Best of 2023: The Audience Awards
Each week at Longreads we review our stats to find out which editor’s pick—chosen from longform stories published across the web—has been most read by our audience.
Longreads 每周都会审查我们的统计数据，以找出哪位编辑的精选（从网络上发布的长篇故事中选出）被我们的读者阅读最多。
The winner receives the coveted “Audience Award,” perhaps not the most lucrative prize for trophies or cash, but one that comes with something better: a spot in our weekly Top Five post and newsletter.
获胜者将获得令人垂涎的“观众奖”，这也许不是最丰厚的奖杯或现金奖励，但它会带来更好的东西：在我们每周的前五名帖子和时事通讯中占有一席之地。
Over the year, this award has awakened an increasingly competitive spirit amongst our editors, and we now wait with bated breath for the week’s announcement, hoping for the smug feeling that comes with a pick we chose winning.
一年来，这个奖项唤醒了我们编辑们日益强烈的竞争精神，现在我们屏息以待本周的宣布，希望我们选择获胜的奖项能够带来沾沾自喜的感觉。
For this post, we considered ruthlessly running the numbers to see which editor won the most awards of the year.
对于这篇文章，我们考虑无情地统计一下哪个编辑赢得了年度奖项最多。
But holiday spirit prevailed, and instead, we are simply giving you the top 10 most-read picks of 2023, which, it turns out, includes choices from all of our editors.
但节日气氛盛行，我们只是为您提供 2023 年阅读次数最多的 10 篇精选内容，事实证明，其中包括我们所有编辑的选择。
Congratulations to the writers and publications for these stories that couldn’t help but grab attention.
祝贺作家和出版物，这些故事不禁引起了人们的关注。
If you want to follow our Audience Awards in 2024, you can sign up for our weekly newsletter here.
如果您想关注 2024 年观众奖，您可以在此处订阅我们的每周通讯。
(And when you see which editor picked the winner each week, know that they will be gloating.)
（当你看到每周哪个编辑选出获胜者时，你知道他们会幸灾乐祸的。）
—Carolyn, Cheri, Krista, Peter, and Seyward
——卡罗琳、谢里、克里斯塔、彼得和西沃德
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How Rural America Steals Girls’ Future
美国农村如何窃取女孩的未来
Monica Potts | The Atlantic | April 6, 2023 | 3,436 words
莫妮卡·波茨 |大西洋 | 2023 年 4 月 6 日 | 3,436 字
This excerpt, from the forthcoming The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America, captures how heartfelt Monica Pott’s exploration into small-town America is.
这段摘录摘自即将出版的《被遗忘的女孩：美国乡村的友谊和失去的承诺的回忆录》，捕捉到了莫妮卡·波特对美国小镇的探索是多么真诚。
By focusing on the women she grew up with, a story that is the same across many places becomes personal—and thus deeply resonates.
通过关注与她一起长大的女性，一个在许多地方都相同的故事变得个人化，从而产生深刻的共鸣。
The first time Vanessa had sex, she asked her boyfriend to stop, and he didn’t.
瓦妮莎第一次做爱时，她要求男友停止，但他没有。
Later, with other boys, Vanessa sometimes felt like she couldn’t say no to their advances, because she’d already lost her virginity.
后来，和其他男孩在一起时，瓦妮莎有时觉得自己无法拒绝他们的求爱，因为她已经失去了童贞。
Only many years later did Vanessa recognize some of these incidents as sexual assaults, she told me when I visited her in 2017.
2017 年我拜访瓦妮莎时，她告诉我，直到很多年后，瓦妮莎才意识到其中一些事件是性侵犯。
She didn’t blame the boys, necessarily; they were just doing what everyone expected them to do, she felt.
她并不必然责怪男孩们；她只是责怪男孩们。她觉得，他们只是在做每个人都期望他们做的事情。
But her reputation suffered.
但她的声誉受到了损害。
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The Gambler Who Beat Roulette
击败轮盘赌的赌徒
Kit Chellel | Bloomberg Businessweek | April 6, 2023 | 6,516 words
基特·谢勒尔 |彭博商业周刊 | 2023 年 4 月 6 日 | 6,516 字
In a tale that races along like a James Bond novel, Kit Chellel introduces us to Niko Tosa, the man who had casinos scrambling to change roulette.
在一个像詹姆斯·邦德小说一样的故事中，基特·谢勒尔向我们介绍了尼科·土佐，他让赌场争先恐后地改变轮盘赌。
Was his winning streak down to luck, skill, or a supercomputer?
他的连胜是靠运气、技术还是超级计算机？
We never find out, but trying to figure it out is still a really fun ride.
我们永远不会找到答案，但尝试找出答案仍然是一个非常有趣的过程。
That night, March 15, 2004, the thin Croatian seemed to be looking for something.
2004年3月15日那天晚上，这位瘦弱的克罗地亚人似乎在寻找什么。
After a few minutes, he settled at a roulette table in the Carmen Room, set apart from the main playing area.
几分钟后，他在卡门厅的一张轮盘赌桌上坐下，该赌桌与主游戏区分开。
He was flanked on either side by his companions: a Serbian businessman with deep bags under his eyes and a bottle-blond Hungarian woman.
他的两侧是他的同伴：一个眼袋很深的塞尔维亚商人和一个金发碧眼的匈牙利女人。
At the end of the table, the wheel spun silently, spotlighted by a golden chandelier.
桌子的尽头，轮子在金色枝形吊灯的照耀下静静地旋转。
The trio bought chips and began to play.
三人买了筹码，开始玩。
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A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality
一位明星记者与现实的决裂
Elaina Plott Calabro | The Atlantic | June 12, 2023 | 6,904 words
伊莱娜·普洛特·卡拉布罗 |大西洋 | 2023 年 6 月 12 日 | 6,904 字
Lara Logan rose to broadcast stardom as a hungry reporter who capitalized on both her fearlessness and her telegeneity.
劳拉·洛根 (Lara Logan) 作为一名饥肠辘辘的记者，凭借自己的无畏精神和远播能力，一举成为广播明星。
That was before she drifted into a nest of conspiracy theories that would get her ousted from numerous TV gigs; now, she travels a far-right lecture circuit, fearmongering for profit.
那是在她陷入阴谋论的巢穴之前，这将使她被赶出众多电视演出。现在，她在极右翼巡回演讲中散布恐慌以获取利润。
But Elaina Plott Calabro’s profile doesn’t relish in the gory spectacle—it’s a dispassionate, empathic look at how someone so talented can lose their way so completely.
但伊莱娜·普洛特·卡拉布罗 (Elaina Plott Calabro) 的个人资料并不喜欢血腥场面，而是冷静、富有同理心地看待一个如此有才华的人如何完全迷失方向。
Logan’s success at events like this—she now features at many—turns on her ability to shrink the distance between her past and present selves.
洛根在此类活动中的成功（她现在在许多活动中都扮演重要角色）取决于她缩小过去和现在的自我之间距离的能力。
She needs the people in this auditorium to believe that the woman on the projector screen is the same one who now anticipates their fears of woke indoctrination.
她需要这个礼堂里的人们相信投影仪屏幕上的女人就是现在预见到他们对醒来灌输的恐惧的同一个人。
She needs them to trust that when she talks about subjects like the “little puppet” Volodymyr Zelensky, or how COVID vaccines are a form of “genocide by government,” or how President Joe Biden’s administration has been “participating in the trafficking of kids,” it is with the precise rigor and dispassion she once displayed on the front lines of America’s wars.
她需要他们相信，当她谈论“小木偶”弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基、新冠疫苗如何成为“政府种族灭绝”的一种形式、或者乔·拜登总统的政府如何“参与贩卖儿童”等话题时，她所表现出的正是她在美国战争前线所表现出的严谨和冷静。
Logan, who is 52, is still, after all, a war correspondent.
52 岁的洛根毕竟仍然是一名战地记者。
That is how she sees it.
她就是这么看的。
The fighting may not be in Afghanistan or Iraq, and she may not be winning Emmys for her coverage anymore, but in her mind this is her most crucial assignment yet, uncovering this “war against humanity.” And she must be getting close to the real story, because the American media have tried to silence her from all sides.
战斗可能不再发生在阿富汗或伊拉克，她可能不再因其报道而赢得艾美奖，但在她看来，这是她迄今为止最重要的任务，揭露这场“反人类战争”。她一定已经接近真实的故事了，因为美国媒体试图从各个方面让她保持沉默。
Logan’s success at events like this—she now features at many—turns on her ability to shrink the distance between her past and present selves.
洛根在此类活动中的成功（她现在在许多活动中都扮演重要角色）取决于她缩小过去和现在的自我之间距离的能力。
She needs the people in this auditorium to believe that the woman on the projector screen is the same one who now anticipates their fears of woke indoctrination.
她需要这个礼堂里的人们相信投影仪屏幕上的女人就是现在预见到他们对醒来灌输的恐惧的同一个人。
She needs them to trust that when she talks about subjects like the “little puppet” Volodymyr Zelensky, or how COVID vaccines are a form of “genocide by government,” or how President Joe Biden’s administration has been “participating in the trafficking of kids,” it is with the precise rigor and dispassion she once displayed on the front lines of America’s wars.
她需要他们相信，当她谈论“小木偶”弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基、新冠疫苗如何成为“政府种族灭绝”的一种形式、或者乔·拜登总统的政府如何“参与贩卖儿童”等话题时，她所表现出的正是她在美国战争前线所表现出的严谨和冷静。
Logan, who is 52, is still, after all, a war correspondent.
52 岁的洛根毕竟仍然是一名战地记者。
That is how she sees it.
她就是这么看的。
The fighting may not be in Afghanistan or Iraq, and she may not be winning Emmys for her coverage anymore, but in her mind this is her most crucial assignment yet, uncovering this “war against humanity.” And she must be getting close to the real story, because the American media have tried to silence her from all sides.
战斗可能不再发生在阿富汗或伊拉克，她可能不再因其报道而赢得艾美奖，但在她看来，这是她迄今为止最重要的任务，揭露这场“反人类战争”。她一定已经接近真实的故事了，因为美国媒体试图从各个方面让她保持沉默。
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What Happens When Dave Chappelle Buys Up Your Town
当戴夫·查普尔买下你的城镇时会发生什么
Tyler J.
泰勒·J。
Kelley | Bloomberg Businessweek | April 28, 2023 | 4,851 words
凯利|彭博商业周刊 | 2023 年 4 月 28 日 | 4,851 字
Dave Chappelle has lived full-time in the tiny, idyllic Ohio town of Yellow Springs for more than 15 years; at this point, it’s as much a part of his personal brand as the everpresent cigarette.
Dave Chappelle 在俄亥俄州田园诗般的小镇黄泉 (Yellow Springs) 全职生活了 15 年多。现在，它就像无处不在的香烟一样成为他个人品牌的一部分。
But as Tyler J.
但正如泰勒·J.
Kelley reports, Chappelle’s impact on Yellow Springs—including his many real estate purchases and a number of questionably zoned live shows—has become a point of contention among townspeople who fear the end of affordability and find themselves torn between pride and preservation.
凯利报道说，查佩尔对黄泉的影响——包括他购买的许多房地产和一些可疑的现场表演——已经成为镇民们争论的焦点，他们担心负担能力的终结，并发现自己在自豪感和保护之间左右为难。
Dozens spoke in favor of granting the variance, mostly touting the economic benefit of the shows.
数十人表示支持给予差异，主要是吹捧节目的经济效益。
Despite her doubts, Parsons voted yes.
尽管心存疑虑，帕森斯还是投了赞成票。
The measure passed unanimously.
该措施获得一致通过。
“When push came to shove, we caved,” she says.
“当事情到了紧要关头时，我们屈服了，”她说。
“I felt so dirty afterwards.” She took the weekend to think it over, then quit the board.
“事后我感觉很肮脏。”她花了一个周末考虑了一下，然后退出了董事会。
“If I haven’t got enough guts to stand up for what I believe, I’m not serving the people,” she says.
“如果我没有足够的勇气坚持我的信念，我就无法为人民服务，”她说。
The village has always been “weirdly dysfunctional,” she went on, but “now it’s not a fun dysfunction, and there’s people who are afraid.”
她接着说，这个村庄一直是“奇怪的功能失调”，但“现在这不是一种有趣的功能失调，而且有人感到害怕。”
With the variance granted, the shows carried on until the end of the summer.
在获得批准后，演出一直持续到夏末。
In the village, the T-shirt shop sold more T-shirts, the restaurants sold more dinners, and the record store sold more comedy records.
在村里，T恤店卖了更多的T恤，餐馆卖了更多的晚餐，唱片店卖了更多的喜剧唱片。
The celebrities arrived, the fans were happy, the jokes were funny.
名人来了，粉丝们很高兴，笑话很有趣。
Meanwhile, the tensions of past years continued to bubble beneath the surface like sulfurous spring water
与此同时，过去几年的紧张局势继续像硫磺泉水一样在表面下冒泡
Dozens spoke in favor of granting the variance, mostly touting the economic benefit of the shows.
数十人表示支持给予差异，主要是吹捧节目的经济效益。
Despite her doubts, Parsons voted yes.
尽管心存疑虑，帕森斯还是投了赞成票。
The measure passed unanimously.
该措施获得一致通过。
“When push came to shove, we caved,” she says.
“当事情到了紧要关头时，我们屈服了，”她说。
“I felt so dirty afterwards.” She took the weekend to think it over, then quit the board.
“事后我感觉很肮脏。”她花了一个周末考虑了一下，然后退出了董事会。
“If I haven’t got enough guts to stand up for what I believe, I’m not serving the people,” she says.
“如果我没有足够的勇气坚持我的信念，我就无法为人民服务，”她说。
The village has always been “weirdly dysfunctional,” she went on, but “now it’s not a fun dysfunction, and there’s people who are afraid.”
她接着说，这个村庄一直是“奇怪的功能失调”，但“现在这不是一种有趣的功能失调，而且有人感到害怕。”
With the variance granted, the shows carried on until the end of the summer.
在获得批准后，演出一直持续到夏末。
In the village, the T-shirt shop sold more T-shirts, the restaurants sold more dinners, and the record store sold more comedy records.
在村里，T恤店卖了更多的T恤，餐馆卖了更多的晚餐，唱片店卖了更多的喜剧唱片。
The celebrities arrived, the fans were happy, the jokes were funny.
名人来了，粉丝们很高兴，笑话很有趣。
Meanwhile, the tensions of past years continued to bubble beneath the surface like sulfurous spring water
与此同时，过去几年的紧张局势继续像硫磺泉水一样在表面下冒泡
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The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
医生对儿童进行实验的别墅
Margaret Talbot | The New Yorker | September 25, 2023 | 14,695 words
玛格丽特·塔尔伯特 |纽约客 | 2023 年 9 月 25 日 | 14,695 字
In postwar Austria, a psychologist named Maria Nowak-Vogl ran a mysterious psychiatric facility where “difficult” children were sent.
在战后的奥地利，一位名叫玛丽亚·诺瓦克-沃格尔的心理学家经营着一家神秘的精神病院，“困难”的儿童被送往那里。
With help from a friend and journalist, Margaret Talbot, Evy Mages mines memories of her time at this child-observation station in the mid-seventies, remembering all the abuse that happened there.
在朋友兼记者玛格丽特·塔尔博特的帮助下，艾薇·玛吉斯挖掘了她在七十年代中期这个儿童观察站的时光，回忆起那里发生的所有虐待事件。
Nowak-Vogl was a well-respected academic; she was also trained by Nazis and believed in repressive practices and cruel punishments to make children compliant and “socially desirable,” including administering epiphysan, a shot meant to suppress sexual urges.
诺瓦克-沃格尔是一位受人尊敬的学者。她还接受过纳粹的训练，相信镇压做法和残酷的惩罚可以让孩子们顺从并“符合社会要求”，包括注射骨骺针，一种旨在抑制性冲动的注射剂。
Talbot accompanies Mages to Austria to learn more about Nowak-Vogl and the villa—which operated from the mid-fifties until the late-eighties—as well as her own family history.
塔尔博特陪同马吉斯前往奥地利，了解更多关于诺瓦克-沃格尔和这座从五十年代中期到八十年代末经营的别墅的信息，以及她自己的家族历史。
This story is as horrific and dark as it sounds.
这个故事听起来既可怕又黑暗。
Amazingly, though, Mages has come out the other side, now helping other victims connect with each other and making it easier for them to report the abuse they experienced as children.
然而，令人惊讶的是，法师们已经走出了另一边，现在帮助其他受害者相互联系，让他们更容易报告他们小时候经历的虐待。
A news article about the commission’s findings described the villa as a combination of “home, prison, and testing clinic.” The commission had reviewed medical records and reported something shocking: children had been injected with epiphysan, an extract derived from the pineal glands of cattle which veterinarians used to suppress estrus in mares and cows.
关于该委员会调查结果的一篇新闻文章将这座别墅描述为“住宅、监狱和检测诊所”的结合体。该委员会审查了医疗记录并报告了一些令人震惊的事情：儿童被注射了骨骺素，这是一种从牛的松果体中提取的提取物，兽医用它来抑制母马和奶牛的发情。
Nowak-Vogl, a conservative Catholic, had wanted to see if epiphysan would suppress sexual feelings in children, as well as discourage masturbation, thus rendering her charges more “manageable.” Masturbation—among both adolescents and young children, who use it to self-soothe—was a preoccupation of Nowak-Vogl’s.
诺瓦克-沃格尔是一位保守的天主教徒，她想看看骨骺是否会抑制儿童的性感觉，并阻止手淫，从而使她的指控更“易于管理”。手淫——青少年和幼儿都用手淫来自我安慰——是诺瓦克-沃格尔最关心的事情。
So was bed-wetting.
尿床也是如此。
Her staff was instructed to keep charts documenting urination and bowel movements, and to check children’s underwear “with the eyes or the nose.” Schreiber described her as being “on a crusade against masturbation and sexual excitedness.”
她的工作人员被指示保留记录排尿和排便的图表，并“用眼睛或鼻子”检查儿童的内衣。施赖伯形容她“正在一场反对手淫和性兴奋的运动”。
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The Ones We Sent Away
那些被我们送走的人
Jennifer Senior | The Atlantic | August 7, 2023 | 13,585 words
詹妮弗高级|大西洋 | 2023 年 8 月 7 日 | 13,585 字
In her gut-wrenching piece—a masterpiece of thoughtful longform journalism—Jennifer Senior profiles her aunt Adele, a woman eventually diagnosed with Coffin-Siris syndrome 12 after being institutionalized for decades.
詹妮弗·西尼尔（Jennifer Senior）在她令人心痛的长篇新闻杰作中，介绍了她的姨妈阿黛尔（Adele），这位女士在被送进收容机构几十年后，最终被诊断出患有科芬-西里斯综合症 12。
Senior attempts to understand the trauma Adele and her family suffered after being deprived of one another based on medical advice considered best at the time.
高级人士试图根据当时认为最好的医疗建议来了解阿黛尔和她的家人在被剥夺彼此后所遭受的创伤。
My grandmother told my mother that she instantly knew something was different when Adele was born.
我的祖母告诉我的母亲，当阿黛尔出生时，她立刻就知道有些东西不同了。
Her cry wasn’t like other babies’.
她的哭声不像其他婴儿。
She was inconsolable, had to be carried everywhere.
她伤心欲绝，到处都得被人抬着。
Her family doctor said nonsense, Adele was fine.
她的家庭医生说废话，阿黛尔没事。
For an entire year, he maintained that she was fine, even though, at the age of 1, she couldn’t hold a bottle and didn’t respond to the stimuli that other toddlers do.
整整一年，他都坚持认为她很好，尽管她一岁时还不能拿着奶瓶，也不像其他幼儿那样对刺激做出反应。
I can’t imagine what this casual brush-off must have done to my grandmother, who knew, in some back cavern of her heart, that her daughter was not the same as other children.
我无法想象这种不经意的拒绝会对我的祖母造成什么影响，她知道，在她内心的某个深处，她的女儿和其他孩子不一样。
But it was 1952, the summer that Adele turned 1.
但那是 1952 年，阿黛尔一岁那年夏天。
What male doctor took a working-class woman without a college education seriously in 1952?
1952年，哪个男医生会认真对待一个没有受过大学教育的工人阶级女性？
Only when my mother and her family went to the Catskills that same summer did a doctor finally offer a very different diagnosis.
直到同年夏天，当我母亲和她的家人去了卡茨基尔山时，医生才最终给出了截然不同的诊断。
My grandmother had gone to see this local fellow not because Adele was sick, but because she was; Adele had merely come along.
我的祖母去看望这个当地人，不是因为阿黛尔病了，而是因为她病了。阿黛尔只是过来了。
But whatever ailed my grandmother didn’t capture this man’s attention.
但无论我祖母有什么毛病，都没有引起这个人的注意。
Her daughter did.
她女儿做到了。
He took one look at her and demanded to know whether my aunt was getting the care she required.
他看了她一眼，询问我姨妈是否得到了她所需要的护理。
My grandmother told my mother that she instantly knew something was different when Adele was born.
我的祖母告诉我的母亲，当阿黛尔出生时，她立刻就知道有些东西不同了。
Her cry wasn’t like other babies’.
她的哭声不像其他婴儿。
She was inconsolable, had to be carried everywhere.
她伤心欲绝，到处都得被人抬着。
Her family doctor said nonsense, Adele was fine.
她的家庭医生说废话，阿黛尔没事。
For an entire year, he maintained that she was fine, even though, at the age of 1, she couldn’t hold a bottle and didn’t respond to the stimuli that other toddlers do.
整整一年，他都坚持认为她很好，尽管她一岁时还不能拿着奶瓶，也不像其他幼儿那样对刺激做出反应。
I can’t imagine what this casual brush-off must have done to my grandmother, who knew, in some back cavern of her heart, that her daughter was not the same as other children.
我无法想象这种不经意的拒绝会对我的祖母造成什么影响，她知道，在她内心的某个深处，她的女儿和其他孩子不一样。
But it was 1952, the summer that Adele turned 1.
但那是 1952 年，阿黛尔一岁那年夏天。
What male doctor took a working-class woman without a college education seriously in 1952?
1952年，哪个男医生会认真对待一个没有受过大学教育的工人阶级女性？
Only when my mother and her family went to the Catskills that same summer did a doctor finally offer a very different diagnosis.
直到同年夏天，当我母亲和她的家人去了卡茨基尔山时，医生才最终给出了截然不同的诊断。
My grandmother had gone to see this local fellow not because Adele was sick, but because she was; Adele had merely come along.
我的祖母去看望这个当地人，不是因为阿黛尔病了，而是因为她病了。阿黛尔只是过来了。
But whatever ailed my grandmother didn’t capture this man’s attention.
但无论我祖母有什么毛病，都没有引起这个人的注意。
Her daughter did.
她女儿做到了。
He took one look at her and demanded to know whether my aunt was getting the care she required.
他看了她一眼，询问我姨妈是否得到了她所需要的护理。
## 7.
## 7.
A Catatonic Woman Awakened After 20 Years.
一名患有紧张症的女人二十年后觉醒。
Her Story May Change Psychiatry.
她的故事可能会改变精神病学。
Richard Sima | The Washington Post | June 1, 2023 | 4,122 words
理查德·西玛|华盛顿邮报 | 2023 年 6 月 1 日 | 4,122 字
Could autoimmune diseases be at the root of some mental illnesses?
自身免疫性疾病可能是某些精神疾病的根源吗？
Sander Markx, director of precision psychiatry at Columbia University, thinks so.
哥伦比亚大学精准精神病学主任桑德·马克克斯 (Sander Markx) 这么认为。
“By all accounts, she was thriving, in overall good health and showing no signs of mental distress beyond the normal teenage growing pains,” they said of April Burrell.
他们在谈到阿普丽尔·伯勒尔时说：“从各方面来看，她都很健康，总体健康状况良好，除了正常的青少年成长烦恼之外，没有任何精神困扰的迹象。”
This was before she suffered a traumatic experience, became incoherent, and was hospitalized.
这是在她遭受创伤性经历、变得语无伦次并住院之前。
Twenty years after she became catatonic, Markx discovered that April’s bloodwork showed antibodies were attacking her brain.
患上紧张症二十年后，马克克斯发现阿普丽尔的血液检查显示抗体正在攻击她的大脑。
Miraculously, after several courses of steroids and immunosuppressive drugs, April improved to the point where in 2020, she was deemed mentally competent enough to check herself out of treatment, but not before a joyful reunion with her family.
奇迹般的是，经过几个疗程的类固醇和免疫抑制药物后，阿普丽尔的病情得到了改善，到 2020 年，她被认为精神上有能力停止治疗，但在此之前她必须与家人快乐团聚。
The medical team set to work counteracting April’s rampaging immune system and started April on an intensive immunotherapy treatment for neuropsychiatric lupus.
医疗团队开始着手对抗四月份肆虐的免疫系统，并从四月份开始对神经精神狼疮进行强化免疫治疗。
Every month for six months, April would receive short, but powerful “pulses” of intravenous steroids for five days, plus a single dose of cyclophosphamide, a heavy-duty immunosuppressive drug typically used in chemotherapy and borrowed from the field of oncology.
在六个月的时间里，四月每个月都会接受为期五天的短暂但强大的静脉注射类固醇“脉冲”，加上单剂量的环磷酰胺，这是一种从肿瘤学领域借用的通常用于化疗的重型免疫抑制药物。
She was also treated with rituximab, a drug initially developed for lymphoma.
她还接受了利妥昔单抗治疗，这是一种最初为淋巴瘤开发的药物。
The regimen is grueling, requiring a month-long break between each of the six rounds to allow the immune system to recover.
该疗法非常艰苦，六轮之间每轮都需要一个月的休息时间，以使免疫系统恢复。
But April started showing signs of improvement almost immediately.
但四月份几乎立即开始显示出改善的迹象。
The medical team set to work counteracting April’s rampaging immune system and started April on an intensive immunotherapy treatment for neuropsychiatric lupus.
医疗团队开始着手对抗四月份肆虐的免疫系统，并从四月份开始对神经精神狼疮进行强化免疫治疗。
Every month for six months, April would receive short, but powerful “pulses” of intravenous steroids for five days, plus a single dose of cyclophosphamide, a heavy-duty immunosuppressive drug typically used in chemotherapy and borrowed from the field of oncology.
在六个月的时间里，四月每个月都会接受为期五天的短暂但强大的静脉注射类固醇“脉冲”，加上单剂量的环磷酰胺，这是一种从肿瘤学领域借用的通常用于化疗的重型免疫抑制药物。
She was also treated with rituximab, a drug initially developed for lymphoma.
她还接受了利妥昔单抗治疗，这是一种最初为淋巴瘤开发的药物。
The regimen is grueling, requiring a month-long break between each of the six rounds to allow the immune system to recover.
该疗法非常艰苦，六轮之间每轮都需要一个月的休息时间，以使免疫系统恢复。
But April started showing signs of improvement almost immediately.
但四月份几乎立即开始显示出改善的迹象。
## 8.
## 8.
Death On The Savage Mountain: What Really Happened On K2, And Why 100 Climbers Stepped Over A Dying Man On Their Way To The Summit
野蛮山上的死亡事件：K2 峰上到底发生了什么，以及为什么 100 名登山者在登顶途中踩过一名垂死的男子
Matthew Loh | Insider | August 21, 2023 | 6,472 words
马修·罗 |内幕 | 2023 年 8 月 21 日 | 6,472 字
What price would you pay to summit K2, a mountain far more technical and challenging than Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain?
您愿意付出什么代价来登顶乔戈里峰，这座山比世界最高峰珠穆朗玛峰的技术性和挑战性要高得多？
Could you literally walk past a dying man in order to get there?
你真的可以从一个垂死的人身边走过去到达那里吗？
This past July 27th, 100 people bypassed Pakistani porter Mohammed Hassan on their way to the summit as he lay dying after a fall.
今年 7 月 27 日，巴基斯坦搬运工穆罕默德·哈桑 (Mohammed Hassan) 跌倒后生命垂危，途中有 100 人绕过了他。
For Insider, Matthew Loh tries to understand.
对于 Insider，Matthew Loh 试图理解。
By the end of the summit window, at least 102 people had conquered K2.
到登顶窗口结束时，至少有 102 人征服了乔戈里峰。
All paying climbers would descend the mountain safely, and regroup at base camp.
所有付费登山者都会安全下山，并在大本营重新集合。
Mohammad did not.
穆罕默德没有。
His death would shake the mountaineering industry in the weeks to come, and eventually make headlines worldwide.
他的去世将在未来几周内震动登山界，并最终成为世界各地的头条新闻。
The climbers who summited K2 that day were swept into the heart of a bitter debate.
那天登顶乔戈里峰的登山者陷入了一场激烈的争论。
Speculation churned as people argued whether a man more than 8,000 meters above sea level could have been saved from the Mountain of Mountains — or whether greed for glory had blinded more than 100 climbers and left Mohammad stranded on the ice.
人们争论是否可以从万山之山救出一名海拔超过 8000 米的男子，或者是否对荣耀的贪婪导致了 100 多名登山者失明并让穆罕默德被困在冰上。
By the end of the summit window, at least 102 people had conquered K2.
到登顶窗口结束时，至少有 102 人征服了乔戈里峰。
All paying climbers would descend the mountain safely, and regroup at base camp.
所有付费登山者都会安全下山，并在大本营重新集合。
Mohammad did not.
穆罕默德没有。
His death would shake the mountaineering industry in the weeks to come, and eventually make headlines worldwide.
他的去世将在未来几周内震动登山界，并最终成为世界各地的头条新闻。
The climbers who summited K2 that day were swept into the heart of a bitter debate.
那天登顶乔戈里峰的登山者陷入了一场激烈的争论。
Speculation churned as people argued whether a man more than 8,000 meters above sea level could have been saved from the Mountain of Mountains — or whether greed for glory had blinded more than 100 climbers and left Mohammad stranded on the ice.
人们争论是否可以从万山之山救出一名海拔超过 8000 米的男子，或者是否对荣耀的贪婪导致了 100 多名登山者失明并让穆罕默德被困在冰上。
## 9.
## 9.
“America Does Not Deserve Me.” Why Black People Are Leaving the United States
“美国配不上我。”为什么黑人离开美国
Kate Linthicum | Los Angeles Times | October 10, 2023 | 2,576 words
凯特·林西肯 |洛杉矶时报 | 2023 年 10 月 10 日 | 2,576 字
The pandemic prompted a lot of people to move to a lot of different places.
大流行促使很多人搬到很多不同的地方。
But as Kate Linthicum reports for LAT, the scale of “Blaxit”—Black Americans’ emigration around the world—could make it one of the largest such patterns since the 1920s.
但正如 Kate Linthicum 为 LAT 报道的那样，“Blaxit”——美国黑人在世界范围内的移民——的规模可能会使其成为 20 年代以来规模最大的此类模式之一。
But while Europe has long been a home for Black American artists, the current moment stretches from Mexico to Ghana, and encompasses all walks of life.
尽管欧洲长期以来一直是美国黑人艺术家的故乡，但目前的情况已从墨西哥延伸到加纳，涵盖了各行各业。
This is what following one’s bliss looks like.
这就是追随幸福的样子。
[Nuriddin] acknowledges that she is lucky to have a job that allows her to work remotely, and that a lot of people, including many of those from her parents’ generation, don’t.
[努里丁]承认，她很幸运能找到一份可以远程工作的工作，而很多人，包括她父母那一代的人，都没有。
She’s trying to convince her cousins to find work that will allow them to live outside of the country.
她正试图说服她的表兄弟姐妹找到一份可以让他们在国外生活的工作。
Like many Black expats here, she’s still learning Spanish.
像这里的许多黑人侨民一样，她仍在学习西班牙语。
She communicates easily with the English-speaking descendants of Jamaicans, but talking to other Costa Ricans is hard.
她与讲英语的牙买加人后裔交流很容易，但与其他哥斯达黎加人交流却很困难。
Still, she says she feels a mutual recognition when she locks eyes with Black locals.
尽管如此，她说，当她与当地人目光注视时，她感到一种相互认可。
“There’s almost a little glimmer in the eye when you look at each other,” she said.
“当你们互相看着对方时，眼睛里几乎都会闪烁着一点光芒，”她说。
“There’s like a little nod.”
“就像是一个小小的点头。”
[Nuriddin] acknowledges that she is lucky to have a job that allows her to work remotely, and that a lot of people, including many of those from her parents’ generation, don’t.
[努里丁]承认，她很幸运能找到一份可以远程工作的工作，而很多人，包括她父母那一代的人，都没有。
She’s trying to convince her cousins to find work that will allow them to live outside of the country.
她正试图说服她的表兄弟姐妹找到一份可以让他们在国外生活的工作。
Like many Black expats here, she’s still learning Spanish.
像这里的许多黑人侨民一样，她仍在学习西班牙语。
She communicates easily with the English-speaking descendants of Jamaicans, but talking to other Costa Ricans is hard.
她与讲英语的牙买加人后裔交流很容易，但与其他哥斯达黎加人交流却很困难。
Still, she says she feels a mutual recognition when she locks eyes with Black locals.
尽管如此，她说，当她与当地人目光注视时，她感到一种相互认可。
“There’s almost a little glimmer in the eye when you look at each other,” she said.
“当你们互相看着对方时，眼睛里几乎都会闪烁着一点光芒，”她说。
“There’s like a little nod.”
“就像是一个小小的点头。”
## 10.
## 10.
My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon
我和移植的心脏很快就会死去
Amy Silverstein | The New York Times | April 18, 2023 | 1,587 words
艾米西尔弗斯坦|纽约时报 | 2023 年 4 月 18 日 | 1,587 字
Author Amy Silverstein has had a heart transplant—twice.
作者艾米·西尔弗斯坦曾接受过两次心脏移植手术。
Now she’s dying of cancer.
现在她死于癌症。
Those facts are related, as she explains in this essay.
正如她在本文中所解释的，这些事实是相关的。
The procedure that saved her is now killing her.
拯救她的手术现在正在杀死她。
I gave my all to sustaining my donor hearts despite daunting odds, and the hearts rewarded me with extraordinary years.
尽管困难重重，我还是竭尽全力维持捐赠的心脏，这些心脏给了我非凡的岁月。
I have been so lucky.
我很幸运。
But now I lower my chin and whisper the words malignant …
但现在我低下下巴，低声说出“恶毒”这个词……
metastatic …
转移性…
lungs …
肺……
terminal.
终端。
It is the end of the road for my heart and me — not because we didn’t achieve and maintain sparkling cardiac health.
对于我和我的心脏来说，这是路的尽头——并不是因为我们没有实现并保持闪亮的心脏健康。
But because the sorry state of transplant medicine took us down.
但由于移植医学的糟糕状况让我们失望了。
Organ transplantation is mired in stagnant science and antiquated, imprecise medicine that fails patients and organ donors.
器官移植陷入停滞的科学和陈旧、不精确的医学之中，令患者和器官捐赠者失望。
And I understand the irony of an incredibly successful and fortunate two-time heart transplant recipient making this case, but my longevity also provides me with a unique vantage point.
我理解一个极其成功和幸运的两次心脏移植接受者提出这个案例的讽刺意味，但我的长寿也为我提供了一个独特的优势。
Standing on the edge of death now, I feel compelled to use my experience in the transplant trenches to illuminate and challenge the status quo.
现在，站在死亡的边缘，我感到有必要用我在移植战壕中的经历来阐明和挑战现状。
I gave my all to sustaining my donor hearts despite daunting odds, and the hearts rewarded me with extraordinary years.
尽管困难重重，我还是竭尽全力维持捐赠的心脏，这些心脏给了我非凡的岁月。
I have been so lucky.
我很幸运。
But now I lower my chin and whisper the words malignant …
但现在我低下下巴，低声说出“恶毒”这个词……
metastatic …
转移性…
lungs …
肺……
terminal.
终端。
It is the end of the road for my heart and me — not because we didn’t achieve and maintain sparkling cardiac health.
对于我和我的心脏来说，这是路的尽头——并不是因为我们没有实现并保持闪亮的心脏健康。
But because the sorry state of transplant medicine took us down.
但由于移植医学的糟糕状况让我们失望了。
Organ transplantation is mired in stagnant science and antiquated, imprecise medicine that fails patients and organ donors.
器官移植陷入停滞的科学和陈旧、不精确的医学之中，令患者和器官捐赠者失望。
And I understand the irony of an incredibly successful and fortunate two-time heart transplant recipient making this case, but my longevity also provides me with a unique vantage point.
我理解一个极其成功和幸运的两次心脏移植接受者提出这个案例的讽刺意味，但我的长寿也为我提供了一个独特的优势。
Standing on the edge of death now, I feel compelled to use my experience in the transplant trenches to illuminate and challenge the status quo.
现在，站在死亡的边缘，我感到有必要用我在移植战壕中的经历来阐明和挑战现状。
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