectivized fertilizer, we got to watch the dust collect on our leatherbound The Descent of Man."
彻底解决（某个问题、谜团或争议），使其不再困扰人
"Zachary Kelso braved the biting cold to finally put to rest a mystery that has haunted neuroscience labs for over half a century."
长期困扰、萦绕（多指思想、记忆或问题像幽灵一样挥之不去）
"a mystery that has haunted neuroscience labs for over half a century."
刺骨的寒冷
"Zachary Kelso braved the biting cold to finally put to rest a mystery that has haunted neuroscience labs for over half a century."
不够标准、不符合要求
"But the mail-order worms weren’t up to snuff."
派遣、派出（某人去执行特定任务）
"So Gershman had dispatched Kelso to the Charles’ icy banks to catch some wild ones."
在商务休闲装中偏向正式、商务的那一面
"'I thought, 'I’m going to look crazy because I’m using a hammer to beat through the ice,'' Kelso recalled. 'So I wore the more business end of business casual.'"
不重要的，不相干的，离题的
"That what Bloom wanted from my poetry might not have been congruent with what I wanted from it was neither here nor there..."
宣布，颁布，传播（思想或信仰）
"...followed by the highly idiosyncratic theory of influence he promulgated in the Seventies and Eighties."
（不恰当地）将……归类，固化为某种类型或角色
"He was sometimes pigeonholed as an ally of the deconstructionists such as Paul de Man and J. Hillis Miller..."
与……一致，符合，协调
"That what Bloom wanted from my poetry might not have been congruent with what I wanted from it was neither here nor there..."
（将某事物）设定在（某一特定水平、程度或目标）
"Bloom’s reading was pitched at such a high level of expectation that it was both flattering and instructive..."
新手，生手，初学者
"But The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom understandably omits Bloom’s missives to tyros like me."
（尤指长篇或正式的）信件，信函
"But The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom understandably omits Bloom’s missives to tyros like me."
附带现象，副现象；（哲学上指）由主要现象产生的次要表现或伴随结果，本身没有因果效力。
"rather, it sits, like a sort of flywheel or epiphenomenon, on history."
大量，很多（通常指非物质的、抽象的东西）。
"It contains oodles of Grand Guignol, jiltings, fortunes, seductions, desertions, divorces, house moves, purchases, bankruptcies, children, wars, inflation."
（文学、电影、书籍等中）冗长乏味的部分或段落。
"That said, stasis, being, durée, existence, longueurs don’t make much of an appearance."
碳酸化，充入二氧化碳；（引申义）活力，生气，如冒泡般的激情与生动。
"the intelligence of its commentary on unequal distribution almost masked by its seeming insouciance and all-round carbonation"
绵延，持续时间（尤指一种主观体验到的、流动的、不可分割的时间流）。
"That said, stasis, being, durée, existence, longueurs don’t make much of an appearance."
停滞，静止，也指一种稳定、平衡但缺乏变化或发展的状态。
"That said, stasis, being, durée, existence, longueurs don’t make much of an appearance."
长河小说，即一部描述多个角色生活或家族历史的多卷本小说，或类似于多卷本小说的单卷本长篇叙事作品。
"I’m guessing that The Effingers is a roman fleuve – one of those plotty, fast-moving books, not overburdened with inwardness, that might have set Virginia Woolf’s teeth on edge."
使人感到极度烦躁、厌恶或不适（通常指因某种感觉、声音或行为）。
"one of those plotty, fast-moving books, not overburdened with inwardness, that might have set Virginia Woolf’s teeth on edge."
大量，很多（通常指非物质的、抽象的东西）。
"It contains oodles of Grand Guignol, jiltings, fortunes, seductions, desertions, divorces, house moves, purchases, bankruptcies, children, wars, inflation."
情节耸人听闻、充满暴力、恐怖和血腥的戏剧或文学作品。
"It contains oodles of Grand Guignol, jiltings, fortunes, seductions, desertions, divorces, house moves, purchases, bankruptcies, children, wars, inflation."
无忧无虑，漠不关心，满不在乎（尤指在通常应严肃或担忧的场合下表现出的轻率态度）。
"It is a marvellous example of Weimar prose, the intelligence of its commentary on unequal distribution almost masked by its seeming insouciance and all-round carbonation."
飞轮，惯性轮；（比喻义）一个储存能量、通过惯性维持系统平稳运转的机制。
"rather, it sits, like a sort of flywheel or epiphenomenon, on history."
温文尔雅的，都市化的（指文化素养与社交风度）
"Bookish and ambitious, he sought out the urbane and intellectual..."
多产的（在艺术创作领域，指作品数量巨大）
"Without ever having read his novels, I thought of him as a prolific – perhaps excessively prolific – author of sentimental bestsellers..."
情感泛滥的，矫揉造作的（尤指文学作品刻意煽情）
"...sentimental bestsellers, most of them sequels or prequels to earlier successes."
无处不在，普遍存在（强调难以躲避的持续显现）
"But I must have regarded the ubiquity of his paperbacks in second-hand bookshops as reason to dismiss him."
暗中破坏，逐渐削弱（尤指价值观/体系）
"I had developed a taste for literature that undermined the myth of the cowboy..."
误解，错误认知（因理解框架偏差导致的系统性误判）
"As it happens, this misapprehension plagued McMurtry for his whole career."
长期困扰，折磨（像瘟疫般持续侵扰）
"...this misapprehension plagued McMurtry for his whole career."
艰苦谋生的，贫瘠的（指在有限资源下的生存挣扎）
"...to the mingled pride and dismay of the hardscrabble neighbours he had been brought up with."
轶事性的，基于个人叙述的（非系统性证据）
"The child of Texan ranchers, McMurtry grew up with both the anecdotal memory of white settlers' 'Old West'..."
哀叹，悲悼（以哀怨的方式表达不满）
"McMurtry bemoans the fact that readers take his characters at face value..."
永恒地，不断地（暗示无休止的循环状态）
"...a kind, sensitive, ambivalent man in perpetual conflict with responsibility and desire..."
此处指温和地责备、告诫，通常出于善意或教导的目的，而非严厉训斥。
"'A psalm consoles the sad, restrains the joyful, tempers the angry, refreshes the poor and chides the rich man to know himself,' wrote Niceta of Remesiana, a fourth-century bishop from what is now Serbia."
一系列极其出色、令人眼花缭乱的物品。‘Dazzling’暗示了它们的美和珍贵让人（精神上）目眩神迷。
"The show, masterminded by Roger S. Wieck, the library's head of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts until his death earlier this year, gathered together a dazzling array of psalters dating from the fourth century BCE to the 16th century."
精心策划、构思并主导（某个项目或活动），通常指幕后智囊。
"The show, masterminded by Roger S. Wieck, the library's head of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts until his death earlier this year, gathered together a dazzling array of psalters dating from the fourth century BCE to the 16th century."
被强烈地激励、驱动着去朗诵。‘fired’在此处意为‘激发’、‘点燃了热情’，常与‘ambition’, ‘imagination’等词搭配。
"How loudly I began to cry out to you in those psalms, how I was inflamed by them with love for you and fired to recite them to the whole world, were I able, as a remedy against human pride!"
此处比喻像被点燃一样，内心充满了强烈的爱（对上帝的爱），感到炽热、燃烧。
"How loudly I began to cry out to you in those psalms, how I was inflamed by them with love for you and fired to recite them to the whole world, were I able, as a remedy against human pride!"
情感充沛、自然流露的虔诚表达，如同突然爆发出来一样，带有强烈的情感冲击力。
"How loudly I cried out to you, my God, as I read the psalms of David, songs full of faith, outbursts of devotion with no room in them for the breath of pride!"
此处形容语言或风格华丽、夸张、引人注目，带有强烈的表现力。
"His far better-known contemporary Augustine of Hippo praised the psalms in more flamboyant terms:"
散布着（指空间上零散分布着多件类似的物品）
"the first gallery, dotted with splotchy landscapes and unlovely nudes in the manner of Monet and Degas, makes clear."
前卫主义的；先锋派风格的（指杜尚的行为符合20世纪初欧洲先锋艺术运动的典型准则——以震惊为手段挑战传统）
"but obviously this one was intended, in avant-gardist fashion, to shock."
麻木；麻醉状态；感觉缺失（此处是杜尚自我描述选择现成品时的“美学冷漠”状态）
"Much later, Duchamp claimed that he had selected his readymades out of ‘visual indifference’, ‘a complete anaesthesia’, but obviously this one was intended, in avant-gardist fashion, to shock."