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（博物馆中展示场景的）立体透视模型，实景模型
"... she says, “Oh, isn’t that nice?” And I said, “It’s nice, but there’s an error in the statement,” and she says, “Oh no, there can’t be. Every little word goes through channels and committees and whatnot,” and I said, “But it tells me that there are no more Yosemite Indians today.” She says, “Well, that’s true. It’s very sad but whatever’s out there is true.” So I say, “Well, I hate to disturb you, but I’m a Yosemite Indian, and we’re here on business for our tribe.”’"
种族灭绝；刻意系统地消灭一个民族、种族、宗教或文化群体
"Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West (1994), my second book, was in part about the representational genocide in Yosemite Valley ..."
历史的白板；比喻一个凭空而起、没有历史负担的基础
"This sentence is only implied in the text, not present. The text states Lee's vision created a *tabula rasa-like* starting point. This is a common technique used to interpret the author's logic. [注：原文中没有这个词组，但李光耀的描述暗示了一个‘空白历史’的起点。]"
迟钝僵化的困境与风波；一种文学比喻，指因极端炎热和思想僵化而导致的停滞和混乱
"Slow-motion climate calamity is already a normalized reality across Europe. Anti-Americanism should not be an excuse for not embracing technology the way Singapore’s genius did to escape the torments of torpidity."
替代物；在这里指代某种抽象问题的具体象征或替罪羊
"AC, in the minds of some, appears to be a proxy for all that is wrong with America."
(评论或言语) 尖刻的，讽刺的，带有攻击性的
"The biting subtext of Musk's post was ridicule of the Continent’s general anti-tech sentiment even when facing heat-stroke temperatures of 100-plus degrees."
如同冰一般地；这里指空调温度非常低，营造出一种冰冷的环境
"Musk was quoting from an interview I did with Lee back in the 1990s in the icily air-cooled salon at Istana, the former British governor’s residence in Singapore."
显著的，重要的，具有标志性意义的
"Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history."
越界，违反，破坏（界限或规则）
"The burning of fossil fuels to meet energy demand during peak industrialization, not to speak of the global diffusion of a mass-consumer lifestyle in recent decades, has manifestly transgressed the natural limits of a stable biosphere."
引起，造成（尤指某种变化或后果）；为 *work* 的过去分词古旧形式
"Mitigation of further damage and adaptation to what we have so far wrought are not alternatives but a complementary continuum."
酷热的，令人汗流浃背的（通常指闷热、潮湿的天气）
"Recently, Elon Musk stirred controversy across a sweltering Europe simply by tweeting on X that Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, was a “genius”..."
明显地，显而易见地（通常用于强调负面事实的无可辩驳性）
"The burning of fossil fuels to meet energy demand during peak industrialization, not to speak of the global diffusion of a mass-consumer lifestyle in recent decades, has manifestly transgressed the natural limits of a stable biosphere."
极度寒冷的；严寒的
"On a frigid, sunny morning in December 2025, Picard stepped up to a podium wearing a sweater embroidered with a squiggly cartoon of a mitochondrion."
由许多不规则的、波动的短线条构成的；弯弯曲曲的，多用于形容涂鸦或抽象、不规则的形状
"On a frigid, sunny morning in December 2025, Picard stepped up to a podium wearing a sweater embroidered with a squiggly cartoon of a mitochondrion."
在比喻语境中，指将平凡或基本的事物转化为非凡或复杂事物的人或事物；借鉴中世纪炼金术士将贱金属变为黄金的意象
"He even ventures that mitochondria could turn out to be a missing piece of the mind-body puzzle — the microscopic alchemists that coax thought out of matter, responsible for nothing less than 'the materialization of consciousness into life.'"
不同学科或知识体系之间证据或结论的相互印证与统一，形成跨越学科边界的一致性解释
"This makes them 'the consilience point for many known processes demonstrated to underlie consciousness,' Picard said."
使原本无形、抽象或非物质的事物（如思想、意识、愿望）获得有形的、物质的形式或表现
"He even ventures that mitochondria could turn out to be a missing piece of the mind-body puzzle — the microscopic alchemists that coax thought out of matter, responsible for nothing less than 'the materialization of consciousness into life.'"
通过耐心、技巧或间接手段巧妙地引导或诱使某物出现或发生
"He even ventures that mitochondria could turn out to be a missing piece of the mind-body puzzle — the microscopic alchemists that coax thought out of matter, responsible for nothing less than 'the materialization of consciousness into life.'"
持有与主流观点、既定教条或普遍接受的信仰背道而驰的意见；异端的，标新立异的
"'I'm a little heretical for wanting to bridge the bioenergetic processes inside mitochondria to the human experience,' he said."
恳求，请求；在此语境中特指‘热情的、近乎恳切的呼吁或主张’
"The enthusiastic plea for full disclosure comes from Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield, a defector from Wardex in search of an old idea of truth, and in charge now of a pro-revelation organisation."
（名词）替代者，替身；在此语境中为比喻用法，意为‘（抽象概念的）替代象征、具象化符号’
"This is partly Spielberg’s idea of fun, but it is part of something else too: his use of the extraterrestrial as a stand-in for almost anything strange."
（复数形式）零星的理解，肤浅的知识；一鳞半爪
"But it’s hard to think about everything the extraterrestrials may represent, even if we love them, without some smatterings of politics."
吝啬的，小气的；在此语境中，引申为‘显得小气、不大度、不合时宜’
"The short answer is that the film makes wise or second thoughts seem stingy."
（对行为是否道德或正确的）疑虑，不安，良心谴责
"Of course, we are likely to wake up with qualms about our courage and begin to think of all the occasions when it’s better to keep quiet about the truth."
支持，认可，赞同（某个观点、声明或行动）
"Surely we can endorse maxims like ‘People have a right to the truth’ or ‘Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know’?"
（比喻）一丝隐约的闪现，短暂而微弱的迹象
"There is, however, a brief flicker of a great film when Scanlon uses a mysterious form of torture to get Jane to tell him where Kellner is."
勇敢地，英雄般地；在此语境中略带讽刺，意为‘大献殷勤地、殷勤好客地’
"It’s hard to recognise too that however gallantly we treat the unknown, we rarely stop converting it as fast as possible into a predictable old friend."
冒险行为；惊险刺激的（通常是任性的或不当的）举动
"Much of the rest of the film follows Kellner’s violent escapades, even as he fails to act on the information he has stolen."
夸夸其谈的；高调浮夸的。形容言语或文字空洞、浮夸、自我膨胀。
"Behind the company’s bombastic self-image, we found there was often a much more prosaic reality..."
认真检查；筛选（信息或情报）。原指用筛子筛分粉末或颗粒物，此处比喻仔细审查大量数据以提取有用信息。
"Palantir talked up its contribution to the CIA’s tracking down of Osama bin Laden – it claimed that its software was used to sift and integrate data from disparate intelligence streams (bank records, travel logs and so on) into a single platform, helping analysts to identify the compound in Abbottabad..."
尖端的；最前沿的。形容处于技术或思想发展最前沿的，非常先进的。
"As he became increasingly preoccupied by the threat of Islamic terrorism, he pitched Palantir as a security product: its cutting-edge software would mine government data and use network analysis to identify terrorists."
慷慨的赠予；施舍。尤指政府、富人给予的大笔金钱或物质援助。
"As the largesse of the war on terror gave way to Barack Obama’s ‘light footprint’, Palantir’s early promise seemed to be evaporating."
（媒体的）大肆炒作；天花乱坠的宣传。指通过夸张、不实的宣传引起公众兴奋和关注。
"But Palantir’s technology rarely justified the hype."
逐渐消失；消散。原指液体蒸发（化为气体消失），此处比喻希望、承诺或价值逐渐消失殆尽。
"...Palantir’s early promise seemed to be evaporating. It was losing tens of millions of dollars. Corporate clients began falling away."
根深蒂固的；牢固确立的。源自军事术语，指挖战壕（trench）以防守，后引申为某种观念、体系或权力地位变得极其稳固，难以改变或移除。
"Palantir has become entrenched in some of the most important areas of the US federal state: defence, immigration enforcement, data integration."
被引诱或被激将而说出或透露信息。此处指该男子拒绝被追问，不愿透露雇主信息。
"When we tried to take some photographs outside recently, a man with a lanyard told us to stop. He wouldn’t be drawn on his employer: ‘It’s just a tech company.’"
将液体（尤指水或油漆）倾倒在某人或某物上，一般是大量地、粗鲁地。
"Last October activists from a group called Shut the System doused the façade of the building in red paint – a reference to Palantir’s partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defence for ‘war-related missions’."
宣告……的到来；预示。此处指曼尼费斯托（Karp）在社交媒体上高调宣布、吹捧AI美国军事霸权的到来。
"In April, a 22-point manifesto by Karp heralding the dawn of AI-enabled US military supremacy was posted on Palantir’s X account."
平凡的；乏味的；缺乏诗意的。此处指与Palantir夸夸其谈的自我形象相反，其现实（软件问题、管理压力等）非常普通甚至令人失望。
"Behind the company’s bombastic self-image, we found there was often a much more prosaic reality: problems with software, pressure from management, staff resistance, but also an unrivalled level of political access."
被隔离的；各自为政的。源自谷仓（silo），指信息、数据或部门间像谷仓里的谷子一样被分别储存，缺乏共享和交流。
"The company was founded on a simple premise: governments and public agencies hold a lot of information, but it is siloed and poorly organised."
艰难地、坚持不懈地做完（尤指大量或枯燥的工作或阅读）
"For a few years in Trieste, Joyce embraced revolutionary syndicalism and ploughed his way through a range of anarchist philosophers."
喧闹的、骚动的、难以管束的
"Frank Callanan, a distinguished barrister and historian who died in 2021 leaving this magnificently erudite book unfinished, devotes its many pages to demonstrating that the young Joyce, like his rumbustious father, was a loyal disciple of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster, and that he clung to this allegiance all his life."
保持超然态度，置身事外，疏远
"He made no public comment on the Easter Rising in 1916, and for the most part held himself aloof from Ireland’s struggle for political independence."
不顺从者，尤指拒绝遵从权威或主流观点的人
"If it’s easy to mistake this haughty young recusant for a critic of nationalism, it’s largely because, with the Parnellites plunged into division and disarray over the fate of their leader, Joyce was now politically homeless."
宗派的，派性的，盲目的（尤指宗教或政治派系间的冲突）
"Literary criticism becomes politics by other means, and some supposedly disinterested Irish liberals turn out to be sectarians in sheep’s clothing."
出自内心的，发自肺腑的，本能的（尤指负面情绪）
"The reviling of Parnell by the Catholic Church, which feared nationalism as a rival to its own sovereignty over the people, was an important source of his visceral anti-clericalism."
举止，神态，行为方式
"If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the politician’s reserved and enigmatic demeanour."
合伙、勾结（通常指从事不正当或秘密的活动）
"That Church and imperium were in cahoots was the source of Joyce’s political fury from start to finish."
前兆，预告者，先驱
"Stephen Dedalus’s Luciferian motto ‘Non serviam’ is the badge of one frozen in the posture of rebellion, not the harbinger of a new world."
低温的（尤指极低温，如低于零下150°C）
"...quantum bits that have to be kept in delicate entangled quantum states and often need cryogenic cooling."