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## Visible Men: Black Fathers Talk About Losing Sons to Police Brutality (Mosi Secret, GQ)
## 可见的男人：黑人父亲谈论因警察暴力而失去儿子（Mosi Secret，GQ）
At GQ, Mosi Secret offers a moving portrait of Joe Louis Cole, Larry Barbine, Rev.
《GQ》杂志《Mosi Secret》为乔·路易·科尔 (Joe Louis Cole)、拉里·巴宾 (Larry Barbine)、牧师 (Rev.
Joey Crutcher, Selwyn Jones, Jacob Blake III, and Michael Brown Sr., who are the fathers and father figures of Michael Brown, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Prude, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake — all Black men who were killed by police brutality.
乔伊·克拉彻、塞尔温·琼斯、雅各布·布莱克三世和老迈克尔·布朗，他们是迈克尔·布朗、特伦斯·克拉彻、丹尼尔·普鲁德、雷沙德·布鲁克斯、乔治·弗洛伊德和雅各布·布莱克的父亲和父亲人物，这些都是被警察暴行杀害的黑人。
Their lives were transformed by the worst kind of news, a blow that left everything that followed so suddenly and painfully different.
他们的生活被最糟糕的消息改变了，这一打击让接下来的一切突然而痛苦地发生了变化。
Not only have they suffered the abrupt and traumatic loss of their loved ones, but often just hours after being stunned by tragedy, they grieve before news cameras.
他们不仅遭受了突然失去亲人的痛苦，而且往往在悲剧发生几个小时后，他们就在新闻镜头前感到悲伤。
They are transformed from ordinary people into symbols of this country’s injustice, symbols onto which so much meaning other than their own is projected.
他们从普通人变成了这个国家不公正的象征，这些象征上投射了许多不同于他们自己的意义。
How easily could that parent have been me, grieving my child, the thinking goes.
我想，那个父母怎么可能是我，让我的孩子悲伤呢？
And yet these fathers endure such moments in uneasy juxtaposition with the mythical assumption that they don’t even exist.
然而，这些父亲们在忍受这样的时刻时，总是不安地与他们甚至不存在的神话假设并置。
These fathers and father figures, in just being present, fight against a myth of the absent Black father, one that began in 1965, when “Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant secretary of labor, delivered a report to the Johnson White House, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, arguing that the plight of Black American communities was in decline due to a simple factor: the crumbling of the family unit and, in particular, children being raised in fatherless homes.” What Moynihan’s report failed to convey was the way in which social structures meant to assist actually penalized the nuclear Black family.
这些父亲和父亲人物仅仅在场，就与黑人父亲缺席的神话作斗争，这一神话始于1965年，当时“时任劳工部助理部长的丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉向约翰逊白宫提交了一份报告《黑人家庭：国家行动案例》，认为美国黑人社区的困境由于一个简单的因素而恶化：家庭单位的崩溃，特别是在没有父亲的家庭中长大的孩子。”莫伊尼汉的报告未能传达的是，旨在提供帮助的社会结构实际上是在惩罚黑人核心家庭。
Just weeks after the study’s release, riots broke out across the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles and critics latched onto the report to blame the ensuing violence on what Moynihan called “the deterioration of the Negro family.” The number of fatherless families, Black and otherwise, would rapidly grow in the following decades—a trend partly driven by the nation’s primary welfare program, in which for a period some states considered families ineligible for benefits if an adult male was a member of the household.
该研究发布几周后，洛杉矶瓦茨社区爆发了骚乱，批评者抓住该报告，将随后发生的暴力事件归咎于莫伊尼汉所说的“黑人家庭的恶化”。在接下来的几十年里，无父亲家庭的数量，无论是黑人家庭还是其他家庭，都将迅速增长——这一趋势部分是由国家的基本福利计划推动的，在该计划中，一些州在一段时间内认为，如果家庭中有成年男性，家庭就没有资格享受福利。
The legacy of that policy and Moynihan’s report continues, and the notion of troubled, fatherless Black men has resurfaced after each national reckoning with racial injustice, including in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.
这项政策和莫伊尼汉的报告的遗产仍在继续，在每次全国性思考种族不平等之后，包括在乔治·弗洛伊德被杀之后，陷入困境、失去父亲的黑人的概念又重新浮出水面。
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Jemisin’s Dream Worlds (Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker)
杰米辛的梦想世界（拉菲·哈查杜里安，《纽约客》）
“John Scalzi, the former president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, heralded Jemisin as ‘arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation.’” (Edit, mine.) Jemisin’s fiction is imaginative, original, and immersive and I’ll just say it: I’m an unabashed fangirl.
“美国科幻与奇幻作家协会前主席约翰·斯卡尔齐称赞杰米辛‘可以说是她这一代最重要的思辨作家。’”（编辑，我的。）杰米辛的小说富有想象力、原创性和身临其境，我只想说：我是一个毫不掩饰的粉丝。
In this portrait by Raffi Khatchadourian at The New Yorker, we learn about the personal dreamscapes that inspire Jemisin’s fiction and the critical influence that Noah, her artist father, had on her development as a writer.
在《纽约客》拉菲·哈查杜里安 (Raffi Khachadourian) 的这幅肖像画中，我们了解了激发杰米辛小说灵感的个人梦境，以及她的艺术家父亲诺亚 (Noah) 对她作为作家的发展所产生的重要影响。
We get a glimpse into the systemic racism Jemisin has experienced in her career and into some fantastic writing that offers hope amid the chaos of a failed civilization.
我们得以一睹杰米辛在其职业生涯中所经历的系统性种族主义，并看到一些精彩的作品，这些作品在失败文明的混乱中带来了希望。
Accepting her third Hugo, Jemisin stood at the lectern, with the rocket-shaped award beside her, and declared, “This is the year in which I get to smile at all of those naysayers, every single mediocre, insecure wannabe who fixes their mouth to suggest that I do not belong on this stage, that people like me could not possibly have earned such an honor, and that when they win it’s ‘meritocracy,’ but when we win it’s ‘identity politics.’ ” Holding up the award, she added, “I get to smile at those people, and lift a massive, shining rocket-shaped finger in their direction.”
接受她的第三个雨果奖时，杰米辛站在讲台上，旁边放着火箭形状的奖项，她宣称：“今年我可以对所有那些反对者微笑，每一个平庸的、没有安全感的自卑者，他们用嘴暗示我不属于这个舞台，像我这样的人不可能获得这样的荣誉，当他们获胜时，这是‘精英统治’，但当我们获胜时，这是‘身份政治’。”她举起奖杯，补充道，“我对那些人微笑，并向他们的方向举起一根巨大的、闪亮的火箭形状的手指。”
“How Long ’til Black Future Month?” includes one of her earliest published stories, “Cloud Dragon Skies” (2005), in which an ecological disaster has caused most of humanity to abandon Earth for a ring-shaped space colony, built from crushed asteroids, beyond Mars.
“距离黑色未来月还有多久？”其中包括她最早发表的故事之一《云龙天空》（2005），其中一场生态灾难导致大多数人类放弃地球，前往火星以外由破碎的小行星建造的环形太空殖民地。
“Old foolishness lay at the root of it,” notes the narrator, a young woman named Nahautu, one of the few who stay.
叙述者是一位名叫纳豪图的年轻女子，她是少数留下来的人之一，她指出，“这一切的根源都是古老的愚蠢。”
The planet has rebounded, except for the atmosphere.
除了大气层之外，地球已经反弹。
The toxic chemicals it has absorbed combine to form a new kind of life:One morning we awoke and the sky was a pale, blushing rose.
它所吸收的有毒化学物质结合在一起，形成了一种新的生命：一天早晨，我们醒来，天空是一朵苍白、绯红的玫瑰色。
We began to see intention in the slow, ceaseless movements of the clouds.
我们开始在云朵缓慢、不断的运动中看到意图。
Instead of floating, they swam spirals in the sky.
它们不是漂浮，而是在天空中螺旋游动。
They gathered in knots, trailing wisps like feet and tails.
它们聚集成团，拖着像脚和尾巴一样的缕缕。
We felt them watching us.
我们感觉到他们在看着我们。
“How Long ’til Black Future Month?” includes one of her earliest published stories, “Cloud Dragon Skies” (2005), in which an ecological disaster has caused most of humanity to abandon Earth for a ring-shaped space colony, built from crushed asteroids, beyond Mars.
“距离黑色未来月还有多久？”其中包括她最早发表的故事之一《云龙天空》（2005），其中一场生态灾难导致大多数人类放弃地球，前往火星以外由破碎的小行星建造的环形太空殖民地。
“Old foolishness lay at the root of it,” notes the narrator, a young woman named Nahautu, one of the few who stay.
叙述者是一位名叫纳豪图的年轻女子，她是少数留下来的人之一，她指出，“这一切的根源都是古老的愚蠢。”
The planet has rebounded, except for the atmosphere.
除了大气层之外，地球已经反弹。
The toxic chemicals it has absorbed combine to form a new kind of life:
它吸收的有毒化学物质结合在一起形成了一种新的生命：
One morning we awoke and the sky was a pale, blushing rose.
一天早上，我们醒来，天空呈现出一朵苍白、绯红的玫瑰色。
We began to see intention in the slow, ceaseless movements of the clouds.
我们开始在云朵缓慢、不断的运动中看到意图。
Instead of floating, they swam spirals in the sky.
它们不是漂浮，而是在天空中螺旋游动。
They gathered in knots, trailing wisps like feet and tails.
它们聚集成团，拖着像脚和尾巴一样的缕缕。
We felt them watching us.
我们感觉到他们在看着我们。
## Ozark Life (Terra Fondriest, The Bitter Southerner)
## 奥扎克生活（Terra Fondriest、苦涩的南方人）
Terra Fondriest’s ode to Ozark life in text and visuals at The Bitter Southerner is firmly set in the before times, when you could safely hold a wedding without masks, and when you could mix with more than members of your household without fear.
Terra Fondriest 在《苦涩的南方人》中以文字和视觉形式对奥扎克生活的颂歌牢牢地设定在以前的时代，那时你可以不戴口罩安全地举行婚礼，那时你可以毫无恐惧地与家人以外的人交往。
What I loved most about his piece is how it exalts in simple joys — the best kind.
我最喜欢他的作品的是它如何在简单的快乐中升华——最好的那种。
This piece cleanses your mental palate not only with words and images, but with its grace.
这首作品不仅用文字和图像，而且用它的优雅来净化你的心灵。
Motor down just one dirt road, and you’ll begin to collect moments that are unique to this part of the South we call the Ozark Hills.
沿着一条土路行驶，您将开始捕捉南方地区（我们称之为奥扎克山）独有的时刻。
Up and down hills and across creeks, maybe stopping in the middle to listen to the water flow and then heading back up, you’ll pass vistas of seemingly endless peaks dotted with cattle pastures.
爬上山下，跨过小溪，也许在中间停下来听听水流的声音，然后再往上走，你会看到看似一望无际的山峰，上面点缀着牛群牧场。
You’ll see wild turkeys dash across the road in front of you on their way to the acorns and hickory nuts in the forest on the other side.
您会看到野生火鸡冲过您前面的马路，前往另一边森林中的橡子和山核桃。
If your windows are open, you might hear waterfalls cascading down the drainage ways after a hard rain, or the interior might fill with dust and the smell of oak leaves burning during a dry spell.
如果您的窗户打开，您可能会听到大雨后瀑布从排水道倾泻而下的声音，或者内部可能充满灰尘和干旱期间橡树叶燃烧的气味。
You might meet a truck coming at you on the narrow road and see how it pulls off near the edge of the woods to let you pass.And if it so happens you decide to put roots down and call these hills home, you might start to develop relationships with certain parts of the creek or different bends in the road.
你可能会在狭窄的道路上遇到一辆卡车向你驶来，看看它如何在树林边缘附近停下来让你通过。如果发生这种情况，你决定扎根并称这些山为家，你可能会开始与小溪的某些部分或道路上的不同弯道建立关系。
You might start to become familiar with the people nestled in the hills who have been here for generations and those who arrived recently, just like you.
您可能会开始熟悉那些居住在山上的人们，他们已经世代居住在这里，也有像您一样最近才来到这里的人们。
You will slowly become part of the cadence of everyday Ozark life.
您将慢慢成为奥索卡日常生活节奏的一部分。
Motor down just one dirt road, and you’ll begin to collect moments that are unique to this part of the South we call the Ozark Hills.
沿着一条土路行驶，您将开始捕捉南方地区（我们称之为奥扎克山）独有的时刻。
Up and down hills and across creeks, maybe stopping in the middle to listen to the water flow and then heading back up, you’ll pass vistas of seemingly endless peaks dotted with cattle pastures.
爬上山下，跨过小溪，也许在中间停下来听听水流的声音，然后再往上走，你会看到看似一望无际的山峰，上面点缀着牛群牧场。
You’ll see wild turkeys dash across the road in front of you on their way to the acorns and hickory nuts in the forest on the other side.
您会看到野生火鸡冲过您前面的马路，前往另一边森林中的橡子和山核桃。
If your windows are open, you might hear waterfalls cascading down the drainage ways after a hard rain, or the interior might fill with dust and the smell of oak leaves burning during a dry spell.
如果您的窗户打开，您可能会听到大雨后瀑布从排水道倾泻而下的声音，或者内部可能充满灰尘和干旱期间橡树叶燃烧的气味。
You might meet a truck coming at you on the narrow road and see how it pulls off near the edge of the woods to let you pass.
您可能会在狭窄的道路上遇到一辆卡车向您驶来，然后看看它如何在树林边缘附近停下来让您通过。
And if it so happens you decide to put roots down and call these hills home, you might start to develop relationships with certain parts of the creek or different bends in the road.
如果发生这种情况，您决定扎根并称这些山为家，您可能会开始与小溪的某些部分或道路上的不同弯道建立关系。
You might start to become familiar with the people nestled in the hills who have been here for generations and those who arrived recently, just like you.
您可能会开始熟悉那些居住在山上的人们，他们已经世代居住在这里，也有像您一样最近才来到这里的人们。
You will slowly become part of the cadence of everyday Ozark life.
您将慢慢成为奥索卡日常生活节奏的一部分。
While Fondriest is new to the area, she understands that the only way to find her place is to get to know her neighbors and to earn their trust.
虽然 Fondriest 是这个地区的新手，但她明白找到自己住处的唯一方法就是了解邻居并赢得他们的信任。
I am still the same introverted girl who grew up in the suburbs.
我还是那个在郊区长大的内向女孩。
Getting to know new people makes me more nervous photographing for this project.
结识新朋友让我在拍摄这个项目时更加紧张。
It’s a challenge that is daunting on most days, but the camaraderie built by pushing through that with my subjects yields the intimacy I strive for in my storytelling.
在大多数情况下，这是一项令人畏惧的挑战，但通过与我的拍摄对象克服这一挑战而建立的友情，产生了我在讲故事中努力追求的亲密感。
Some of the folks I photograph are friends and neighbors, but others are people I meet through circumstance, whose everyday story I find interesting and a good piece for my Ozark Life story quilt.
我拍摄的一些人是朋友和邻居，但其他人是我通过环境认识的人，我发现他们的日常故事很有趣，并且是我的奥索卡生活故事被子的好作品。
But I approach them.
但我接近他们。
I might talk to them right away about my project, or I might let it simmer a bit and get to know them over days, months, even years before I bring up my project and my request to photograph them.
我可能会立即与他们谈论我的项目，或者我可能会先慢慢地了解他们，然后再提出我的项目和拍摄他们的请求。
Building a relationship is important, because it makes the pictures secondary.
建立关系很重要，因为它使图片变得次要。
## Death and the All-American Boy (Kitty Kelley, The Washingtonian)
## 死亡与全美男孩（凯蒂·凯利，《华盛顿人》）
In 1974, Joe Biden had just lost his first wife Neilia and his daughter in a car crash and as the youngest person in the Senate at age 31, it is the sum of these things that make him “good copy.”
1974年，乔·拜登在一场车祸中刚刚失去了他的第一任妻子尼莉亚和女儿，31岁的他作为参议院中最年轻的人，正是这些事情的总和使他成为“优秀的复制品”。
Joseph Robinette Biden, the 31-year-old Democrat from Delaware, is the youngest man in the Senate, which makes him a celebrity of sorts.
来自特拉华州的 31 岁民主党人约瑟夫·罗比内特·拜登是参议院中最年轻的议员，这使他成为了某种名人。
But there’s something else that makes him good copy: Shortly after his election in November 1972 his wife Neilia and infant daughter were killed in a car accident.
但还有其他一些事情让他成为了很好的榜样：1972 年 11 月当选后不久，他的妻子内莉亚 (Neilia) 和年幼的女儿在一场车祸中丧生。
Suddenly this handsome, young man struck down in his moment of glory was prey to scores of hungry reporters clamoring to write soul-searching stories.
突然间，这个英俊的年轻人在他的辉煌时刻被击倒，成为了数十名渴望撰写反思故事的记者的猎物。
What intrigued me about this piece at The Washingtonian is the pure swagger Biden displays for reporter Kitty Kelly.
《华盛顿人报》的这篇文章让我感兴趣的是拜登在记者基蒂·凯利面前表现出的纯粹的狂妄自大。
Oh 1974, you were a different time, indeed.
哦，1974 年，确实是一个不同的时代。
In his office in the New Senate Office Building surrounded by more than 35 pictures of his late wife, Biden launched into a three-hour reminiscence.
拜登在新参议院办公大楼的办公室里，周围挂着超过 35 张已故妻子的照片，开始了长达三个小时的回忆。
It wasn’t maudlin—he seemed to enjoy remembering aloud.
这并不伤感——他似乎很喜欢大声回忆。
He was the handsome football hero.
他是英俊的足球英雄。
She was the beautiful homecoming queen.
她是美丽的返校节女王。
Their marriage was perfect.
他们的婚姻很完美。
Their children were beautiful.
他们的孩子很漂亮。
And they almost lived happily ever after.
他们几乎从此过上了幸福的生活。
“Neilia was my very best friend, my greatest ally, my sensuous lover.
“Neilia 是我最好的朋友、我最好的盟友、我感性的情人。
The longer we lived together the more we enjoyed everything from sex to sports.
我们在一起生活的时间越长，我们就越享受从性到运动的一切。
Most guys don’t really know what I lost because they never knew what I had.
大多数人并不真正知道我失去了什么，因为他们从来不知道我拥有什么。
Our marriage was sensational.
我们的婚姻轰动一时。
It was exceptional, and now that I look around at my friends and my colleagues, I know more than ever how phenomenal it really was.
这真是太棒了，现在当我环顾我的朋友和同事时，我比以往任何时候都更加了解它到底有多么非凡。
When you lose something like that, you lose a part of yourself that you never get back again.“My wife was the brains behind my campaign.
当你失去这样的东西时，你就失去了自己的一部分，并且永远无法再回来。“我的妻子是我竞选活动背后的大脑。
I would never have made it here without her.
如果没有她，我永远不可能到达这里。
It’s hard to imagine ever going through another campaign without her.
很难想象没有她的情况下还会进行另一场竞选活动。
She was the most intelligent human being I have ever known.
她是我所认识的最聪明的人。
She was absolutely brilliant.
她绝对是才华横溢。
I’m smart but Neilia was ten times smarter.
我很聪明，但妮莉亚比我聪明十倍。
And she had the best political sense of anybody in the world.
她拥有世界上最好的政治意识。
She always knew the right thing to do.“Let me show you my favorite picture of her,” he says, holding up a snapshot of Neilia in a bikini.
她总是知道该做什么是正确的。“让我给你看我最喜欢的她的照片，”他说，举着一张 Neilia 穿着比基尼的照片。
“She had the best body of any woman I ever saw.
“她的身材是我见过的所有女人中最好的。
She looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn’t she?“My beautiful millionaire wife was a conservative Republican before she met me.
她看起来比《花花公子》里的兔子还要漂亮，不是吗？“我美丽的百万富翁妻子在遇见我之前是一位保守的共和党人。
But she changed her registration.
但她更改了注册信息。
At first she didn’t want me to run for the Senate—we had such a beautiful thing going, and we knew all those stories about what politics can do to a marriage.
起初，她不想让我竞选参议员——我们的事情进展得很顺利，而且我们知道所有那些关于政治对婚姻有何影响的故事。
She didn’t want that to happen.
她不希望这种事发生。
At first she stayed at home with the kids while I campaigned but that didn’t work out because I’d come back too tired to talk to her.
起初，当我竞选时，她留在家里照顾孩子，但这并没有成功，因为我回来太累了，无法和她说话。
I might satisfy her in bed but I didn’t have much time for anything else.
我可能会在床上满足她，但我没有太多时间做其他事情。
That’s when she started campaigning with me and that’s when I started winning.
就在那时，她开始和我一起竞选，也是我开始获胜的时候。
You know, the people of Delaware really elected her,” he says, “but they got me.”Some detractors accuse him of shrouding himself in widower’s weeds, of dredging up his late wife in every speech.
你知道，特拉华州人民确实选了她，”他说，“但他们选了我。”一些批评者指责他把自己隐藏在鳏夫的杂草中，在每次演讲中都挖苦他已故的妻子。
But Biden prides himself on being candid and honest—”That’s the only way I could be with the wife I had.” He understands the accusations: “I’m not the kind of guy everyone likes.
但拜登为自己的坦率和诚实感到自豪——“这是我能和我的妻子在一起的唯一方式。”他理解这些指控：“我不是那种人人都喜欢的人。
My personality either grabs you or it doesn’t.
我的个性要么吸引你，要么不吸引你。
My sister says I almost lost the campaign because ofmy personality, and my brother-in-law says you either love me or you hate me.
我姐姐说我因为我的性格差点输掉竞选，我姐夫说你要么爱我，要么恨我。
I’m not an in-between type.
我不是一个介于两者之间的人。
In his office in the New Senate Office Building surrounded by more than 35 pictures of his late wife, Biden launched into a three-hour reminiscence.
拜登在新参议院办公大楼的办公室里，周围挂着超过 35 张已故妻子的照片，开始了长达三个小时的回忆。
It wasn’t maudlin—he seemed to enjoy remembering aloud.
这并不伤感——他似乎很喜欢大声回忆。
He was the handsome football hero.
他是英俊的足球英雄。
She was the beautiful homecoming queen.
她是美丽的返校节女王。
Their marriage was perfect.
他们的婚姻很完美。
Their children were beautiful.
他们的孩子很漂亮。
And they almost lived happily ever after.
他们几乎从此过上了幸福的生活。
“Neilia was my very best friend, my greatest ally, my sensuous lover.
“Neilia 是我最好的朋友、我最好的盟友、我感性的情人。
The longer we lived together the more we enjoyed everything from sex to sports.
我们在一起生活的时间越长，我们就越享受从性到运动的一切。
Most guys don’t really know what I lost because they never knew what I had.
大多数人并不真正知道我失去了什么，因为他们从来不知道我拥有什么。
Our marriage was sensational.
我们的婚姻轰动一时。
It was exceptional, and now that I look around at my friends and my colleagues, I know more than ever how phenomenal it really was.
这真是太棒了，现在当我环顾我的朋友和同事时，我比以往任何时候都更加了解它到底有多么非凡。
When you lose something like that, you lose a part of yourself that you never get back again.
当你失去这样的东西时，你就失去了自己的一部分，并且永远无法再回来。
“My wife was the brains behind my campaign.
“我的妻子是我竞选活动的幕后黑手。
I would never have made it here without her.
如果没有她，我永远不可能到达这里。
It’s hard to imagine ever going through another campaign without her.
很难想象没有她的情况下还会进行另一场竞选活动。
She was the most intelligent human being I have ever known.
她是我所认识的最聪明的人。
She was absolutely brilliant.
她绝对是才华横溢。
I’m smart but Neilia was ten times smarter.
我很聪明，但妮莉亚比我聪明十倍。
And she had the best political sense of anybody in the world.
她拥有世界上最好的政治意识。
She always knew the right thing to do.
她总是知道该做什么是正确的。
“Let me show you my favorite picture of her,” he says, holding up a snapshot of Neilia in a bikini.
“让我给你看我最喜欢的她的照片，”他说，举着一张 Neilia 穿着比基尼的照片。
“She had the best body of any woman I ever saw.
“她的身材是我见过的所有女人中最好的。
She looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn’t she?
她看起来比《花花公子》里的兔子还要漂亮，不是吗？
“My beautiful millionaire wife was a conservative Republican before she met me.
“我美丽的百万富翁妻子在遇到我之前是一位保守的共和党人。
But she changed her registration.
但她更改了注册信息。
At first she didn’t want me to run for the Senate—we had such a beautiful thing going, and we knew all those stories about what politics can do to a marriage.
起初，她不想让我竞选参议员——我们的事情进展得很顺利，而且我们知道所有那些关于政治对婚姻有何影响的故事。
She didn’t want that to happen.
她不希望这种事发生。
At first she stayed at home with the kids while I campaigned but that didn’t work out because I’d come back too tired to talk to her.
起初，当我竞选时，她留在家里照顾孩子，但这并没有成功，因为我回来太累了，无法和她说话。
I might satisfy her in bed but I didn’t have much time for anything else.
我可能会在床上满足她，但我没有太多时间做其他事情。
That’s when she started campaigning with me and that’s when I started winning.
就在那时，她开始和我一起竞选，也是我开始获胜的时候。
You know, the people of Delaware really elected her,” he says, “but they got me.”
你知道，特拉华州人民确实选了她，”他说，“但他们选了我。”
Some detractors accuse him of shrouding himself in widower’s weeds, of dredging up his late wife in every speech.
一些批评者指责他用鳏夫的杂草掩盖自己，在每次演讲中都挖出他已故的妻子。
But Biden prides himself on being candid and honest—”That’s the only way I could be with the wife I had.” He understands the accusations: “I’m not the kind of guy everyone likes.
但拜登为自己的坦率和诚实感到自豪——“这是我能和我的妻子在一起的唯一方式。”他理解这些指控：“我不是那种人人都喜欢的人。
My personality either grabs you or it doesn’t.
我的个性要么吸引你，要么不吸引你。
My sister says I almost lost the campaign because ofmy personality, and my brother-in-law says you either love me or you hate me.
我姐姐说我因为我的性格差点输掉竞选，我姐夫说你要么爱我，要么恨我。
I’m not an in-between type.
我不是一个介于两者之间的人。
## Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway (Rebekah Frumkin, Granta)
## 乐观的感觉：论我的叔公、同性恋斗牛士和海明威的朋友（丽贝卡·弗鲁姆金、格兰塔）
Speaking of intriguing men in very different times, at Granta we have Rebekah Frumkin’s portrait of her uncle Sidney Franklin.
说到不同时代的迷人男人，在格兰塔，我们有丽贝卡·弗鲁姆金 (Rebekah Frumkin) 为她叔叔西德尼·富兰克林 (Sidney Franklin) 绘制的肖像。
Discontent with the prospect of a potentially hum-drum existence as a teacher or an accountant, Franklin, armed only with persistence, self-confidence, and a desire for fame, ditched his Brooklyn-based identity in 1922 to fashion himself into a matador on a dare.
富兰克林对作为一名教师或会计师可能单调的生活前景感到不满，仅凭坚持、自信和对成名的渴望，于 1922 年放弃了布鲁克林的身份，冒险将自己塑造成一名斗牛士。
What’s more, he became very good at it.
更重要的是，他变得非常擅长。
On 26 April 1976, after suffering a stroke that robbed him of the ability to walk and speak, the matador Sidney Franklin died in a nursing home in Manhattan, roughly thirteen miles from his native Brooklyn.
1976 年 4 月 26 日，斗牛士西德尼·富兰克林因中风失去行走和说话的能力，在曼哈顿的一家疗养院去世，距离他的家乡布鲁克林大约 13 英里。
Fifteen years earlier, on 2 July 1961, Ernest Hemingway donned his ‘emperor’s robe’ and shot himself in the head with a double-barreled shotgun.
十五年前，即 1961 年 7 月 2 日，欧内斯特·海明威穿上“皇帝的袍子”，用双管猎枪向自己的头部开枪。
As young men, the two had split bottles of brandy in Spain, had traveled through the countryside together (a remarked-upon odd couple, one clean and effete and the other greasy and unshaven), had watched bombs explode in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.
年轻时，两人在西班牙分过几瓶白兰地，一起穿越乡村（一对奇怪的情侣，一个干净而衰弱，另一个油腻而胡子拉碴），在西班牙内战期间亲眼目睹了马德里的炸弹爆炸。
The New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross had said theirs was a friendship between a great man and a lesser one.
《纽约客》记者莉莲·罗斯曾说过，他们的友谊是伟人和小人物之间的友谊。
I am the grand-niece of the lesser one.
我是小女儿的侄孙女。
After six years of touring successfully in Mexico, Sidney fought his way to the central stage of the bullfighting world: the Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza in Seville.
在墨西哥成功巡演六年后，西德尼一路奋战，登上了斗牛世界的中心舞台：塞维利亚的皇家马埃斯特兰萨斗牛场。
On 9 June 1929, Sidney would acquit himself expertly in the ring, earning praise from Spanish aficionados and major newspapers.
1929 年 6 月 9 日，西德尼在拳击场上展现了自己的精湛技艺，赢得了西班牙球迷和各大报纸的赞誉。
Again, adoring fans would flood from their stadium seats to lift Sidney up on their shoulders.
再一次，崇拜的球迷会从体育场的座位上蜂拥而出，把西德尼扛在肩上。
Again, they would tear his traje apart, but these would be Spanish hands tearing, the hands of people who considered their arenas too good for Mexican toreros.
再一次，他们会撕碎他的traje，但这将是西班牙人的手，那些认为他们的竞技场对墨西哥斗牛士来说太好了的人的手。
Sidney would be carried back to his pension and strangers would crowd him – they would even join him in the shower.
西德尼会被带回他的养老金，陌生人会围住他——他们甚至会和他一起洗澡。
‘I enjoyed and savored what I had done with an intensity almost sexually sensual,’ Sidney wrote, and later: ‘All the sexes seem to throw themselves at you.’ The Brooklyn Eagle, which had been covering Sidney’s story in lavish terms since his debut in Mexico, would publish headlines such as ‘Brooklyn Bullfighter Wins Great Ovation in Brilliant Spanish Debut’ and ‘Ten Thousand in Seville Arena Cheer Him as He Dispatches Bovine Foe with Single Stroke.’
西德尼写道：“我以近乎性感的方式享受和品味我所做的一切，”后来又说道：“所有的性别似乎都向你扑来。”自从西德尼在墨西哥首次亮相以来，《布鲁克林之鹰》就一直以奢华的措辞报道西德尼的故事，它会发表诸如“布鲁克林斗牛士在精彩的西班牙首演中赢得热烈掌声”和“塞维利亚竞技场上万人为他欢呼，因为他消灭了牛敌人”等标题。单笔画。
Sidney was more than a novelty, a weird American who’d decided to try his hand at a foreign sport: he was a bullfighter in his own right, el único matador, and to his extreme satisfaction more than a little Spanish.
西德尼不仅仅是一个新奇的人，一个奇怪的美国人，他决定尝试一下外国运动：他本身就是一名斗牛士，el único 斗牛士，令他极度满意的是，他不仅仅是一点点西班牙语。
He fashioned himself as a sort of cultural ambassador to Spain, singularly capable of introducing bullfighting to his American countrymen.
他把自己塑造成西班牙的文化大使，特别有能力向他的美国同胞介绍斗牛。
‘I shall not return to my hometown, Brooklyn, until I have gained fame throughout Spain,’ he told the Eagle.
他告诉《老鹰报》：“在我在西班牙名声大噪之前，我不会回到我的家乡布鲁克林。”
‘I am sure that as soon as Americans are able to understand the beauty of this art, they will take to it, the same as they have taken to other sports.’ He joined an elite group of Spanish bullfighters whose company he continued to keep for decades.
“我相信，一旦美国人能够理解这项艺术的美丽，他们就会喜欢它，就像他们喜欢其他运动一样。”他加入了一个由西班牙斗牛士组成的精英团体，几十年来一直陪伴着这个团体。
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