原味人文风情：It's been a busy year, but I found time to read a number of great books. Here's a few I think you might enjoy.
今年是很忙碌的一年，但我抽空看了一些很棒的书。这里有几本我觉得你可能会喜欢。
Evicted by Matthew Desmond. It's a brilliant book in terms of a sense of the chaos when you get evicted and they put your stuff out on the curb. The intertangled issues of mental health, drug abuse, it made me wanna really understand the various government programs a lot better.You get a really good picture of how it's a very tough life.
马修·德斯蒙德的《被驱逐者》。当你被赶出去然后东西被扔到路边时，对于那种混乱感的描述，这本书十分匠心独具。错综复杂的心理健康、毒品滥用问题，它让我想真正更深入地了解政府的各种计划。你可以清楚认识到那是怎样艰苦的生活。
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It's a book about the Vietnam War. And he writes about this extremely conflicted person who works for the Vietnamese army but is a Communist agent. There's this person who is a traitor and a murderer, and, you know, the whole messiness and futility is represented by the main character. It's a very sad story.
阮越清的《同情者》。这是本关于越战的书。作者写了一位矛盾极为冲突的人物，他替越军效力，但又是个共谍。他既是叛徒又是杀人凶手的人物，所有混乱失序和失败都透过主角呈现出来。这是个非常悲伤的故事。
I also read The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. It's a very quick read. She does a good job of trying to be a good daughter and a good mother, trying to understand her parents and what went through, and sort of appreciate the turmoil that the last three generations that lived in Vietnam went through.
我还看了Thi Bui的《我们能做到最好的》。这本书很快就能读完。她是个称职的女儿和母亲，试着了解她的父母和他们的经历，然后在某种程度上去体会住在越南的祖先三代遭遇过的动荡。
Next is Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil.It's a sweeping explanation of human progress through the lens of energy. You can't have civilization without energy. You know, we went from hunter-gatherer to agriculture to the Industrial Age. Taking you through that whole progression...it's definitely a masterpiece.
下一本是瓦茨拉夫·斯米尔的《能源和文明》。这本书从能源角度针对人类进展作出全面的解释。没有能源就没有文明。你知道，我们从狩猎采集变成农业，再进到工业时代。它带你走过那整段进展...这绝对是杰作。
Finally, Believe Me by Eddie Izzard. If you've seen Eddie's stuff and you like it, you should read the book. He's very humble. He had 10 years as a street performer with essentially no success, but he slowly but surely got slightly better and learned different things. And so, in terms of ability to learn things and see clever connections, he's just a genius guy.
最后，艾迪·伊扎德的《相信我》。如果你有看过艾迪的作品然后很喜欢的话，你就应该读这本书。他很谦虚。他有过十年当街头艺人但苦无成就的经历，不过他缓慢却稳定地成长，并学到许多不同的事物。因此，在学习事物和看见之间巧妙联结的这种能力上，他是个天赋异禀的人。
So, those are some of my favorites. I hope you find them as compelling as I did.
那么，那些就是其中几本我很喜欢的书。希望你们会和我一样觉得这些书很吸引人。
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