评论
打印
From the Editor
主编寄语
By Edward Felsenthal
文/爱德华·费森塔尔
My 11-year-old daughter often asks me, tauntingly, what things were like "in the 20th century."
我11岁的女儿经常问我，以嘲讽的语气问我，“20世纪”是什么样。
Things are moving her way.
时代正在朝她靠近。
It's a sign of just how quickly the globe's generational shift is occurring
整个世界的代际转变已经步入快轨，
that when Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, 34, became the world's youngest head of government on Dec. 10,
当地时间12月10日，34岁的桑娜·马林就任芬兰总理一职，成为了世界上最年轻的政府首脑，
she lost that distinction almost immediately.
没过多久，她便失去了这一殊荣。这便是代际转变步入快轨的一大征兆。
A mere 28 days later, Sebastian Kurz, 33, became Austria's Chancellor.
马林上任仅28天后，年仅33岁的塞巴斯蒂安·库尔茨便当选奥地利总理。
Kurz, who had an earlier stint in the same job, regained the role via a coalition with the Green Party,
在那之前，库尔茨已经当选过一次总理，这一次，在绿党的帮助下，他重新夺回了这一职位，
whose support surged in the latest election—a result, many said,
绿党在此次选举中的支持率出现了大幅飙升——不少人表示，
of the work of teen climate activist (and TIME 2019 Person of the Year) Greta Thunberg.
这一结果实则是青少年气候活动家(《时代》周刊2019年度人物)格蕾塔·桑伯格促成的。
"A specter is striding through Europe," read an editorial in Austria's right-leaning Die Presse.
“一个幽灵正大步流星地穿行在欧洲大陆上，”奥地利右翼报纸《新闻报》的一篇社论写道。
"Its name is the ‘Greta effect.'"
“这个幽灵的名字叫‘格蕾塔效应’。”
The global under-30 population has been rising since 2012
自2012年以来，世界范围内30岁以下的人口一直在增长，
and today accounts for more than half of the 7.5 billion people on the planet.
如今，已经占到了全世界75亿人口的一半以上。
What will the world look like when this new generation leads?
当他们这一代成为世界的主宰后，世界会是什么样？
That's the central theme of this week's cover story—
本周《时代》周刊的封面故事——
adapted from TIME national correspondent Charlotte Alter's new book, The Ones We've Been Waiting For—
取材于《时代》周刊国家通讯员夏洛特·奥尔特的新书《我们一直等待的人》——
and the accompanying special section.
以及本期的特别版围绕的都是这一主题。
As youth the world over force us to confront the perils of inaction—
随着全世界的年轻一代迫使我们直面不作为的危险——
and show us the possibilities from recognizing that life doesn't have to be as it is—
同时也给我们展示了认识到生活并非只有眼前这一种可能蕴含的希望——
we are beginning to see some answers.
部分答案便开始浮现在我们眼前。
译文由可可原创，仅供学习交流使用，未经许可请勿转载。
