「中英文」元宇宙之雪崩（1）(31)

原句：The pizza box is a plastic carapace now, corrugated for stiffness, a little LED readout glowing on the side, telling the Deliverator how many trade imbalance-producing minutes have ticked away since the fateful phone call.
□ inflate [nflet] vt. 使充气；使通货膨胀；vi. 膨胀；充气；
原句：Still, it is easy to see CosaNostra Pizza #3569 because of the billboard, which is wide and tall even by current inflated standards.
□ lengthy [leθi] adj. 漫长的，长时间的；（讲话、文章等）冗长的，过于详尽的；
原句：The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.
□ perplexing [ppleks] adj. 复杂的，令人费解的；令人困惑的；
□ perspiration [pspren] n. 汗水；流汗；努力；
原句：A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.
□ polished [plt] adj. 擦亮的；优美的；圆滑的；v. 擦亮（polish的过去式和过去分词）；
原句：Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator"s car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters.