女神殿

Samaritan

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撒馬利亞人

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–noun 
1. an inhabitant of Samaria. 
2. good Samaritan. 
3. (often lowercase) one who is 
compassionate 
and 
helpful to a person in distress.  

4. any of the dialects of Aramaic spoken by the Samaritans in ancient Israel and until recently still spoken in Nablus.
 
–adjective 
5. pertaining to Samaria or to Samaritans. 


　
Giorgia's withdrawal from and reabsorption into institutionalized care is The Best of Youth's 

[defining] event: 
the last chapter of a dual bildungsroman. 

[Shamed] and [hardened] 
by his fledgling act of samaritan [protest], 

Matteo throws up his hands and enlists in the army; he later lands jobs as a police photographer—his crime-scene 

snaps a grisly (可怕的) parody 
of 
his youthful shutterbug (業餘攝影迷) 

enthusiasms—and as a suspect-stomping cop. Nicola, typically, is at once [unscathed] and [proactive]. He gets bearded and naked with hippies in Norway, marries the student agitator Giulia (

the forbidding Sonia Bergamasco, 
who 
evokes [Monica Vitti] as android

), and becomes a progressive psychiatrist who campaigns on behalf of the mentally ill—essentially [co-opting] Matteo's doomed mercy mission. 


condescend
He would not condescend to [misrepresent] the facts. 
He condescended to [their intellectual level] in order to be [understood].  
descend
下來,下降,為...的後裔
progeny
scion 
fetus pedigree
Tenuous