CNN
——世界寫給2016年的信

繪◎馬豆子

CNN
——世界寫給2016年的信

繪◎馬豆子

CNN——The World's Letter to 2016

Dear 2016,

Pack your bags; we're done. It was one disappointment①disappointed 英 [d?s?'p??nt?d] 美 ['d?s?'p??nt?d] adj. 失望的，沮喪的；受挫折的after another with you. Just how bad were you? Let us count the ways.

You just took and took and took, 2016

You took Prince, Bowie, Cohen.

You took Pat Conroy and Harper Lee. Muhammed Ali and Arnold Palmer.

John Glenn lived enough life for three people as a history-making astronaut②astronaut 英 ['?str?n??t] 美 ['?str?'n?t] n. 宇航員，航天員；太空旅行者 ;, presidential candidate and US senator. You took him too.

You dished out③dish out 給予，分發a lot of misery It's impossible to candy-coat it, 2016. When it came to dish out misery④misery 英 ['m?z(?)r?] 美 ['m?z?ri]n. 痛苦，悲慘；不幸；苦惱；窮困, you went full-throttle.

You forced thousands from their homes with historic flooding in Europe, in North Korea and in Louisiana—the worst in the US since Hurricane Sandy.

You created Haiti's worst humanitarian⑤humanitarian 英 [hj?,m?n?'te?r??n]美 [hju,m?n?'t?r??n] adj. 人道主義的crisis this decade with Hurricane Matthew. And Ecuador still hasn't recovered from the quake in April that killed more than 600.

You brought trouble to the skies too

In May, everyone aboard an Egypt Air plane died when it crashed into the Mediterranean. We still don't know why.

In November, a jet carrying a Brazilian soccer team crashed in Colombia, killing 71. As if all that isn't enough. You broke the record for the hottest months ever.

You tore⑥us apart, 2016

We're glad the elections are over, but the wounds you inflicted will take a long time to heal.親愛的2016：

收拾行裝，該結束了。和你一起的日子，失望接踵而至。你究竟多糟糕？讓我來數一數。

你帶走一個，又一個，再一個，2016

你帶走了“王子”、鮑威和科恩。

你帶走了派特·康洛伊和哈珀·李。帶走拳王阿里和阿諾德·帕爾默。

約翰·格蘭是創造歷史的宇航員、總統候選人和參議員，他經歷了三種人生，你也把他帶走。

你造成諸多痛苦

我實在沒辦法美化你，2016。說到痛苦，你才當仁不讓。

你給歐洲、朝鮮和路易斯安那州帶來史無前例的洪水，迫使成千上萬人離開家園，后者是自桑迪颶風以來美國最嚴重的洪澇災害。

颶風馬修給海地造成10年來最嚴重的人道主義危機。厄瓜多爾還未從4月的地震中緩過神來，地震導致600多人死亡。

你還給天空制造麻煩

5月，埃及航空一家航班墜毀地中海，機上所有人殞命，至今仍原因不明。

11月，一架載著巴西足球隊的噴氣式飛機在哥倫比亞墜毀，71人喪生。如果這還不夠，你還帶來史上最熱的夏季。

Republican Donald Trump won the electoral college and the White House. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. And America's torn in half and uncertain of the path ahead. Britain's no better with Brexit.

But hey 2016, we'll give you this

You get props for getting some things right, like the brightest supermoon since 1948. The first Word Series win for the Cubs in 108 years. And you did a solid for the McDonald family whose conjoined twins were successfully separated after a 27-hour surgery.

You gave us some muchneeded laughter from Chewbacca Mom and two joyful weeks of Olympic thrills⑦thrill 英 [θr?l] 美 [θr?l] n. 激動；震顫；緊張, including the US "Final Five" gymnasts⑧gymnast 英 ['d??mn?st] 美 ['d??mn?st] n. 體操運動員.

Oh, and during your watch, the US unemployment rate sank to 4.6% — the lowest in 10 years.

So yeah, you were better than, say, the year the bubonic plague took hold in Europe, eventually killing a third of the population. But that was 1348. The best part of you, 2016, is December 31 — the day you slink out of town.

Let's hope 2017 is as good as you were bad.

Sincerely, The world.

你把我們撕裂，2016

我們很高興選舉結束了，可撕裂的傷口需要更久才能愈合。

共和黨人唐納德·特朗普贏了選舉人票，入主白宮，而民主黨人希拉里贏得了選民。美國被一撕兩半，前路尚不明朗。退歐后的英國也半斤八兩。

你也做了些好事

你帶來1948年以來最明亮的超級月亮。芝加哥小熊隊108年來首次奪冠。你給麥當勞家帶來福氣，經過27小時的手術，他們的連體嬰兒成功分離。

《星球大戰》里的楚巴卡和為期兩周的奧運會給我們帶來期待已久的笑聲，尤其是美國體操五人組的精湛表演。

對了，就在你看電影時，美國失業率降到4.6%，創10年來最低。

沒錯，你比黑死病橫行歐洲那年要好，那場瘟疫殺死三分之一的人口，可那是1348年。

2016，你最好的一天是12月31日，終于把你送走了。

讓我們希望2017年精彩，反襯你的糟糕。

此致

敬禮

世界

⑥tore 英 [t??(r)] 美 [t?r] vt. 撕開（tear的過去式）