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2018年似乎是悲傷的一年：天災人禍時有發生，而我們也告別了不少傳奇大師。盡管有不少壞消息，但Google所發布的2018年度搜尋詞讓人們相信，美好依然存在……
Looking back over 2018 it might be better not to speak of 「ups and downs」, but of 「downs and downs」. The year seems to have been one piece of bad news after another.
回顧2018年，和「起起伏伏」相比，或許用「持續低落」來形容這一年更為貼切。今年似乎不斷有壞消息傳來。
It had terrible disasters – two were Typhoon Mangkhut, which brought widespread damage to multiple countries this summer, and the wildfire in California, the deadliest in the state’s history, which took at least 85 lives.
可怕的災難—— 比如，台風「山竹」今夏肆虐，給多個國家造成了破壞，而加州則發生了美國歷史上最具破壞性的山火，導致至少85人喪生。
In 2018 we also lost some of the top minds of humanity, including UK physicist Stephen Hawking, Chinese kung fu fiction writer Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known as Jin Yong, and Stan Lee, the US comic book writer who created the Marvel universe.
我們也在2018年告別了一些傳奇人物，如英國物理學家史蒂芬·霍金，中國武俠小說作家金庸（原名查良鏞）以及漫威宇宙創始人、美國漫畫家斯坦·李。
This is why it comes as a warm surprise that, according to Google’s 「Year In Search 2018」, people spent a lot of time searching for the 「good」 on the internet. According to the video, which was released on Dec 12, people wanted to find answers to questions like 「how to be a good friend」.
因此，當Google發布2018年度搜尋詞時，人們發現了一個暖心的驚喜：大家都花了不少時間，在網上搜尋「好事」(good)。在Google12月12日發布的視頻中，人們想要找出諸如「如何成為一個好朋友」等問題的答案。
In the video, we see the moment when a deaf child hears his mother’s voice for the very first time. We see footage of the Thailand boy soccer players after they were rescued from a flooded cave with the help of volunteering divers from all over the world. And we see scenes from Crazy Rich Asians, a rare US movie with an all-Asian cast.
視頻中，我們看到了失聰的孩子第一次聽到自己母親聲音時的那一刻；我們看到了被困溶洞的泰國足球少年在來自世界各地的潛水救援人員的幫助下脫困的鏡頭；我們還看到了電影《摘金奇緣》的場景，這部美國電影罕見地啟用了全亞裔演員陣容。
「On an everyday basis, we seem to miss all the good in the world,」 wrote reporter Raka Mukherjee on News 18. 「The video shows us how, even in times of adversity, there is good – if only one makes the effort to look for it.」
「在日常生活中，我們似乎錯過了世界上的一切美好，」記者Raka Mukherjee在News 18網站上寫道。「這段視頻告訴我們，即便身處逆境，美好的事物依然存在 —— 只要你努力去尋找。」
So, it may be true that the past year was full of 「down」 moments. But it doesn’t mean that we’re letting it bring us down with it. As is said in the video, 「The world is filled with people trying to do the best they can.」
所以，過去一年或許的確有很多「不如意」。但這並不意味著我們會被擊垮。正如視頻中所說的那樣：「世界上到處都有全力以赴的人。」
In 2018, the world was miserable. But we did good.
2018年的世界有些悲傷。但我們都做得很好。
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