Best of 2024: Our Most Popular Stories of the Year
This week, we’re continuing our Best of 2024 series and celebrating the original writing we publish on Longreads, including personal narratives, reported essays, and reading lists.
本周，我们将继续推出 2024 年最佳系列，庆祝我们在 Longreads 上发布的原创作品，包括个人叙述、报道文章和阅读清单。
We’ll also recognize this year’s top editors’ picks, published at outlets—big and small—across the web.
我们还将表彰今年的最佳编辑精选，这些精选在网络上大大小小的媒体上发布。
Today’s list compiles our 10 most-read Longreads essays.
今天的列表汇总了 10 篇阅读量最高的长读文章。
At number one, we start with Jonah Walters’ sharp, well-researched essay about volcanoes, earthquakes, and our culture’s fascination with natural disasters.
首先，我们从乔纳·沃尔特斯 (Jonah Walters) 的一篇犀利、经过深入研究的文章开始，内容涉及火山、地震以及我们的文化对自然灾害的迷恋。
As you scroll down the list, you’ll find nine notable essays, including thoughtful explorations of food, dangerous encounters in the wilderness, and more.
当你向下滚动列表时，你会发现九篇著名的文章，包括对食物的深思熟虑的探索、荒野中的危险遭遇等等。
Support from readers like you make this writing and journalism possible, so thank you!
像您这样的读者的支持使本文的写作和新闻工作成为可能，所以谢谢您！
There’s more to come in 2025.
2025 年还会有更多事情发生。
—Carolyn, Cheri, Krista, Peter & Seyward
——卡罗琳、谢里、克里斯塔、彼得和西沃德
## The Rip in the World
## 世界的撕裂
On volcanoes, earthquakes, and our attraction to disaster.
关于火山、地震以及我们对灾难的吸引力。
## I Nearly Died Drowning.
## 我差点淹死了。
Here’s What It’s Like to Survive.
这就是生存的感觉。
On coming to terms with a near-death experience.
接受濒死体验。
## I was Hypnotized as a Teen.
## 我十几岁的时候就被催眠了。
Was it Dangerous?
危险吗？
Each year, comedy hypnotists bring thousands of willing participants on stage to be hypnotized in front of crowds—harmless fun or risky business?
每年，喜剧催眠师都会将数千名愿意的参与者带到舞台上，在人群面前进行催眠——无害的乐趣还是有风险的生意？
## Insatiable: A Life Without Eating
## 贪得无厌：不吃东西的生活
When my Crohn’s disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
当我的克罗恩病夺走了食物时，它也夺走了人类的意义。
## The Lessons of Lore
## 传说中的教训
Ghost stories reveal our collective anxieties amid times of change.
鬼故事揭示了我们在变革时代的集体焦虑。
## Stumbling Can Be Lovely
## 绊倒也可以很可爱
On the many ways we fall—and the beauty of getting back up.
我们在很多方面跌倒了——以及重新站起来的美丽。
## Fuel, Medicine, Pleasure
## 燃料、药品、快乐
What could it mean to give yourself the food you need to keep going?
为自己提供维持生命所需的食物意味着什么？
No punishing, no guilt, no withholding.
没有惩罚，没有内疚，没有扣留。
Just nourishment.
只是滋养而已。
## Death of the Hiker
## 徒步旅行者之死
Lost on a dangerous trail, Leyton Cassidy’s thoughts take her down a dark path.
莱顿·卡西迪迷失在危险的道路上，她的思绪将她引向一条黑暗的道路。
## Danger on the Divide
## 鸿沟上的危险
“If I’d felt more confident on the route, if he hadn’t made that comment, if we’d been communicating more, would I have pushed for another day off?
“如果我对这条路线更有信心，如果他没有发表这样的评论，如果我们进行更多沟通，我会再多休息一天吗？
If, if, if.”
如果，如果，如果。”
## Safety Net
## 安全网
These days, when you work as a librarian in America, there is no lack of emergencies.
如今，当你在美国担任图书管理员时，不乏紧急情况。
Browse all of our year-end collections since 2011.
浏览我们自 2011 年以来的所有年终系列。