单词本 α
Stake-out 监视
A photographer pricks up his ears at the sounds of a stake-out.
Aestheticize 审美化
These rituals are highly aestheticized within the films and have also become iconic representations of the films.
Allegorical 寓言式的
The rituals in these films can thus be read as allegorical manifestations of power relations within twentieth century PRC.
Hegemony 霸权
“As Foucault argued in ‘Madness and Civilization,’ in a world where ‘reason’ is completely colonized by power, ‘madness’ can be a strategic refusal to submit to power’s hegemony, the only possible gesture of defiance.”
Dichotomy 二分法
The rejection of the notion of authenticity complicates the very structures that have formed the Orientalist gaze, specifically, the dichotomy between ‘East’ and ‘West,’ which inherently privileges the ‘West.’
Motif 主题 Brainchild 脑力产物
The ‘three mothers’ motif was the brainchild of Nicolodi, who read Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 work Suspiria De Profundis (Sighs from the Depths) and discovered in his prose-poetry essay “Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow” the basis for what she felt would be the perfect foundations for a horror movie.
Reclamation 开垦；再利用
Across her writing, Acker embraced the c-bomb in a spirit of creative reclamation like few others before or since.
Thucydides' trap 修昔底德陷阱 The defining question about global order for this generation is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides’s Trap. The Greek historian’s metaphor reminds us of the attendant dangers when a rising power rivals a ruling power—as Athens challenged Sparta in ancient Greece, or as Germany did Britain a century ago.
