Religion
宗教
Amish
阿米希教派
If there are Americans who feel as alienated as the Amish, let them live like the Amish-without harassment,
如果有美国人感觉像阿米希教派那么疏离的话，就让他们像阿米希教派那样生活好了－不受骚扰，
but without subsidize proselytizing for their rejectionist world views.
但是也并不动用政府补贴来诱使别人信仰他们那种弃世的世界观。
apotheosis
最高尊崇，崇高理想的达成
The drama of the U.S. in its progress from the stock-market crash of 1929, through the Great Depression,
美国的进展，从１９２９年的股市崩盘、历经经济大衰退、
its victory in World War 2 and its prosperous domination of the postwar years might be seen as a vast morality play culminating in the apotheosis of the American middle class and its values.
第二次大战的胜利与战后繁荣的霸权，乍看之下好像一出中古时代的道德剧，全剧的高潮在于美国中产阶级与其价值观得到最高的尊崇。
born-again
重生的
He says straight out that he has received Chrit as his Saviour, that he is a born-again believer and that he reads the Bible daily.
他毫不忌讳，直接表示他接受了主耶稣，他是重生的信徒，而且每天读圣经。
The maxim "Once burned, twice shy" apparently doesn't mean much to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
谚语“一朝被蛇咬……”似乎对电视布道家Ｊｉｍｍｙ　Ｓｗａｇｇａｒｔ没什么作用。
credo
信念，信条
Shamir's credo is that Arabs hate Israelis until proved otherwise
沙米尔的一则信条就是：阿拉伯人都恨以色列人，除非另有证据。
And so to the creed of the Games - faster, higher, stronger - she adds words she knows all too well.
所以，在奥运信条－更快、更高、更强－之上，她加上了一些她很熟悉的字：
Harder. Longer. Badder. She has worked so hard, tried for so long, wanted so bad.
更努力、更久、更殷切。她已经锻炼得这么努力，尝试了这么久，渴望得这么殷切。
fall from grace
蒙羞，失去地位，失宠
Graham has, however, ministered to his wayward fellow preachers; after Jim Bakker's fall from grace,
可是Ｇｒａｈａｍ对不循正轨的同行布道家也愿意服务。
he quietly visited the imprisoned elevangelist in Minneota for a prayer session.
他私下到明尼苏达的监狱探望这位电视布道家，和他一起祷告。
His fall from grace came almost as fast, after it was revealed that he had used steroids to achieve his world-beating performance.
可是很快就名誉扫地，因为发现他使用类固醇来达到世界第一的演出。
Holy Grail
圣杯
The ultimate goal of speech-recognition researchers-what they call their Holy Grail-is an automatic dictation machine that can listen to normal conversationalspeech and turn it into perfectly typed text.
语音识别专家的终极目标－他们叫做圣杯的－就是自动听写机器，可以听懂正常会话的口音，并一字不误地打出字来。
The Holy Grail of Columbus studies would be the long-lost original log of his first voyage to what he called
“哥伦布研究”的圣杯是第一次航向他所谓的“印度”时所留下的原始航海日志，这是早已亡失了。
"the Indies," which exists only in a badly garbled abridgment made after his death by the Spanish priest Bartolom de las Casas.
目前我们有的只是西班牙神父卡萨斯在哥伦布死后根据原始日志所做的节录，而且内容十分混乱。
juggernaut
可怕的力量，令人为之疯狂的事物
Many Americans see Japan's economic juggernaut as a continuation of war by other means.
许多美国人认为日本可怕的经济力量是以另一形式延续战争。
Can the Giants juggernaut crush quicksilve Montana?
巨人队无坚不摧的气势能辗碎水银一般的蒙大拿吗？
litany
反复念颂，冗长的列举
These latest glitches are mere footnotes in the seemingly endless litany of NASA's woes:
the Challenger disaster, the nearsighted Hubble Space Telescope, 

the crippled Galileo probe to Jupiter, the badly designed and perpetually redesigned space station Freedom.
Bush has never been a true believer in SDI, although as Vice President he paid lip service to the program as part of the catechism of the Reagan Administration.
布什从来没有真正认同星球大战计划，尽管在副总统任内他口头上夸赞星球大战计划－这是里根政府中基本训练课程的一部分。
purgatory
炼狱
While West Germans fret over the blank check they have signed, East Germans fear that before they enter the earthly paradise,
they may have to pass through a purgatory of inflation and unemployment.
The hospital sequence is an insider's tour of hell, and the Mexican brother is an endless emotional purgatory.
片中医院的连续几场戏是圈内人的地狱导游，而墨西哥妓院那场戏则是无穷尽的情感炼狱。
Scientology
知觉教
Everyone seems to have a plan to assist the citizens of the former Soviet Union,
似乎什么人都有一套援助前苏联人民的计划，
and the Church of Scientology is no exception.
知觉教也不例外。
When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in cash,
警方赶到现场时，他手中还捏着１７１元的现金，
virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology,
这大概是他仅存的没有交给知觉教的钱了。
the self-help "philosophy" group he had discovered just seven monthsearlier.
这个自助的“哲学”团体是他在事前七个月才发现的。