Vocabulary

（罕用）傲慢无礼、厚颜无耻（原文如此拼写，标准拼写为 effrontery）

"the old one, not the halt for the satellite city of science parks, biotech companies and slick architectural affrontery lifted from Ballard’s Super-Cannes."

（宗教）诅咒、逐出教门；引申为'被强烈憎恶之物、人人喊打的禁忌'

"Along with abstention from public performance and the Cambridge anathema on photographic representation."

二元对立（结构）；非此即彼的二分法

"Stevenson's measured praise of Prynne alerted media jackals who are always spoiling for a fight, for simple binaries: Prynne v. Larkin."

（从墓中）掘出；引申为'（从被遗忘处）发掘出来'

"He used the tedious bus ride to St Dunstan’s, his school in Catford, to disinter the works of John Milton."

万民平等的社会；指柯勒律治与骚塞1790年代构想的一种乌托邦平等共同体

"Contributing to small magazines such as the English Intelligencer gave him a certain visibility. Crozier’s Ferry Press published his first two books. Prynne’s delirious support was crucial for Green Orange Purple Red. In a response for Grosseteste Review he said: ‘The singing voice of such persuasive and dilated movement has not for a long time been heard in the land … The man walks in his sleep, yet he is there with almost abandoned precision: the sacred pornography of the hapless face is delivered up in that most delicate oriental drunkenness last found in the notebooks of Coleridge.’ Torrance’s work diaries swim in the rush of becoming a published poet and provoking praise beyond all fantasy: he knows that this bucolic Bristol interlude is temporary. He bided his time on the downs, before succumbing to temptation across the water in Wales."

不愿与……打交道；拒不接受

"Not bad for the Prynne side, but missing the mark for Larkin, who might stick in the teeth, but wouldn't have any truck with confectionery from abroad."

（书封上的）推介语、简介；出版方的宣传文字

"'The pattern of bond and contract and interest,' says the blurb on the flap of Kitchen Poems, published by Cape Goliard in 1968."

被详细剖析、逐项拆解（此处指藏书被细致地分类估值）

"Collections purchased from the heirs of John James, Chris Torrance, Andrew Crozier, Tom Raworth, for example, were meticulously anatomised and assigned a monetary value."

（戏称）黄油砖；此处喻指 Prynne 后期那种厚重、奶油色封面、砖头般的大部头诗集

"Until those slices come together in the great yellow butter-bricks of the substantial collections that followed the Poems published by Agneau 2 in 1982."

理光/理想（Riso）数字孔版印刷机；亦指其油印风格的印刷物

"Transmissions of another kind, using sophisticated risograph technology to facilitate limited editions, hand-crafted books of poetry."

恶毒的霰弹式攻击；比喻密集而恶意的批评

"This harmless checklist, aimed at the examination market, provoked a venomous grapeshot broadside from John Carey, the Oxford University tribune for the common reader."

（古罗马）护民官；引申为'为民众代言、捍卫大众利益的人/喉舌'

"This harmless checklist, aimed at the examination market, provoked a venomous grapeshot broadside from John Carey, the Oxford University tribune for the common reader."

（为作者）笔录、抄写、代笔的人；助手

"Single Tangle Mine, his final chapbook from Face Press, was delivered by his faithful amanuensis and post-2014 publisher, Ian Heames, just in time."

末世论的；关于世界终极命运/最后审判的

"Half-moon spectacles sliding down his nose in rhythm with the raised eyebrows: eschatological horror."

（苏联时期）地下出版物；自行出版并秘密传播的文本

"Among the warring tribe of unsponsored fundamentalist poets, rapping out samizdat communiqués from their self-imposed gulags, broadsheet obituaries are a rarity."

栖息地；（引申）某一物种或文化得以存续的环境

"When news of the death of a treasured poet arrives, we suffer a cultural bereavement, recognition of a diminished habitat."

（名词）通函；群发通知（此处指群发的电子邮件通知）

"The medium of transmission is all wrong: a working-hours phone call, an email circular fired off to potentially interested parties."

暂缓执行（尤指死刑）；缓刑；暂时的解脱

"There can be no reprieve now from necessary ceremonies, bureaucratic permissions."

在自助餐厅里（如牲畜般）随意取食；此处形容哈佛时期孤独、无规律、近乎原始的进食方式

"He resisted the pressure to commit to poetry in his student days, until he found himself, solitary and marooned, during a long postgraduate year at Harvard, grazing from an automat and ploughing, in alphabetical order, along shelves of American poetry."

博学者；通才

"With supreme indifference, the future polymath had managed to fail his eleven-plus."

猛烈抨击；愤怒谴责（此处指 Carey 在报纸上大发雷霆）

"'So satisfactorily postmodern that [the poems] achieve a complete "suppression of ordinary meaning"', he fulminated in the Sunday Times."

（英式）口试；口头答辩（源自拉丁语 viva voce '口头地'）

"It involved a polite, stiff-collared viva with Peter Orr."

（贬）不动感情的、迟钝的、四平八稳的

"Prynne’s first book was put out by stolid publishers, Routledge and Kegan Paul, in 1962."

（形）盗版的、私录的；（名）私制录音/私酿酒

"The fourth item in the catalogue is a bootleg cassette of this curiosity that passed through my hands."

退隐；撤离（此处指 Prynne 晚年退出公共生活、潜心创作）

"The famously private scholar chose this moment to consider his legacy, before a final decade of withdrawal into domestic space."

（如法医般）精确细致地；严谨地

"Prynne is forensically precise behind layers of defensive qualification."

文化层面的丧失之痛；某一文化传统因重要人物逝世而遭受的损失感

"When news of the death of a treasured poet arrives, we suffer a cultural bereavement, recognition of a diminished habitat."

（贬）无力的安慰剂；治标不治本、近乎昏昧的缓和手段

"It is not thought that Jeremy, who considered all sporting activities a dim palliative, time stolen from what matters, attended."

豺狼；（比喻）伺机而动、热衷炒作丑闻的媒体或投机者

"Stevenson's measured praise of Prynne alerted media jackals who are always spoiling for a fight, for simple binaries: Prynne v. Larkin."

啧啧不以为然的敲打；此处指 Prynne 在书上写下的'啧'声与敲击式的批注

"There are tutting knuckle-raps: ‘No.’ ‘Crass.’"

被放逐到荒岛；（引申）孤立无援地滞留

"He resisted the pressure to commit to poetry in his student days, until he found himself, solitary and marooned, during a long postgraduate year at Harvard, grazing from an automat and ploughing, in alphabetical order, along shelves of American poetry."

恋爱诈骗——以建立感情关系为手段骗取钱财的骗局

"Whenever people tell her that her AI boyfriend is a delusion, she replies that at least he won’t drug-rape her, share intimate films with his bros, post ‘revenge porn’, or romance-scam her for money like the notorious Yahoo Boys."

雅虎男孩——尼日利亚以网络交友诈骗（尤其杀猪盘）著称的犯罪群体

"Whenever people tell her that her AI boyfriend is a delusion, she replies that at least he won’t drug-rape her, share intimate films with his bros, post ‘revenge porn’, or romance-scam her for money like the notorious Yahoo Boys."

观念艺术——以理念而非技艺或审美对象为核心的艺术形式

"He thinks nothing of exploiting a celebrity ex-girlfriend, standing up Warren Buffett or spending a few million dollars on a banana (which was also a piece of conceptual art by Maurizio Cattelan) and eating it."

拟人化的——赋予非人事物以人的形态或情感

"On 10 April, five government departments – the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Market Regulation – jointly issued their ‘Interim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic Artificial Intelligence Interactive Services’, which came into force on 15 July."

权衡、得失交换——为获得一方而牺牲另一方的取舍

"AI companionship may be safer than the human variety, but perhaps it is only suitable for mature people who are aware of the trade-offs involved."

杀猪盘/爱情诈骗——以恋爱关系为诱饵骗取钱财的诈骗

"Whenever people tell her that her AI boyfriend is a delusion, she replies that at least he won’t drug-rape her, share intimate films with his bros, post ‘revenge porn’, or romance-scam her for money like the notorious Yahoo Boys."

合规的、符合规定的

"AI giants such as Doubao by ByteDance, Qwen by Alibaba and Yuanbao by Tencent have all stopped providing AI companionship service to users until their products can be made fully compliant with the new regulations."

聘礼、彩礼（婚约成立时男方给付女方家庭的财物）

"He spent lavishly to get the woman he wanted, like Gatsby, even wiring thirty million RMB to her parents as a betrothal gift."

光伏的——将光能直接转化为电能的

"The photovoltaic sector is also popular in the capital markets."

腐蚀性的；（喻）侵蚀性的、破坏性的

"They are usually made of steel or plastic, but bamboo-based composite materials – lightweight, durable and low cost – may be well suited to the highly corrosive salt-fog marine environment."

开先例——确立可供日后援引的判例或惯例

"Suing LF will not salvage her reputation, but the way in which the case is resolved will set a precedent."

……是明智的、宜于——（固定结构）'it would be as well to do sth'

"From now on, though, it would be as well to hide the nastier side of human nature: don’t curse at your chatbot and never kick your robot."

挪用、擅自占用（他人成果）

"For decades, Chinese intellectuals have appropriated the work of foreign academics and journalists."

激怒、使愤怒（动词）

"Zhong denied plagiarism (admitting only that she was occasionally inspired by others) and reiterated that ‘we live in an age that demands an apology for greatness,’ which further incensed her critics."

孤立个案——与更大趋势无关的单独事件

"Zhong’s is not an isolated case."