《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书_BEC初级作文

《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书

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《无可见挫伤》

By Rachel Louise Snyder

雷切尔·路易斯·斯奈德著

Snyder’s thoroughly reported book covers what the World Health Organization has called “a global health problem of epidemic proportions.” In America alone, more than half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former partner; domestic violence cuts across lines of class, religion and race. Snyder debunks pervasive myths (restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change) and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. She doesn’t give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope.

斯奈德在书中详尽报道了世界卫生组织所称的“流行病式的全球健康问题”。仅在美国，半数以上被谋杀的女性是被现任或前任伴侣杀害的；家庭暴力不分阶级、宗教和种族。斯奈德揭露了普遍存在的迷思（限制令是答案，施虐者从不改变），并动情地描写了施暴者和受害者的生活（和死亡）。她没有给出简单的答案，而是提供了丰富的信息，这些信息本身就是一种希望。

debunk [diːˈbʌŋk]：vt.揭穿；拆穿…的假面具；暴露

《切尔诺贝利的午夜》

By Adam Higginbotham

亚当·希金博特姆著

Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller. Replete with vivid detail and sharply etched personalities, this narrative of astounding incompetence moves from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation, as it builds to the inevitable, history-changing disaster.