Longreads Best of 2016: Our 25 Most Popular Exclusives of the Year
Thanks to funding from Longreads Members and a generous match from WordPress.com, we were able to publish another fantastic year of original reporting, essays, book excerpts, and exclusives in partnership with other publishers and some of our favorite writers.
感谢 Longreads 会员的资助和 WordPress.com 的慷慨资助，我们能够与其他出版商和一些我们最喜欢的作家合作，出版又一个精彩的一年，其中包括原创报道、论文、书籍摘录和独家报道。
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Below are the 25 most popular exclusives we published this year.
以下是我们今年发布的 25 款最受欢迎的独家报道。
You can see all of our stories here.
您可以在这里看到我们所有的故事。
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Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy (Kevin Bales)
你的手机是奴隶制造的：秘密经济入门（凯文·贝尔斯）
On the new triangle trade, and the surprising connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster.
关于新三角贸易，以及现代奴隶制与生态灾难之间的惊人联系。
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STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer (Maria Bustillos)
STAT：我女儿的多发性硬化症诊断和我的医生无法回答的问题（玛丽亚·布斯蒂洛斯）
Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis?
多发性硬化症有饮食治疗吗？
And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?
如果是这样，为什么医疗机构忽视 20 世纪 50 年代开始发表的学术研究来证明这一点？
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The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion (Rob Tannenbaum)
双性人奥林匹克冠军斯特拉·沃尔什的生平和谋杀（罗布·坦南鲍姆饰演）
Eighty years ago, in Berlin, Stella Walsh won her second Olympic medal.
八十年前，斯特拉·沃尔什在柏林赢得了她的第二枚奥运会奖牌。
Decades later, Walsh’s murder and subsequent autopsy threw the legacy of track’s first female superstar into turmoil.
几十年后，沃尔什的谋杀和随后的尸检使这位田径第一位女超级巨星的遗产陷入混乱。
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Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin (Elizabeth Hyde Stevens)
博尔赫斯和美元：文学大师和硬币的寓言（伊丽莎白·海德·史蒂文斯）
Thirty years ago, the world lost a great literary mind—the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.
三十年前，世界失去了一位伟大的文学家——阿根廷作家兼诗人豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯。
Today, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens revisits the financial conditions that produced this life of pure literature, finding unexpected hope in the darkest period of Borges’ forgotten past.
今天，伊丽莎白·海德·史蒂文斯重新审视了产生这种纯文学生活的经济状况，在博尔赫斯被遗忘的过去的最黑暗时期找到了意想不到的希望。
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Truther Love (Sabine Heinlein)
真相者之爱（萨宾·海因莱因 饰）
Uncovering the dating habits of conspiracy theorists and the challenges they face.
揭示阴谋论者的约会习惯以及他们面临的挑战。
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My Dinner With Rasputin (Teffi)
我和拉斯普京的晚餐（Teffi）
Writing in 1924, Teffi, a Russian writer in exile known for her wit, recalls a series of humorous (but increasingly ominous) encounters with the trusted friend of the last Tsar of Russia.
特菲是一位以机智闻名的俄罗斯流亡作家，写于 1924 年，回忆了与俄罗斯末代沙皇值得信赖的朋友的一系列幽默（但越来越不祥）的遭遇。
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Playing with History: What Sid Meier’s Video Game Empire Got Right and Wrong About ‘Civilization’ (Kanishk Tharoor and Kill Screen)
玩弄历史：席德·梅尔的电子游戏帝国对《文明》的看法是对还是错（Kanishk Tharoor 和 Kill Screen）
Twenty-five years ago, Meier turned human history into a video game, and sold 33 million copies along the way.
25 年前，迈尔将人类历史变成了一款电子游戏，一路上卖出了 3300 万份。
With the launch of Civilization VI, Kanishk Tharoor takes a closer look at its impact.
随着《文明 VI》的推出，卡尼什克·塔鲁尔 (Kanishk Tharoor) 仔细研究了其影响。
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Women Were Included in the Civil Rights Act as a Joke (Gillian Thomas)
妇女被纳入民权法案只是一个笑话（吉莉安·托马斯）
And a racist joke, at that.
还有一个种族主义笑话。
But working women and black civil rights lawyers had the last laugh when they brought women’s workplace rights to the courts and won.
但当职业女性和黑人民权律师将女性的工作场所权利诉诸法庭并获胜时，她们笑到了最后。
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A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson (Jerome Charyn)
上膛的枪：真正的艾米莉·狄金森（杰罗姆·查林）
She was less like a recluse, more like a bomb going off.
她不像一个隐士，而更像一颗爆炸的炸弹。
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Mass Extinction: The Early Years (Ashley Dawson)
大规模灭绝：早年（阿什利·道森）
A quick rundown of the ecocidal empires that came before us.
快速概述我们面前的生态灭绝帝国。
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“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack (Adrian Daub)
“BRAAAM！”：入侵好莱坞原声带的声音（Adrian Daub）
How Inception changed the way we listen to movies.
《盗梦空间》如何改变我们听电影的方式。
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Home Is Where the Fraud Is (David Dayen)
家就是欺诈所在（大卫·戴恩）
At the height of the housing crisis, one woman’s bureaucratic odyssey to discover who really owns her home leads her to startling revelations about the housing market.
在住房危机最严重的时候，一位女性在官僚作风中不断探索谁真正拥有她的房子，这让她对房地产市场有了惊人的了解。
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A Fish So Coveted People Have Smuggled, Kidnapped, and Killed For It (Emily Voigt)
人们为了它而走私、绑架和杀害一条如此令人垂涎的鱼（艾米丽·沃伊特）
The Asian arowana or “dragon fish” is protected by the Endangered Species Act and illegal to own in the U.S. But the tropical fish’s status symbol among wealthy buyers has made it the object of a thriving black market.
亚洲龙鱼或“龙鱼”受到《濒危物种法》的保护，在美国拥有是非法的。但这种热带鱼在富裕买家中的地位象征使其成为蓬勃发展的黑市的对象。
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On Female Friendship and the Sisters We Choose for Ourselves (Chloe Caldwell)
论女性友谊和我们为自己选择的姐妹（克洛伊·考德威尔）
Essayist Chloe Caldwell on the “sisters” we choose for ourselves, and her close relationship with her surrogate younger sister, Cheryl Strayed’s daughter Bobbi.
散文家克洛伊·考德威尔谈论我们为自己选择的“姐妹”，以及她与她的代孕妹妹谢丽尔·斯特雷德的女儿博比的密切关系。
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Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?
局外人真的可以成为阿米什人吗？
(Kelsey Osgood and Atlas Obscura)
（凯尔西·奥斯古德和阿特拉斯·奥布斯库拉）
One of the rarest religious experiences you can have in America is to join the Plain.
在美国最难得的宗教体验之一就是加入平原。
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What Ever Happened to ‘The Most Liberated Woman in America’?
“美国最自由的女性”发生了什么？
(Alex Mar and Atlas Obscura)
（亚历克斯·马尔和阿特拉斯·奥布斯库拉）
Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments in America.
芭芭拉·威廉姆森是美国最著名的激进性实验之一的共同创始人。
Then she got wild.
然后她就变得狂野起来。
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Why I Hate My Dog (Richard Gilbert)
为什么我讨厌我的狗（理查德·吉尔伯特）
In this lighthearted portrait of his family’s rescue dog, author Richard Gilbert explores the larger bond between human and animal.
在这幅自家救援犬的轻松肖像中，作者理查德·吉尔伯特探索了人与动物之间更广泛的联系。
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The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse (Elizabeth Letts)
纳粹培育完美马的秘密尝试（伊丽莎白·莱茨）
The bestselling author of ‘The Eighty Dollar Champion’ describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.
畅销书《八十美元冠军》的作者描述了纳粹的秘密种马场，可疑的梦想家在那里想象出一种完美的（而且是完美的白色）马。
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What Ever Happened to Planet Vulcan?
火神星发生了什么？
(Thomas Leveson)
（托马斯·莱维森）
The story of the planet closest to our sun, aptly named Vulcan, which accidentally existed for half a century.
距离我们太阳最近的行星的故事，它恰如其分地命名为火神星，它意外地存在了半个世纪。
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Our Well-Regulated Militia (Alexander Chee)
我们纪律严明的民兵（亚历山大·奇）
Is the conversation around guns in this country really about the right to bear arms?
这个国家有关枪支的讨论真的是关于携带武器的权利吗？
Author Alexander Chee interrogates the proliferation of firearms and growing gun culture in the U.S., the complicated, polarized politics around gun control—and the notion that with more guns, we are somehow safer.
作者亚历山大·奇 (Alexander Chee) 质疑美国枪支泛滥和枪支文化的发展、围绕枪支管制的复杂、两极分化的政治，以及拥有更多枪支，我们在某种程度上更安全的观念。
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The Invisible Forces Behind All of Our Decision-Making (Jessica Gross)
我们所有决策背后的无形力量（杰西卡·格罗斯）
Author Jonah Berger explains when and why we follow the herd.
作者乔纳·伯杰解释了我们何时以及为何随波逐流。
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman (Chris Jennings)
当弥赛亚来到美国时，她是一个女人（克里斯·詹宁斯）
On the rise and fall of American utopia.
论美国乌托邦的兴衰。
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The Mystery of Carl Miller (Sarah Miller)
卡尔·米勒之谜（莎拉·米勒）
What if your last name is just the word that comes after your first name?
如果您的姓氏只是名字后面的单词怎么办？
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A Conversation With Dan Ariely About What Shapes Our Motivations (Jessica Gross)
与丹·艾瑞里关于什么塑造了我们的动机的对话（杰西卡·格罗斯）
Dan Ariely on building an understanding of how humans behave from the ground up.
丹·艾瑞里 (Dan Ariely) 致力于从头开始理解人类的行为方式。
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Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist
绑架纳粹将军：帕特里克·利·费莫尔的完美抢劫
Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor recalls his most dangerous journey.
旅行作家帕特里克·利·费莫尔回忆起他最危险的旅程。