Longreads Best of 2014: Our 10 Most Popular Exclusives of the Year
This year, Longreads worked with a group of outstanding writers and publishers to produce original stories and exclusives that hadn’t been previously published online.
今年，Longreads 与一群杰出作家和出版商合作，制作了此前从未在网上发布过的原创故事和独家报道。
It was all funded with support from our Longreads Members.
这一切都是在我们的 Longreads 会员的支持下资助的。
You can read them all here.
您可以在这里阅读它们。
Here’s a list of the 10 most popular stories we published this year.
以下是我们今年发布的 10 个最受欢迎的故事。
Join us to help fund more stories in 2015.
加入我们，资助 2015 年更多故事。
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A Birth Story (Meaghan O’Connell)
出生故事（梅根·奥康奈尔）
Meaghan O’Connell had a perfect pregnancy and the perfect birth plan—and then she went into labor.
梅根·奥康奈尔 (Meaghan O’Connell) 经历了一次完美的怀孕和完美的生育计划，然后她就进入了分娩期。
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The Prodigal Prince: Richard Roberts and the Decline of the Oral Roberts Dynasty (Kiera Feldman, This Land Press)
浪子王子：理查德·罗伯茨和奥罗·罗伯茨王朝的衰落（基拉·费尔德曼，This Land Press）
He was the heir to the televangelist’s empire, but Richard Roberts soon disappeared from the university that his father founded.
他是电视布道者帝国的继承人，但理查德·罗伯茨很快就从他父亲创办的大学中消失了。
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Escape from Jonestown (Julia Scheeres)
逃离琼斯镇（朱莉娅·谢雷斯）
15-year-old Tommy Bogue was sent to a promising new church settlement in Guyana—run by a charismatic leader named Jim Jones.
15 岁的汤米·博格 (Tommy Bogue) 被送到圭亚那一个很有前途的新教堂定居点，该定居点由一位名叫吉姆·琼斯 (Jim Jones) 的魅力领袖经营。
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For the Public Good: The Shameful History of Forced Sterilization in the U.S. (Belle Boggs, The New New South)
为了公共利益：美国强制绝育的可耻历史（贝尔·博格斯，《新新南方》）
“I never figured out why they did that to me.” The story of a man who was sterilized by the state of North Carolina more than 65 years earlier, when he was only 14 years old and living in an institution for delinquent children.
“我一直不明白他们为什么要这样对我。”故事讲述了一名男子 65 多年前被北卡罗来纳州绝育的故事，当时他年仅 14 岁，住在一所收养不良儿童的机构中。
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Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American?
为什么这么多人假装是美国原住民？
(Russell Cobb, This Land Press)
（拉塞尔·科布，本土地出版社）
“What do Bill Clinton, Miley Cyrus, Johnny Cash, and Elizabeth Warren all have in common?
“比尔·克林顿、麦莉·赛勒斯、约翰尼·卡什和伊丽莎白·沃伦有什么共同点？
Answer: All of them have claimed to be part Cherokee, but none have been able to prove it.”
回答：他们都声称自己是切罗基人，但没有人能够证明这一点。”
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Falling: Love and Marriage in a Conservative Indian Family (Debie Thomas, River Teeth)
堕落：保守的印度家庭中的爱情与婚姻（黛比·托马斯，River Teeth）
Thomas shares her story about growing up in a conservative Indian family and reconciling the idea of arranged marriages with the Western world’s version of falling in love.
托马斯分享了她在一个保守的印度家庭长大的故事，以及如何调和包办婚姻的想法与西方世界的恋爱方式。
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The Rise and Fall of John DeLorean (Suzanne Snider, Tokion)
约翰·德罗宁的兴衰（苏珊娜·斯奈德、Tokion）
“It was the end of the story of John DeLorean as part of the American Dream—how a humble kid from Detroit could rise to the very top.”
“这是约翰·德洛林作为美国梦一部分的故事的结局——一个来自底特律的卑微孩子如何登上顶峰。”
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‘Mango, Mango!’ A Family, a Fruit Stand, and Survival on $4.50 a Day (Douglas Haynes, Orion)
“芒果，芒果！”一个家庭，一个水果摊，每天靠 4.5 美元生存（Douglas Haynes，Orion）
Life—and critical decisions—inside the largest commercial center in Central America.
中美洲最大的商业中心内的生活和关键决策。
“Fifty-three Walmart Supercenters would fit inside its roughly 225 acres.”
“其占地约 225 英亩，可容纳 53 个沃尔玛超级中心。”
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David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact (Josh Roiland, Literary Journalism Studies)
大卫·福斯特·华莱士与事实的本质（乔什·罗伊兰，文学新闻研究）
“David Foster Wallace saw clear lines between journalists and novelists who write nonfiction, and he wrestled throughout his career with whether a different set of rules applied to the latter category.”
“大卫·福斯特·华莱士在记者和写非小说类作品的小说家之间看到了清晰的界限，他在整个职业生涯中都在思考是否有一套不同的规则适用于后者。”
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The Honey Hunters (Michael Snyder, Lucky Peach)
蜂蜜猎人（迈克尔·施奈德、幸运桃子）
The most lucrative of all the forest’s products, and the most dangerous to gather.
所有森林产品中利润最高，但采集起来也最危险。
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