讀《FT·金融時報(bào)》學(xué)英語：《二手時間》

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Catherine Merridale
Author of Lenin on the Train
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Second-Hand Time, by Svetlana Alexievich (Fitzcarraldo/Random House), was certainly the year's most harrowing read.The voices she assembled were all different, yet somehow she drew their testimonies about life in the old Soviet Union into a coherent, symphonic whole.
斯維特蘭娜·阿列克謝維奇的《二手時間》是本年最為虐心的讀物。她收集了一些全然不同的聲音，卻又將這些有關(guān)前蘇聯(lián)生活的聽聞?wù)纤茉斐梢粋€連貫、和諧的整體。

Listening to accounts of mass-murder and betrayal is not easy—the printed pages reek of bitterness and rage—yet there is something gracious in Alexievich's prose; she helps us to avoid the obvious mistake of judging anyone.Her book left me with nightmares, but it opened windows on a time and culture that few foreigners can know.
聽大屠殺和背叛的故事并不容易——書頁間往往彌漫著苦難和憤怒——不過阿列克謝維奇的散文卻散發(fā)著雅致。她帶著我們避免了妄自批判某些人的誤區(qū)。她的書留給我噩夢，但是卻為對那段時光和文化鮮有所知的外國人開了一扇窗。