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2019.04.22

週一 Monday

cynical /'sɪnɪkl/ 

adj. 憤世嫉俗的

There's a pervasive line of thinking, especially in 2019, that says the people and things we love will eventually let us down.

人們普遍認爲，尤其是在2019年，我們所愛的人和事最終都會讓我們失望。

It's never an if, always a when. So our heroes will inevitably turn out to be trash monsters. 

永遠不是“是否”的問題，而是“何時”的問題。所以我們的英雄不可避免地會淪落爲垃圾怪物。

Our favorite bands will enter an experimental phase, even though no one asked them to. And our favorite TV shows will fail not only to reach greater heights, but they won't even come close to the same level of success they once had. 

儘管沒人要求，我們最喜歡的樂隊將進入試驗階段。我們最喜歡的電視節目不僅不能達到更高的高度，甚至達不到他們曾經擁有的成功水平。

And it was with this cynical mentality that I approached the second season of 2018's breakout hit Killing Eve.

帶着這種憤世嫉俗的心態，我去看了2018年大熱劇集《殺死伊芙》的第二季。

How could a series that was so well written, so well acted, and so fiercely addictive in its freshman season possibly maintain the same level of quality in Season 2, especially since Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who developed the series for TV and wrote four of the first season's eight episodes, wasn't involved in the writing of the second? It seemed like an impossible task.

寫得這麼好、演得這麼好、這麼讓人上癮的劇，第二季怎麼可能做到和第一季一樣高質量，特別是因爲菲比·沃勒-布里奇寫了第一季八集裏的四集，而她又不參與第二季劇本的創作，怎麼可能呢？這似乎不可能啊。

But then a strange thing happened: Killing Eve's second season, at least the two episodes screened in advance for critics, didn't let me down. 

但奇怪的事出現了：《殺死伊芙》第二季沒有讓我失望，至少已經播出的這兩集沒。

In fact, I was immediately transfixed by the second season, which kicks off Sunday and picks up just a brisk 30 seconds after the surprising events of the Season 1 finale. 

事實上，我是立刻被第二季驚呆了。第二季於週日開播，在第一季大結局令人驚訝的30秒後，第二季就開始了。

The new episodes, brimming with crackling electricity, elicited the same amount of joy I experienced when I watched Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) dance around each other during the first go round, only this time the stakes were considerably higher.

新出的幾集充滿了電光火花，和我第一次看到Eve (Sandra Oh飾)和Villanelle (Jodie Comer飾)在一起跳舞的時候一樣讓我開心，只是這次驚險刺激得多。

今日詞彙

cynical /'sɪnɪkl/ 

adj. 憤世嫉俗的

沒有哪個詞比 cynical更能精準描述鍵盤俠了吧。在遭遇噴子或是愛持懷疑態度的人時，正確的操作是：

Do you have to be so cynical about everything? 

你一定要這樣憤世嫉俗/悲觀嗎？

講完這一句後迅速遠離負能量場。