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这篇文章来自彭博推送，商业周刊年度最佳 10 本阅读之书。推送主要由 百度翻译 完成翻译工作，Jingyi 会作微调。
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以下是一位品尝过879种啤酒的男士的11种年度最佳啤酒。
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关于2023年，我们能说些什么？
已经一年了。有高（抵押贷款利率）也有低（埃隆·马斯克在其更名平台上的行为），在这期间，《商业周刊》发表了一些精彩的报道。对许多人来说，本周是一个很好的时机，在我们深入到看起来已经很狂野的2024年之前，我们可以先了解一下。以下是我们2023年阅读量最高的前十名：
1.Kit Chellel 的《打败轮盘赌的赌徒》（书名号 The Gambler Who Beat Roulette 书名号）
这是一个有着令人难以置信的前提的故事：一窥那些想出了如何打破赌场专家认为牢不可破的东西的人，即轮盘赌游戏。从2004年伦敦的一个春夜开始，进入数学和工程领域，这个故事既是一场激动人心的狂欢，也是一场关于房间里的风扇如何潜在地改变球的轨迹等问题的教育。
incredible premise 令人难以置信的前提
roulette 轮盘赌
a both rousing caper and an education on ... 既是一场令人心动狂欢，也是一场关于……的教育
rousing caper 上升的跳跃，欢呼雀跃
a glimpse into 瞥了一眼
trajectory 轨迹
alter the trajectory of 改变……的轨迹
2.Ashlee Vance的《如何以每年仅200万美元的价格再次年满18岁》
（How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year）
当你得知一个叫 Bryan Johnson 的人时，你在哪里？可能是去年1月，Vance 在你的办公桌上写了一篇关于这位痴迷于年轻人的古怪科技百万富翁的故事。来看看那些奇怪的牛肉饼照片。坚持科学方法，避免使你的身体器官衰老。 ShoelessCai 评注，此前素闻，某科技百万富翁狂吃纤维以保持年轻。
fixated with youth 迷恋青春
fixated with 执着于
a story on the eccentric tech millionaire 一个古怪的科技百万富翁的故事
3.《当戴夫·查佩尔买下你的小镇时会发生什么》（What Happens When Dave Chappelle Buys Up Your Town），作者：Tyler·J·Kelley
喜剧演员 Chappell 以来自俄亥俄州黄泉小镇而自豪。但你有没有和他的邻居谈论过查佩尔驱动的所有开发是如何进行的？这就是《商业周刊》在这个故事中所做的，结果令人着迷：一个人认为是礼物（也可能翻译成天赋）的东西可能看起来像是一种义务，甚至更糟。
small town of Yellow Springs 黄泉小镇
how of the development is playing out? 发展如何进行的?
4.瑞安·比恩和乔什·索尔的《比自由女神像还高的风力涡轮机正在倒塌》
（Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over）这真的是一个简单的问题：为什么这么多巨大的风电结构会倒塌？不，说真的，怎么回事？
ShoelessCai评注，这段翻译是纯吐槽吧？
5.Keith Naughton著，《税收漏洞使电动汽车租赁在美国成为无脑之物》，原著名称，A Tax Loophole Makes EV Leasing a No-Brainer in the US。
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6.假的肉本应拯救世界。《它变成了另一种时尚》（Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World），作者：Deena Shanker
多么精彩的第一段：
自从2009年创立Beyond Meat股份有限公司，提出了在没有动物的情况下制作肉类的神奇想法以来，伊桑·布朗一直在发表相当于一场超长TED演讲的演讲。2013年，他在《连线商业》会议上上台解释说，世界上存在着一个非常真实的温室气体排放肉类问题，风险投资家投资假肉可能比投资太阳能产生更大的影响。三年后，在多伦多举行的年度理想聚会上，他表示自己的目标是复制“肉类蓝图”。当他出席高盛集团股份有限公司2019年建筑商与创新者峰会时，他解释说，他的使命要求美国为第二次世界大战召集的紧迫性和规模，他的产品将同时帮助解决心脏病、糖尿病、癌症，气候变化、自然资源枯竭和动物福利。正如技术使马车过时一样，他在今年秋天的《纽约时报》气候会议上告诉观众，他的分解植物的系统也会改变盘子中心的蛋白质。他说：“我觉得这是不可避免的。”
遗憾的是，似乎并不是不可避免的。
ShoelessCai评注，这句话的意思，应该是，这个人的理论系统在于，将相应环境中合成蛋白质的过程破坏掉 —— 这个人的理论核心。这句话依据治疗糖尿病推断。
greenhouse gas-emmiting meat problem 温室气体排放肉类问题
Ideacity 理想聚会
mustered for 召集干什么事情
EG: The troops were mustered for an attack.
had rendered the horse-drawn carriage obsolete 使得马车过时了
render something obsolete 使得……过时
render 递交，表达，给予
7.阿什利·万斯（Ashlee Vance）的《一个每年花200万美元让自己看起来18岁的男人正在与父亲和儿子交换鲜血》（The Man Who Spends $2 Million a Year to Look 18 Is Swapping Blood With His Father and Son）
你永远不会相信 Johnson 接下来会做什么 ……
8.Anna Edney、Susan Berfield、Jef Feeley 合著《Zantac的制造者对癌症风险保持沉默40年》（Zantac’s Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years）
处方药Zantac长期以来一直是世界上最成功的药物万神殿的一部分。它为其母公司葛兰素史克实验室（Glaxo Laboratories）创造巨额财富，1978年该药物获得专利时被称为葛兰素史科实验室。但Zantac在2020年因其致癌特性而被下架，正如《商业周刊》的调查所表明的那样，这些信息被掩盖了多年 —— 已有7万多人起诉该公司。
parent company 母公司
something was pulled off the shelves 某些商品被下架
cancer-causing properties 致癌性
9.爱彼迎梦想破灭了吗？（Is the Airbnb Dream Dead?）。作者 Natalie Lung 和 Jesse Levine
任何人都可以把额外的房间变成收入机会，这一想法推动了Airbnb房东的第一波浪潮——在那之后，围绕在线平台出现了整个经济。世界在各方面发生了变化，具体来说，城市以及周边地区，各自制订了规则，抑制猖獗的短租市场，随着按揭贷款利率上升（ShoelessCai评注，至少在美国市场，房屋买卖市场，其实是上升，于此同时，各个地区又希望能降低短租市场热度。在这个过程，谁是因谁是果是不知道的 —— 留个小疑问 ），从根本上改变了潜在购房者（和卖家）的数学逻辑。我们与全国各地的Airbnb房东讨论了业务进展情况。
the world changed, in a variety ways 世界变了，以各种形态
discourage rampant short-term rentals 抑制了短租市场的猖獗
10.克里斯·波默斯基的《德克萨斯传教士2400万美元庞氏骗局》（The Texas Preacher’s $24 Million Ponzi Scheme）
当你从一个自称是上帝的人那里得到投资建议时，会发生什么？在这种情况下，没有什么好的。
purports to be a man of God 自称是上帝的人
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Must-Reads
Quantum computing is here. But, uh, what is it?
Here are 11 of the year’s best beers, from a guy who tasted 879.
Why one couple drove 30 extra miles to deliver a baby at a less-expensive hospital.
What can we say about 2023? It’s been a year. There were highs (mortgage rates, amirite?) and lows (Elon Musk’s behavior on his renamed platform) and in between Businessweek published some great stories. This week, for many people, is a good time to get caught up before we dive into what looks to be an already-wild 2024. So here are our top 10 most-read of 2023:
1. The Gambler Who Beat Roulette, by Kit Chellel
It was a story with an incredible premise: a glimpse into the people who had figured out how to break what casino experts viewed as unbreakable, namely, the game of roulette. Starting with a spring night in London in 2004, and going into areas of mathematics and engineering, the story is both a rousing caper and an education on things such as how a fan in a room could potentially alter the trajectory of a ball.
2. How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year, by Ashlee Vance
Where were you when you learned of a man named Bryan Johnson? Probably at your desk last January, when Vance dropped a story on the eccentric tech millionaire who is fixated with youth. Come for the weird beefcake pictures. Stay for the science (or “science,” depending on who you ask) of de-aging the organs in your body.
3. What Happens When Dave Chappelle Buys Up Your Town, by Tyler J. Kelley
The comedian Chappell is famously proud of being from the small town of Yellow Springs, Ohio. But have you talked to his neighbors about how all of the Chappell-driven development is playing out? That’s what Businessweek did in this story, with fascinating results: What one person thinks of as a gift can seem like an obligation, or worse.
4. Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over, by Ryan Beene and Josh Saul
It’s a simple question, really: Why are so many giant wind power structures toppling over? No, seriously, what’s going on?
5. A Tax Loophole Makes EV Leasing a No-Brainer in the US, by Keith Naughton
File this under “news you can use.”
6. Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just Another Fad, by Deena Shanker
What a first paragraph:
Ever since founding Beyond Meat Inc. in 2009 with the then fantastical idea of making meat without animals, Ethan Brown has been giving the equivalent of one extremely long TED Talk. In 2013 he took the stage at the Wired Business conference, explaining that the world had a very real greenhouse gas-emitting meat problem and that venture capitalists could make a bigger impact investing in fake meat than in solar energy. At Toronto’s annual Ideacity gathering three years later, he said his goal was to replicate the “blueprint of meat.” By the time he appeared at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Builders & Innovators Summit 2019, he explained that his mission demanded the urgency and scale the US mustered for World War II and that his products would simultaneously help solve heart disease, diabetes, cancer, climate change, natural resource depletion and animal welfare. Just like technology had rendered the horse-drawn carriage obsolete, he told the crowd at the New York Times’ climate conference this past fall, so, too, would his system of breaking down plants transform the protein at the center of the plate. “This,” he said, “is something that I feel is inevitable.”
Sadly, maybe not inevitable.
7. The Man Who Spends $2 Million a Year to Look 18 Is Swapping Blood With His Father and Son, by Ashlee Vance
You’ll never believe what Johnson does next ……
8. Zantac’s Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years, by Anna Edney, Susan Berfield, and Jef Feeley
The prescription drug Zantac was long part of the pantheon of the world’s most successful pharmaceuticals. It made a fortune for its parent company, Glaxo Laboratories, as it was called when the drug was patented in 1978. But Zantac was pulled off the shelves in 2020 because of its cancer-causing properties—and as this Businessweek investigation makes clear, that information was buried for years. More than 70,000 people have sued the company.
9. Is the Airbnb Dream Dead?, by Natalie Lung and Jesse Levine
The idea that anyone could turn an extra room into an income opportunity drove the first wave of Airbnb hosts—and after that, a whole economy emerged around the online platform. But the world changed, in a variety of ways, namely as towns and cities enacted rules designed to discourage rampant short-term rentals and as mortgage rates skyrocketed, radically changing the math for potential homebuyers (and sellers). We talked to Airbnb hosts all over the country about how business was going.
10. The Texas Preacher’s $24 Million Ponzi Scheme, by Chris Pomorski
What happens when you get investment advice from someone who purports to be a man of God? In this case, nothing good, at all.
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