2020年新冠疫情爆发，很多人陷入了黑暗的日子。
一年过后，TikTok上竟掀起了#怀念2020的热潮。
这合理吗？
The trend seemed to have reared its head as early as October 2020, when many were still adjusting to the new normal and But the nostalgia persisted, experiencing a revival in March (a year after initial lockdowns), and still pops up in corners of the internet today as people try to process complex emotions linked to pandemic life. Viral songs, in particular, have become wormholes for people to relive that time of their lives.
这股热潮最早在2020年10月份抬头，当时还有很多人在适应疫情下的新常态，并且担心疫情控制政策迟迟不放松。在疫情爆发的第二年的三月份，这一怀念热潮又掀起一波新讨论。当下，互联网的各个角落都可以看到人们试图梳理疫情期间的复杂情绪。尤其是当时的流行歌曲，它们作为一个虫洞，供人们回忆当时的生活。
译注：wormhole，虫洞是指宇宙中可能存在的连接两个不同时空的狭窄隧道，认为透过虫洞可以做瞬时的空间转移或者做时间旅行。
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怀念2020之声
Andy Koh 曾是一名生活在纽约的艺术总监。2020年初，他辞职后本打算春末搬到韩国首尔。然而疫情来袭，他被迫困于自己的公寓，度过了他人生中最黑暗的一段时光。
“The reality that my plans to move to Korea were upended hit pretty quickly and it sent me into a bit of a depressive spiral,” he said. “I lived in a tiny studio apartment and I spent most of the lockdown at home binging anime with my cat and endlessly scrolling on TikTok.”
他说："搬家到韩国的计划被疫情打乱，这对我打击很大，整个人陷入了抑郁状态。我蜗居在一个狭小的单间公寓里，居家隔离的大部分时间我都和我的猫一起狂看日漫，没完没了地刷TikTok。"
2021年11月份，他如愿以偿搬到了韩国首尔。入境人员需要集中隔离10天，这立刻让他想起了一年前在纽约公寓中居家隔离的情景。2019年他确诊躁郁症，2020年大部分时间他都在和自己的情绪作斗争。
Koh took to TikTok to share his mixed feelings. He posted a video of himself vibing with “Supalonely” by BENEE, featuring Gus Dapperton—the definitive anthem for the early days of the pandemic—and said that he was “still processing” March 2020.
Koh选择在TikTok上抒发这些复杂的情绪。他发布了一条自己听BENEE与Gus Dapperton合作热单《Supalonely》的视频，这首歌绝对是疫情之初的主题曲，并且在视频中说自己“还在消化”2020年三月份那段日子。
这条视频立刻引发了网友的共鸣，收获了700万浏览量以及160万赞。人们在评论区纷纷讲出自己在疫情期间的个人经历。
There were also plenty of suggestions for songs that could similarly trigger people’s lockdown memories. Koh eventually turned his viral video into a series titled “2020core,” which now has 15 videos and counting.
还有很多人提出了其他能引发对疫情居家怀念的歌曲。Koh最后将他走红的视频发展成了一个系列歌单，名叫"2020core"（"2020核心歌曲"），目前收录了15支歌，并且曲目还在增加。
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“美好”旧时光
It’s important to recognize that, in these wholesome trips down memory lane, our memories may often be distorted by a positive bias—studies have found that we’re more likely to retain and relive positive memories while forgetting negative ones.Things tend to appear better than they were, especially when we’re feeling nostalgic.
穿梭于时光的回忆中，我们必须意识到我们往往会因为积极性偏差而美化歪曲以往的经历。研究表明，我们更愿意记住美好回忆，忘却负面的记忆。事物在记忆中往往比实际上好，尤其是我们怀念情绪强烈的时候。
译注：positive bias，积极性偏差指个体在评价他人时，往往更多地对他人作出积极的、肯定的评价，也称“宽大效应”。
But Koh doesn’t think his experience with pandemic nostalgia is as simple as waxing poetic. For him, reminiscing about 2020 feels more like a way to make sense of his period of depression.
但Koh并不认为他对疫情时期的怀念仅仅是田园牧歌式的美化。对他来说，怀念2020更像是梳理自己那段黑暗抑郁的时期。
“It’s like, collectively, we all went through an insane period of human history together,” he said. “And people are still kind of processing their own trauma, while still being able to celebrate the good things that happened.”
他说：“新冠疫情已经可以载入史册，全体人类都一起度过了这一段疯狂的时期。大家都在消化自己经历的创伤，并且不忘庆祝当时的一些小确幸。”
Pim Korsten是一名荷兰FreedomLab智库的研究员，曾经研究过新冠疫情对情绪的影响。他给出了这样的解释：2020年上半年，大家的集体情绪都很特殊。全球大部分人都陷入悲伤和不确定性之中，但有些人也过上了更加积极的生活—他们不再被社交缠身，能花更多时间培养兴趣或陪伴家人。
“因此，再听疫情封城最严重时候流行的歌曲时，我们会想起这段酸甜苦辣交织的回忆，”Korsten说。
In September, The Atlantic reported that the pandemic might have engendered something called anticipatory nostalgia, described as “the feeling of missing the present before it has even passed.” Since people know that they’re in the middle of a big historical and cultural moment, they are actively documenting the milieu through the lens of how it would be remembered.
美国大西洋月刊九月份的报道称，疫情使人们产生了“先行怀旧”的情绪，简单来说就是“怀念还没有过去的日子“。人们知道自己正身处特殊的历史文化时刻，因此大家回味疫情之初的日子，积极地记录周围环境。
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这样真的好吗
怀念人类历史上的至暗时刻，真的好吗？
“Nostalgia in itself is not bad nor good, but about what you do with it,” Korsten said. When activated in a non-constructive way, nostalgia could encourage people to yearn for a condition that never was, or warp people’s impression of the past to romanticize it blindly while ignoring its negative aspects.
研究员Korsten说：“怀念本身是没有好坏之分的，但你如何看待这种情绪决定了一切。”当这种怀念没有什么建设性时，它会让人渴望那段只存在于记忆中的时光，或者歪曲人们对过去的记忆—— 盲目地夸大过去的美好，而对负面的记忆视而不见。
On the more constructive side, nostalgia can remind people of a certain moment, while keeping them open to absorbing new experiences. This seems to be the case for Koh, the TikToker, who sees hope amid his memories of 2020.
更有益的怀念能让人想起某个特定时刻，与此同时还能让人们敞开怀抱，迎接新生活。这似乎就是Koh对2020年的怀念，他在众多2020年回忆中看到了一线希望。
重点词汇：
binge: v. 放纵，大吃大喝
例句：The kids binged on ice-cream.
engender：v.产生，引起
例句：It helps engender a common humanity.
milieu：n.环境，周围
例句：They stayed within their own social milieu.
原文链接：
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vv84/tiktok-nostalgic-2020-pandemic-quarantine
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