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一场如同发热梦魇般的激流勇进式狂乱体验。
"The film plunges into freefall, a fever-dream flume ride through scenes derived from the stories, transporting the dissociating architect into madness."
正在发生解离(的)。指一种心理状态,特征是与自我、记忆或现实感脱离。
"The film plunges into freefall, a fever-dream flume ride through scenes derived from the stories, transporting the dissociating architect into madness."
一记受欢迎的警示性警告。
"The fuss made in London and Manchester was a welcome shot across the bows, but elsewhere the H certificate soon became a reason for local authorities to embargo all such films."
禁止,禁令。通常指官方对某种活动、商品输出或信息的发布下达的暂时性或永久性禁令。
"The fuss made in London and Manchester was a welcome shot across the bows, but elsewhere the H certificate soon became a reason for local authorities to embargo all such films."
争斗,激烈的争执,扭打。此处指不同利益方之间持续且激烈的冲突。
"Tussles between directors and censors, councils and cinemas, lasted into the 1960s and beyond."
无数的,大量的(通常指带来麻烦或烦恼的事物)。
"Harsh certification and insistence on drastic cuts caused no end of artistic grief, especially to auteurs such as the doomed wunderkind Michael Reeves..."
(电视)午夜后的垃圾时段,即凌晨的冷门时段。
"Then, in the way of moral panics, the passion subsided. The shock of the new wore off, and the films settled harmlessly into television schedules, albeit in graveyard slots."
注定命运悲惨的神童/天才。
"Harsh certification and insistence on drastic cuts caused no end of artistic grief, especially to auteurs such as the doomed wunderkind Michael Reeves – the director of Witchfinder General (1968) – who employed grisly violence to educate as well as entertain."
光怪陆离、变幻无常的梦幻场景或一系列景象
"Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971), a phantasmagoria of blasphemous sexual excess, provoked a new level of outrage."
邪恶的,不祥的,阴险的。在此处特指人物外表或气质上带有一种令人感到不祥或危险的特质。
"A racing car driver recovering from an accident falls through fractured time to meet a sinister man driving a horse-drawn hearse."
破碎的时间,形容时间线不再线性连续,而是断裂、碎片化。
"A racing car driver recovering from an accident falls through fractured time to meet a sinister man driving a horse-drawn hearse."
(叙述框架)积累并生发出自身的超自然力量或驱动力。
"The film fits five ghost stories from four directors into a framework that gathers its own supernatural momentum."
选集格式,指一部作品由多个独立的故事或片段组成,并由一个统一的框架或主题串联起来。
"It was produced by Ealing Studios and pioneered the anthology format, much imitated in subsequent decades."
眼球像转轴一样左右转动的、目光游移的凝视。
"But it was the ventriloquist and his weird puppet that really got to me – Redgrave’s descent into mania alongside Hugo’s soulless patter and swivel-eyed gaze."
悄悄爬进/穿越镜子,喻指进入一个颠倒的、超现实的世界。
"It felt like creeping through the looking glass, from daylight into darkness."
玄学/神秘学意义上的门槛或界线,即分隔现实与超自然世界的分界线。
"The occult threshold also blurred the line between past and present."
他们心灵/意识的幽深处(指最隐秘、难以触及的角落)。
"...making audiences contemplate both the grand mysteries of heaven and earth and the small secrets in the recesses of their minds."
充满杀人意图或杀人行为的过去历史。
"A woman gives an antique ormolu mirror to her fiancé, opening a window onto a previous owner’s homicidal past and wickedly infecting the present."
以一种恶毒的方式(如同瘟疫般)污染或影响(当下)。
"A woman gives an antique ormolu mirror to her fiancé, opening a window onto a previous owner’s homicidal past and wickedly infecting the present."
将其剔除,像切鱼片一样精确地移除。
"...even in 1945 US distributors filleted it out, doing little harm to the overarching story."
包罗万象的主线故事,或者说是故事的框架。
"...even in 1945 US distributors filleted it out, doing little harm to the overarching story."
(在会议上、集会上) 起立发言,获得发言权。
"But just when Dead of Night seems low on ideas, Dr Van Straaten, a psychiatrist with a Central European accent (played by the German Jewish refugee Frederick Valk), takes the floor."
目光固定、心神专注且处于狂乱状态。形容一种因执念而表现为外在狂躁的精神状态。
"In the role of Frere, Michael Redgrave, who in 1942 had been medically discharged from the Royal Navy, looks fixated and frantic, genuinely unwell in body and mind."
一个暴力的分裂人格也(与主导人格)永久地融合在一起。
"The final scene would play out similarly in Hitchcock’s Psycho, where a violent split personality also fuses permanently."
骤然跌入自由落体状态,比喻叙事或精神状态完全失控,陷入混乱和失重般的崩溃。
"The film plunges into freefall, a fever-dream flume ride through scenes derived from the stories, transporting the dissociating architect into madness."
杰出的;著名的;显赫的
"Newsoms, he knew, were supposed to be illustrious."
含糊其辞的;故作矜持的;不愿明确透露的
"Political memoirists are usually coy about their use of ghostwriters, but Newsom readily acknowledges that he couldn't have written this book himself."
(对君主或领主的)忠诚;效忠
"In Young Man in a Hurry, Newsom insists that ... he was never one of them, and owes them no fealty."
极其;非常(用于强调形容词的肯定含义)
"$2.9 million in cash, negotiated down from an initial demand of $17 million (eminently affordable, but why overpay?)"
黑手党家族中的军师或高级顾问,此处比喻为盖蒂家族的核心法律与策略顾问
"In 1973, when John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by the Calabrian mafia, it fell to Bill Newsom to fly to Italy to get him back. ... it was Bill Newsom, family consigliere, who flew off in one direction or another to the rescue."
(用言语)刺激;激怒;不断骚扰(像用针扎一样持续挑衅)
"He needles Trump on Truth Social and X, and his website sells kneepads 'for all your grovelling to Trump needs – now in Republican red.'"
大胆的;鲁莽的;敢作敢为的(尤指带有挑衅或反常意味的大胆)
"'I'd rather be accused of [having] those audacious stretch goals than be accused of timidity.'"
(尤指本该成功却)彻底失败的事件;垮台;崩溃
"An early ending also allows him to leave out the French Laundry debacle in 2020, when despite Covid stay-at-home orders Newsom was photographed attending a lobbyist's birthday dinner at the inordinately expensive restaurant in the Napa Valley."
最终导致;以……告终(尤其指一系列事件的高潮或结果的顶点)
"He also recognises – how could he not? – that the backlash was severe, culminating in Proposition 8, a California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage until 2013."
模棱两可的;含糊的;态度暧昧的(故意不表达明确立场)
"Yet the memoir is more equivocal. He seems to have taken seriously criticism from the gay congressman Barney Frank..."
献祭;奉献;使神圣化;庄严宣告(具有宗教或仪式感的确认)
"Couples from all over the country had converged on San Francisco to 'consecrate on paper what they had consecrated with their lives'; 'a beautiful little girl' had tugged at his jacket to thank him for giving her two mommies."
(经济上)拮据的;困窘的
"Newsom insists that his home life was straitened – he ate too much macaroni cheese on his own, and it made him anxious when his mother complained about money."
(生活必需品的)匮乏;困苦;贫困
"Newsom insists that his home life was straitened ... At the same time, he knows the story is complicated: he also went on safari in Tanzania with the Gettys."
权力掮客;拥有巨大政治影响力并能操控权力分配的人
"His grandfather William Newsom made a fortune in tract housing after the war ... becoming a Democratic Party powerbroker and a patron of Pat Brown."
卑躬屈膝的;摇尾乞怜的(为求宠或宽恕而表现出过度的顺从)
"He needles Trump on Truth Social and X, and his website sells kneepads 'for all your grovelling to Trump needs – now in Republican red.'"
(社会或机构的)严重问题,痼疾
"There are, inevitably, conflicting diagnoses of the malady, but the indicators of deteriorating health are too ubiquitous to be ignored."
朝不保夕者,不稳定的无产阶级(指那些工作不稳定、收入低、缺乏职业保障和福利的群体)
"…when the bulk of undergraduate teaching in some departments is done by people on poorly paid short-term contracts with no possibility of career progression, a precariat shamefully exploited by cash-strapped universities…"
危难,危险(尤指失去某物或遭受失败的风险)
"When a substantial number of universities are in serious financial jeopardy, with some hinting at possible bankruptcy in the short term…"
引出,引起(反应、回答等)
"…then it becomes difficult to deny that something has gone badly wrong with higher education in Britain. (Or, at least, in England and, with significant variations, in Wales and Northern Ireland…)"
无处不在的,普遍存在的
"There are, inevitably, conflicting diagnoses of the malady, but the indicators of deteriorating health are too ubiquitous to be ignored."
(神学术语)遏制者,指一种阻止敌基督或末世灾难降临的力量或实体。
"As the political scientist Marlène Laruelle shows in her new book, Putin and his supporters increasingly believe that Russia’s purpose is to serve as a katechon, a nuclear bulwark against the menace of Euro-Atlantic liberalism and its push for hegemony and homogenisation."
深奥的、隐秘的、难懂的;仅供少数有内行知识的人理解和欣赏的。
"This esoteric, ideologically syncretic book recast the Cold War as the latest incarnation of an age-old civilisational struggle between ‘thalassocracies’ – empires of the sea – and land-based ‘tellurocracies’."
文明抹除/毁灭,指整个文明的存在、身份、成就和文化被彻底摧毁或抹去。
"Meanwhile, Trump likes to warn Europe that insufficient militarism and a lack of border vigilance have left it facing ‘civilisational erasure’."
过分自信的、傲慢的、目中无人的。
"Russia’s campaign against Ukraine since 2014, then, could be framed not only as a pre-emptive strike against Nato encroachment but more expansively as a defensive move against an overweening civilisation unwilling to recognise its proper boundaries."
(贬义)表象、模拟物、虚像;指看似真实但实则缺乏本质或原创性的复制品。
"The result is a managed simulacrum of a diverse ideological space, though one from which liberals have been excised, at least at the level of public political debate."