Maryam and her best friend were ambling(漫步，缓行) through Magdeburg toward the railway station, talking over the dramatic events of the previous evening and the surge(激增，飙升) by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland to a historically high vote in the Saxony-Anhalt(萨克森-安哈尔特州，德国东部州) elections.
玛丽亚姆和最好的朋友正漫步穿过马格德堡，朝火车站走去，一边聊着前一晚的戏剧性事件，以及极右翼政党德国选择党在萨克森-安哈尔特州选举中得票飙升至历史新高的情况。
“Don’t laugh at me,” she said, “but I wish we could go back to the days of Angela Merkel(安格拉·默克尔，德国前总理), when things were OK in Germany”.
“别笑我，”她说，“但我真希望我们能回到安格拉·默克尔的时代，那时德国一切都还好。”
The teenagers, from nearby Wolmirstedt, said they were shocked by the AfD’s landslide(压倒性胜利) win. But they felt powerless to do much about it(无力改变) and felt afraid about where it might take their home state.
这两名来自附近沃尔米尔施泰特的青少年说，他们对选择党的压倒性胜利感到震惊。但他们感到无力改变什么，也害怕这会把他们的家乡州带向何方。