每周封面故事大家都看懂了吗？

财富 2024-11-12 09:15 浙江

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How we chose this week’s image

以第一二段为例，其实有很多知识点，不知道大家有没有发现哈，希望大家每周的封面故事可以好好看看

第一段：
To understand how we came up with this week’s cover you need to travel back to that far-off land where Donald Trump has not yet won the presidency and the election is still balanced on a knife-edge. We did not know who would win. We did not even know if we’d know who would win. The only thing we were certain of was that, if we waited until we had the information, our deadline might not give us enough time to come up with a decent design.

1."far-off land"：比喻性用法，指代过去的时间。

2."balanced on a knife-edge"：惯用表达，意为局势非常紧张或难以预测。

3."come up with"：想出，提出（想法或计划）。

Here, then, are a few of our contingency covers. It is astonishing how rapidly an election victory takes on the sense that it was inevitable. Think of this as a chance to reminisce. If you are a Democrat, you can recapture the moment when your hopes were still alive. If you are a Republican, you can savour your man’s stunning victory as if it were still fresh.

1."contingency covers"：应急封面，专业术语。

2."take on"：在此处意为"呈现"或"具有"。

这句话写的很好，可以用到日常写作中，先解析下这句话

这里将"election victory"（选举胜利）拟人化，赋予它能够"获得"或"呈现"某种感觉的能力。实际上，这种感觉是人们对事件的认知。"takes on"：在这里意味着"呈现"或"获得"。它暗示这种感觉是后来才产生的，而不是本来就存在的。"the sense that it was inevitable"：这里的"sense"指的是一种感觉或印象。"inevitable"意味着不可避免的、必然发生的。整句话意译可以理解为：选举结果一出，人们就迅速认定这个结果是必然的，这种认知转变的速度令人惊叹。这句话描述了一种常见的心理现象——事后诸葛亮效应（Hindsight Bias）。

日常写作举例：比如描述个人成长

As I look back on my college years, my decision to study abroad takes on the sense that it was inevitable. It shaped my career path in ways I couldn't have imagined at the time.

3."reminisce"：回忆，较正式的用词。

4."savour"：品味，享受（英式拼写，美式为"savor"）。

接下来的段落大家可以自行看看哈，有特别多的知识点

These are our throw-up-our-hands covers. We needed those because on election night it’s dangerous to presume anything. Every editor is haunted by the infamous headline in the Chicago Daily Tribune on November 3rd 1948: “Dewey Defeats Truman”.

Amid the uncertainty, we had put back the print deadline for our cover in America to Thursday morning London time. But we still needed to cater for the possibility that we would have no earthly idea who had won.

In one design a nation is taking refuge behind the sofa as a horror show unfolds; even the marmalade cat is alarmed. In the other we have ditched the sofa and the voters to leave a wide-eyed kitten which, frankly, is a bit mystifying. Is it a reference to the pet-eating immigrants in Springfield, Ohio? To cat-ladies? We never got as far as finding out.

We also needed a pair of “no result” covers which hinted that one candidate was nosing ahead of the other. As we went into Tuesday evening, the numbers said that we could just as well be preparing for President Harris as for President Trump.

In one of those self-serving revisions of the past, pundits on both sides are already behaving as if it was obvious all along that Mr Trump would triumph. The corollary is that the belief that Ms Harris could win was born out of hubris or bias. Our need to prepare for the possibility of a Harris win is a reminder of where the polls actually stood. On the eve of the vote they were within the margin of error.

This is the one that will tug hardest at Democrats’ heartstrings. There is already speculation that their candidate could run again in 2028. However, although it is surely only a matter of time before a woman sits behind the Resolute desk, the chances that she will be Ms Harris must be very slim.

After months of agonising, it was just 02:36 London time—21:36 Eastern time—when Dan Rosenheck, the head of our data team, sent a message over our election WhatsApp group to say that Mr Trump was on track to win. Three minutes later, he added that Ms Harris may even lose the popular vote. We needed to see if his prognostication was borne out, obviously, but it was time to focus on our Trump-wins covers.

There is something about the moment that always confounds your expectations. As the scale of Mr Trump’s achievement began to emerge, it became obvious that these designs did not begin to capture the mood. One was too satirical and the other low-energy.

As our editorial was later to declare, Mr Trump’s triumphant return to the White House makes him the most consequential American president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Trump era is a return to an old idea of America. Before the fight against fascism convinced FDR that it was in his country’s interest to help bring order and prosperity to the world, the country was hostile towards immigration, scornful of trade and sceptical of foreign entanglements. That is the world Mr Trump will bring back.

These 60s-style vibrations capture the profound change brought about by his re-election. In 2016 some people comforted themselves with the thought that Mr Trump’s presidency was an aberration. By choosing to overlook his attempts to stop the transfer of power to Mr Biden in 2020, voters have shown how wrong that conclusion was. Instead they have not only embraced Mr Trump’s promise to sort out the economy and immigration. They have also endorsed his unbounded exploitation of partisanship as the basis of his politics, including the slander of his opponents as corrupt and treacherous. This has spread a cynicism and despair about the merits of government that may serve the 47th president, but will not serve America’s democracy.

This is a powerful image, but it leads away from our leader’s central theme—that the world created by benign internationalists who occupied the White House for 70 years has been shattered.

This was more like it. The stacked Trumps say that his approach to politics and to America’s place in the world is here to stay. But it, too, lacked the acclamation we had just witnessed. So for our final cover we put a bust of Mr Trump above an adoring crowd. It is almost as if he were an emperor.

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