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扼杀；抑制；(像掐住喉咙那样) 限制
"This would come from throttling excessive inter-generational transfers through a progressive death tax."
重新对齐；重构对应关系
"Infrastructure is a simple way to illustrate the realignment between state, markets and democratic institutions over the past half-century."
障碍；妨碍物
"The cost of election campaigns is another major impediment, especially to candidates from outside the establishment."
处罚；对…不利
"Strict liability should be extended to cover the fraud tolerated in many industries, and penalise criminal incompetence as evidenced by bankruptcy, workplace fatalities and the sale of faulty products."
极其邪恶、令人发指的
"A mother killing her children is heinous."
无效审判（因陪审团无法达成一致裁决而宣告审判无效）
"On Friday, the Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, ending—at least for now—one of the most miserable and upsetting cycles of discourse and speculation in recent memory."
（陪审团中）拒不妥协的陪审员，坚持己见导致僵局的人
"In the end, 11 jurors voted for acquittal, but a single holdout juror resulted in a mistrial."
一致同意的、无异议的
"On Friday, the Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, ending—at least for now—one of the most miserable and upsetting cycles of discourse and speculation in recent memory."
匮乏、短缺（强调应有的东西严重不足）
"她形容产后抑郁部分由“缺乏支持、睡眠不足和社群缺失”引起。"
各式各样的、混杂的（此处带贬义，指乌合之众般的拼凑）
"But as the trial went viral, it became the object of a sprawl of online arguments, inspiring assorted conspiracy theories and half-baked debates about gender and mental health."
杀子行为（指父母杀害自己子女）
"A mother killing her children is an act that inspires a primal disgust; societies have been fascinated and repelled by maternal filicide stretching back at least as far as the myth of Medea."
不成熟的、考虑不周的（比喻观点或计划缺乏充分思考）
"But as the trial went viral, it became the object of a sprawl of online arguments, inspiring assorted conspiracy theories and half-baked debates about gender and mental health."
罪责、应受惩罚性
"what Clancy did was truly evil—whatever her legal culpability, she was clearly in the grip of something whose horror is beyond the bounds of language."
蔓延、无序扩展（此处指互联网争论的大规模扩散）
"But as the trial went viral, it became the object of a sprawl of online arguments, inspiring assorted conspiracy theories and half-baked debates about gender and mental health."
论点、主张（尤指争论中的核心观点）
"As a central question, though, the contention at the heart of the case seemed not so much legal as philosophical."
妄想、幻觉（精神病学中指脱离现实的错误信念）
"How far back into the darkness of your mind do you have to go for the world to disappear and be replaced by delusions?"
原始的、根本的（指本能层面的、近乎动物性的）
"A mother killing her children is an act that inspires a primal disgust; societies have been fascinated and repelled by maternal filicide stretching back at least as far as the myth of Medea."
无罪判决，宣告无罪
"In the end, 11 jurors voted for acquittal, but a single holdout juror resulted in a mistrial."
枯燥无味的、贫瘠的（形容辩论空洞无物）
"And those arid, and unhinged, debates miss something essential here."
精神失常的、失控的（形容极端非理性的言行）
"And those arid, and unhinged, debates miss something essential here."
意识形态的，思想体系上的
"Decades before Mendez v. Westminster and the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, the case of Gong Lum, et al. v. Rice shows the ideological contradictions of school segregation."
被排斥，被驱逐出社交圈，被孤立
"Interracial families were ostracized, and mixed-race children were excluded from the Baptist mission schools."
(指法院或裁决)被推翻，被撤销
"But the Mississippi Circuit Court’s decision in the 1924 case was soon overturned."
(此处隐喻)堪比,与...相对应,作为...的平行存在
"Despite the discrimination they faced, Mississippi Chinese “successfully established alternative schools that paralleled the exclusionary white educational institutions.”"
(学校或教育机构)经官方认证(合格的)，被认可达到标准的
"Still, mission schools allowed Mississippi Chinese to gain social acceptance in the racially segregated South, as they could “demonstrat[e] to whites that they possessed a cultural heritage and ‘innate’ capabilities that differed from African Americans.”"
(尤指宗教)传教，改变他人信仰
"Baptist congregations, eager to proselytize to the Chinese community, were already offering nighttime classes to teach adults English and encourage “Americanized” domestic habits."
(比喻义)媒介，工具，载体
"“The Chinese gradually realized the missions could be crucial institutional vehicles in facilitating their drive toward full participation in white society, for they provided a forum to demonstrate to whites that they were not heathen,” Lim de Sánchez notes."
将(两种不同的东西)合并，混淆为一谈
"While they lived in predominantly African American areas, Mississippi Chinese “resisted legal and customary efforts to conflate their status with that of blacks” under Jim Crow laws—a sign of the unclear racial status of Southerners who were neither white nor African American."
(在更大社区或文化中的)飞地，独立群体聚居区
"Chinese immigrants came to the Delta as agricultural workers in the 1870s—soon forming family-centered rural enclaves that contrasted with the bachelor society of urban Chinatowns."
(比喻义)公开讨论的机会，交流平台
"“The Chinese gradually realized the missions could be crucial institutional vehicles in facilitating their drive toward full participation in white society, for they provided a forum to demonstrate to whites that they were not heathen,” Lim de Sánchez notes."
(协议或法律中的)明确规定，条款
"Yet the Supreme Court ultimately pointed to the state Constitution’s stipulation that “separate schools shall be maintained for children of the white and colored races.”"
(法律术语)上诉人，请愿人
"When petitioner Gong Lum fought for his daughter to be admitted to a white school, his legal argument was that the Chinese should not be counted as “colored.”"
(过时或冒犯性用语)异教徒，不信仰基督教或本教派的人
"“The Chinese gradually realized the missions could be crucial institutional vehicles in facilitating their drive toward full participation in white society, for they provided a forum to demonstrate to whites that they were not heathen,” Lim de Sánchez notes."
燃烧；剧烈氧化（现在分词，此处指树木真的在剧烈燃烧）
"A huge cracking boomed out over the landscape; it was the sound of trees combusting."
剧烈翻腾搅动（此处为形容词：胃里翻江倒海般的恐惧感）
"I knew how frightened I must be by the churning in my guts, but I felt very calm."
懊悔；追悔（为自己过去的错误而感到深深的自责——此处指对一生罄尽的生活方式感到悔悟）
"I repented my own lifelong contribution to the catastrophe on the mountain and realised how devoutly I love water."
忍耐；克制（不发作）—— 动词，第三人称单数形式
"Our son, the youngest, forbears."
虔诚地；由衷地、极其真诚地
"I repented my own lifelong contribution to the catastrophe on the mountain and realised how devoutly I love water."
灌木丛地带；低矮植被覆盖的荒野（名词，不可数）
"I saw a shift of light behind the mountain, as though an area of scrub or woodland had flared and collapsed..."
疯疯癫癫的、十分荒唐的（英式俚语，略含幽默）
"At eleven o‘clock we all went inside and watched Rivals, and this is the only evidence that we were all a bit bonkers..."
突发的亮光（名词——突然闪现的火焰/光芒）
"A flare of white light slipped down a different slope, very fast and faster again."
私底下、内心里（在此意为‘暗自发问’）
"Privately, I wondered how everyone was a wildfire expert now."
突然睡着（因精疲力竭）；机器突然故障停摆
"...though I remembered his tendency to conk out on the sofa, though I thought him too optimistic and trusting, I kept my doubts to myself."
边缘；流苏状细长物（此处形容火焰在山顶的一线形状）
"I pulled my clothes on, went outside and saw a fringe of bright flame above us, I am guessing about five hundred metres long."
黄昏、暮光（日落到天黑之间的短暂时段）
"As the brief dusk gave way to night, I took more photographs."
评估、估算（潜力/风险）
"...though perhaps I had already assessed our only route out."
（浓烟或黑暗形成的不祥的、笼罩性的）帷幕
"In a wider shot it looked like nothing at all; a close-up showed a dense and unpleasant pall."
山顶/顶端（名词——作为山体最高处的地貌描述）
"The crown of the mountain was six hundred metres higher than the house and less than a kilometre away."
霓虹色的、奇特的明亮光芒（此处为形容词用法）
"At 7.48 my phone camera struggled with the loss of light and the firelight showed neon against a purple sky."