Longreads Best of 2012: Reyhan Harmanci
Reyhan Harmanci is deputy editor of Modern Farmer, a not-yet-launched publication devoted to issues of farming and food (and animals!).
Reyhan Harmanci 是《现代农民》的副主编，这是一本尚未发行的出版物，专门讨论农业和食品（以及动物！）问题。
Picking these stories activated an obsessive part of my brain and I’m already regretting throwing the “best” around without spending a few months reading all of the Longreads of 2012.
选择这些故事激活了我大脑中的一个强迫性部分，我已经后悔没有花几个月时间阅读 2012 年所有长读作品而把“最好的”扔掉了。
But there’s always 2013!
但2013年总是有的！
Best Farmer/Vampire Story
最佳农民/吸血鬼故事
“The Great New England Vampire Panic,” Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian
“伟大的新英格兰吸血鬼恐慌”，阿比盖尔·塔克，史密森尼
This story really needs to be read to be believed.
这个故事确实需要读一下才能相信。
First of all, hats off to the writer, Abigail Tucker, for introducing and then eliminating the possibility of a serial killer in the first ten lines.
首先，向作家阿比盖尔·塔克致敬，她在前十行中介绍并消除了连环杀手的可能性。
And then the chilling line: “Ever heard of the Jewett City vampires?” What follows is a window into East Coast agrarian life in the 1800s, a time when supernatural folklore took hold as demographic changes drained the land of people.
然后是令人毛骨悚然的台词：“听说过朱厄特城吸血鬼吗？”接下来是一扇了解 1800 年代东海岸农业生活的窗口，当时，随着人口变化导致土地资源枯竭，超自然的民间传说盛行。
(Also, you guys, VAMPIRES.)
（还有，你们，吸血鬼。）
Best Public Safety Story
最佳公共安全故事
“Silos Loom as Death Traps on American Farms,” John M.
“筒仓隐约成为美国农场的死亡陷阱”，约翰·M·
Broder, The New York Times
布罗德，《纽约时报》
Silos.
筒仓。
You don’t really think about them, right?
你并没有真正考虑过他们，对吧？
Thanks to this fantastic bit of reporting from The New York Times, you won’t be able to forget them.
感谢《纽约时报》的精彩报道，您将无法忘记他们。
When federal officials noticed that a strangely high percentage of “grain entrapment” deaths, basically corn avalanches, were those of teenage boys, regulators moved to ban child labor on the farm.
当联邦官员注意到“谷物被困”死亡（主要是玉米雪崩）中十几岁男孩的比例异常高时，监管机构开始禁止农场使用童工。
This caused a great controversy because child farm labor is the only kind exempted from labor regulations—many protested that it was a denial of age-old tradition.
这引起了很大的争议，因为农场童工是唯一不受劳动法规约束的劳动——许多人抗议说这是对古老传统的否定。
The forces that collided over this issue are fascinating, and heartbreaking.
在这个问题上相互冲突的力量令人着迷，也令人心碎。
Best Tech Criminal Story
最佳科技犯罪故事
“Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster,” Joseph L.
“诈骗世界：‘快速致富’计划变异为网络怪物，”约瑟夫·L·
Flatley, The Verge
弗拉特利，边缘
From The Verge, this in-depth look at the subculture of a particular kind of online scam stayed with me all year.
来自 The Verge 的这篇对特定类型在线诈骗亚文化的深入研究让我印象深刻一整年。
The reporter dug in, and got the perspectives of both those peddling a strange kind of snake oil (marketing, basically) and the poor souls who spend thousands of dollars on worthless products.
记者深入研究，了解了那些兜售一种奇怪的万金油（基本上是营销）的人和那些花数千美元购买毫无价值的产品的可怜人的观点。
I still can’t totally wrap my mind around what these Scamworld folks are selling—the ability to market yourself online?—but in a way, it doesn’t matter.
我仍然无法完全理解这些 Scamworld 的人在推销什么——在网上推销自己的能力？——但在某种程度上，这并不重要。
They are selling what con artists always sell: themselves.
他们出售的是骗子总是出售的东西：他们自己。
Best Immersion Journalism Story
最佳沉浸式新闻故事
“I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave,” Mac McClelland, Mother Jones
“我是一个仓库工资奴隶”，麦克·麦克莱兰，《琼斯妈妈》
Immersion pieces can be tricky—oftentimes, the writer spends most of the copy patting himself on the back for the bravery to, say, pretend to be homeless for a week or read the Bible in sequential order.
沉浸式作品可能会很棘手——通常，作者会花大部分时间来赞扬自己的勇气，比如假装无家可归一周或按顺序阅读圣经。
But Mac McClelland really nails the balance here, as she spends a month showing us something we never see: the elves who package our online shopping goods, for little wage and under bad conditions.
但麦克·麦克莱兰确实做到了这里的平衡，因为她花了一个月的时间向我们展示了一些我们从未见过的东西：包装我们在线购物商品的精灵，工资微薄，条件恶劣。
After this story came out, when I saw the headlines that Amazon was trying to do same-day shipping, my heart sunk.
这个故事出来后，当我看到亚马逊试图做当日送货的头条新闻时，我的心沉了下去。
Best Call-to-Action Essay
最佳号召性文章
“A Convenient Excuse,” Wen Stephenson, the Boston Phoenix
“一个方便的借口”，温·史蒂芬森，波士顿凤凰队
Okay, this story (or whatever it is—a combination of op-ed and essay) is far from perfect.
好吧，这个故事（或者无论是什么——专栏和文章的结合）远非完美。
But the issues raised by Wen Stephenson—a former editor for the Atlantic and longtime journalist—about how the media deals with (and doesn’t deal with) climate change are big.
但《大西洋月刊》前编辑、长期记者温·史蒂芬森提出的关于媒体如何应对（和不应对）气候变化的问题是很大的。
Very big.
很大。
The bottom line is that unless journalists treat the environmental changes happening right now on our planet as a crisis, not a debate, the public is not getting adequately informed.
最重要的是，除非记者将地球上正在发生的环境变化视为一场危机，而不是一场辩论，否则公众就无法充分了解情况。
We may not be all doomed yet but the odds are swiftly tilting against our favor.
我们或许还没有完蛋，但形势正在迅速向对我们有利的方向倾斜。
Read more guest picks from Longreads Best of 2012.
阅读 Longreads 2012 年度最佳嘉宾精选。