「中英文」元宇宙之雪崩（1）(28)

原句：Other people—store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America-other people just rely on plain old competition.
□ harass [hrs; hrs] v. 骚扰；不断攻击（敌人）；
□ poise [pz] n. 镇静，沉着自信；仪态，优雅的姿势；平衡；（物理）泊；vt. 使平衡；保持……姿势；（人，组织）准备（做某事）；vi. 平衡，悬浮；准备好；
原句：The Deliverator took out his gun, centered its laser doo-hickey on that poised Louisville Slugger, fired it.
□ pollutant [plutnt] n. 污染物；
□ profuse [prfjus] adj. 丰富的；很多的；慷慨的；浪费的；
□ protocol [prtkl] n. 礼仪，礼节；国际议定书，条约草案；（协议或条约的）附件；
原句：Oh, the weasels had an excuse: said that a thirty-six-inch samurai sword was not on their Weapons Protocol.
□ relentless [rlentls] adj. 坚韧的，不屈不挠的；残酷无情的，不留情面的；不停的，不间断的；
原句：He slams the window shut, strangling the relentless keening of the smoke alarm.
□ righteous [rats] adj. 正义的；正直的；公正的；
原句：Thought it was a pretty righteous bust.
□ sporadic [sprdk] adj. 零星的；分散的；不定时发生的；
原句：Once there had been bitter disputes, the intersection closed by sporadic sniper fire.