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福祉；安康（包括物质和精神健康）
"...we nonetheless wish to underscore the plight and wellbeing of disadvantaged native workers..."
困境；苦境
"...we nonetheless wish to underscore the plight and wellbeing of disadvantaged native workers..."
荧光团；能发出荧光的化学化合物
"To determine whether defensive glandular secretions were the source, the researchers swabbed salamanders around the parotid glands on the neck and shoulders to prompt a defensive toxin release."
表明……与……有关联；牵涉
"The fluorescence pattern matched where the secretions were emitted, implicating the glands."
完全不隐藏任何秘密；毫无未知之处
"You'd think that a salamander well-known to science, the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), would harbor no secrets."
闪烁的星星；此处比喻荧光斑点像星星一样闪烁
"An international group of scientists from Spain and Germany examined fire salamanders under 365-nanometer UV flashlights and saw bright, fluorescent sparkles, mostly amassed like blue-green twinkling stars over areas of yellow coloration."
夜间的；夜间活动的
"It could help salamanders detect each other in nocturnal or particularly dense environments."
颠覆；彻底改变（观念、体系等）
"New research may upend the cognitive primacy of humans and other large-brained vertebrates."
技术未来主义者（的）；崇尚或描绘由高科技主导的未来愿景的
"Too many seem to think that in a handful of years, Americans will wake up to a technofuturist version of the 1950s, when Uncle Sam’s rolled sleeves, brawny forearms, and dexterous hands peerlessly delivered the world’s goods."
为……配置工具/设备；为……做好准备（尤指工业生产的转向）
"After all, the United States had decades of process knowledge to build on when it tooled up for World War II, and what do we have now?"
对……泼冷水；打击……的热情或可行性
"A necessary and uplifting vision to be sure, but let Potter pour cold water on it."
无可匹敌地；无与伦比地
"Too many seem to think that in a handful of years, Americans will wake up to a technofuturist version of the 1950s, when Uncle Sam’s rolled sleeves, brawny forearms, and dexterous hands peerlessly delivered the world’s goods."
（手）灵巧的；熟练的
"Too many seem to think that in a handful of years, Americans will wake up to a technofuturist version of the 1950s, when Uncle Sam’s rolled sleeves, brawny forearms, and dexterous hands peerlessly delivered the world’s goods."
常春藤联盟（美国东北部八所顶尖私立大学联盟）
"It cannot be found ready-made in the great books and the great teachers, or bought at the price of an Ivy League tuition, or sold by Silicon Valley in…"
施舍物、救济品；此处比喻不费吹灰之力获得的恩赐
"It will not come like alms dropped from the unfeeling hand of the universe."
被强制戴上口套的；此处为比喻义，指被残酷地约束、限制或强制沉默，暗示一种无法发声或无法自由表达的状态
"Out of it all, we emerged as creatures muzzled by a consciousness that demands we give meaning to our survival."
开始采取强力行动（字面义'开始锤击'，比喻果断实施大规模政策）
"For those who really want to 'rebuild our manufacturing and our resilience,' it's time to start hammering."
手术刀（在此语境中比喻需要精确判断的精细化政策工具，如针对性关税）
"The scalpel has its place, but the blunt force object is the tool for this job."
一种长期稳定且不易改变的经济偏好（在此语境中指通过关税创造的对美国生产的持续倾向）
"Create a durable preference for production in the United States, across the whole industrial base, and let entrepreneurs, engineers, and manufacturers discover where the next breakthroughs will come."
钝器（比喻一种简单粗暴但有效的策略工具，区别于精细化工具）
"The scalpel has its place, but the blunt force object is the tool for this job."
指在截止日期前迫使自己完成一项作品，即使它尚未达到理想中的完美状态，带有‘仓促交付’的意味。
"At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece."
在此语境中指一个人固有的性情、气质或心理倾向，即‘天性’、‘性格取向’。
"I respect the magazine writers—obviously, I was one—but for my disposition now, in my lifestyle, I actually enjoy having to produce this thing every week."
过早地，提前地。在此语境中，指炸弹在制造过程中，在预定的引爆时间之前意外起爆。
"In March of 1970, I was shocked to hear that Oughton and two other Weatherpeople had been blown to pieces inside a swanky Manhattan townhouse; an anti-personnel bomb one of them was making exploded prematurely."
充满了危险。'Replete' 是‘充满的’，比 'full of' (充满) 更正式，带有一种‘充盈、充足’的意味。'Perils' 是‘严重危险’。
"The Trumpian present is too replete with perils to chase impossible dreams."
艰难地应对/试图理解‘愿望’与‘现实可能性’之间的鸿沟。'Grapple with' 是‘努力解决’；'gulf' 是‘巨大的鸿沟’。
"Most Americans who called for “revolution” during the era of the 1960s failed to grapple with the gulf between desire and opportunity."
从前的反叛者。'Erstwhile' 是‘以前的，昔日的’。
"It’s an echo of the final scene in One Battle After Another: the daughter of erstwhile rebels is leaving home to join a demonstration."
平淡无奇的、不痛不痒的致敬。'Anodyne' 原指止痛药，引申为‘为了安抚或避免冒犯而显得乏味、无力的’。
"Not that he sees it as I do: the memoir ends with a rather anodyne tribute to young people who “invent and reinvent themselves to match and move the spirit of their times; to imagine and reimagine a better future; and to grow up to be good revolutionaries.”"
摧毁/搞垮美国。'Bust up' 是俚语，意为‘打碎、破坏、使破裂’或‘暴打’。
"Through the lives of his parents, Zayd Ayers Dohrn has composed a tragic saga that should serve as a warning to anyone entranced by the simple vision of busting up America and starting over."
（西语）焦点主义。一种由切·格瓦拉提出的革命理论，认为一个小型、高度机动、纪律严明的武装核心焦点（foco）能够在一个国家发动起义。
"The members of Weatherman never appreciated the impossibility of making a revolution in a prosperous industrial nation with a flawed but functioning democracy. Ayers, Dohrn and company took inspiration from the theory of “focoismo” that Guevara used to explain the rapid victory in 1959 by the rebels who toppled Cuba’s corrupt dictator, Fulgencio Batista."
豪华的曼哈顿联排别墅。'Swanky' 是俚语，意为时尚奢华的。'Townhouse'指连排别墅，在纽约通常是高档房产。
"In March of 1970, I was shocked to hear that Oughton and two other Weatherpeople had been blown to pieces inside a swanky Manhattan townhouse; an anti-personnel bomb one of them was making exploded prematurely."
（在面临反驳或失败的风险时）更加坚定地坚持自己的信念，甚至加倍投入。
"Ayers and Dohrn doubled down on their belief that they and another underground group, an offshoot of the Black Panther Party who styled themselves a “Liberation Army,” were the only remnants of radical virtue left in an otherwise accursed nation."
（法律术语）认罪。指被告在法庭上正式承认被指控的罪行。
"Dohrn pled guilty to a couple of misdemeanors and spent three years on probation."
承担自己行为的法律后果；接受审判或惩罚。这是习语 'face the music' (承担后果，面对困境) 的变体。
"Expelled from what remained of the organization she led, Dohrn gave birth to Zayd and his brother Malik and stayed safe until she and Ayers decided to face the legal music."
（像猎人带猎犬追逐猎物一样）不断骚扰，追逼，纠缠。
"A self-appointed committee hounded Dohrn to confess she had been “part of the structure of women’s leadership which actually served male supremacy” and had “followed the classic path of white so-called revolutionaries who sold out the revolution.”"
无舵的；无指导的，失去方向的。比喻指组织或运动没有清晰的领导或目标。
"After the North Vietnamese army won the war in 1975, “the Underground had become rudderless, a resistance in search of something to resist.”"
（强行）驱逐，逐出。语气比 'kick out' 或 'expel' 更文学化、更正式，带有一种庄重的仪式感。
"As in most cults, our certainty in our righteousness was supposed to be so unshakeable that one could not leave the fold voluntarily; the collective had to cast one out as unfit to wage the battle to liberate the world."
使下台；罢免，尤指从权威职位上赶下来。
"On another occasion, we crashed a mixer at Boston University, which we blasted for promoting male chauvinism, and urged students to unseat the administrators who planned it."
上前与（某人）攀谈，（带有挑衅或威胁意味地）搭讪。
"On the day Ho Chi Minh died, we accosted a group of white working-class teenagers in a Dorchester park, going on about the greatness of Vietnam’s revolutionary hero and looking for a fight."
杀伤人员炸弹。一种专门设计用来杀伤人员而非摧毁建筑或装备的武器。
"They were planning to set the device off during a dance at an Army base in New Jersey, where it might have slaughtered dozens of soldiers and their dates. It took several days before a crane uncovered “the headless body of a young woman, missing both hands and a foot and riddled with roofing nails.”"
残余，剩余部分。指一个更大群体被大部分摧毁或消失后剩下的少数人或物。
"Ayers and Dohrn doubled down on their belief that they and another underground group, an offshoot of the Black Panther Party who styled themselves a “Liberation Army,” were the only remnants of radical virtue left in an otherwise accursed nation."
分支，衍生物。指从某个较大的组织、团体或思想体系中分立出来的派系或产物。
"Ayers and Dohrn doubled down on their belief that they and another underground group, an offshoot of the Black Panther Party who styled themselves a “Liberation Army,” were the only remnants of radical virtue left in an otherwise accursed nation."
身份认同主义的小团体。指基于某一特定身份（如种族、性别、性取向）而形成的、彼此孤立的政治派别。
"When its members retreated into hiding, their constant need for disguise and deception ensured their isolation from the larger left, which was fragmenting into identitarian clusters."
自我扩张的教条主义。指一种盲目坚持自己理论的正统性，并以此抬高自身地位的行为模式。
"Even before going underground, Weatherman had begun to assume the self-aggrandizing dogmatism of a cult."
转变或演变成了平庸的郊区生活。'Morph' 是‘逐渐转变’，'banal' 是‘平庸乏味的’。
"The life of urban guerillas had morphed into the suburban banal."
向联邦调查局（FBI）或其他联邦执法机关自首。'Feds' 是 'Federal agents' 的非正式俚语。
"During a stop along the highway to Chicago where Dohrn planned to surrender to the Feds, someone asked little Zayd why the family was heading to the metropolis by the lake."
极其擅长逃窜和躲藏的生活。'Adept' 是精通；'on the lam' 是俚语，指‘在逃，躲避追捕’。'Getting by' 是‘勉强维持生活’。整体意为‘在逃窜中也能过得下去的能干’。
"Ayers Dohrn affectionately narrates how adept his mom and dad got at surviving on the lam."
后来发现；据悉。（尤指通过揭示或披露）真相被显露出来。
"Fellow Weatherpeople sprang LSD guru Timothy Leary from prison, while Bill and Bernardine, it transpires, played bit parts in Black revolutionary Assata Shakur’s jailbreak and escape to Cuba."
能说明问题、揭示真相的轶事。'Telling' 意思是‘有说明力的、意味深长的’。
"In brief chapters stuffed with telling anecdotes, Ayers Dohrn gives a vivid account of life on the wild side of politics during the 1970s, all of which his parents spent underground."
种族灭绝性冲突。指具有系统性消灭某个民族、种族或宗教群体意图的战争。
"But hot anger over the persistence of racism at home and the genocidal conflict in Southeast Asia convinced them radicals had a moral obligation “to bring the war home.”"
逃避兵役。'Draft' 指征兵制度，'evade' 指通过技巧或违法手段逃避。
"Ayers, the son of a utility executive, ran a progressive children's school in Ann Arbor, while Dohrn, a suburban kid from Wisconsin, used her legal training to advise men how to evade the draft."