HBO’s Girls is coming back, Lena Dunham and her fellow cast members announced this week, and the internet is already abuzz(议论纷纷). Women of a certain age(某个年龄段的女性), myself included – approaching, turning or having turned 40 – are genuinely thrilled, if also slightly trepidatious(忐忑不安的). When you’ve loved, loathed and most importantly grown with(与……一同成长) characters in the way many of us did with Girls, you feel protective of a show’s legacy. But with Dunham, I’m confident it is in good hands(得到妥善照料).
HBO的《都市女孩》要回归了，莉娜·邓纳姆和同剧演员本周宣布了这一消息，网络上已经议论纷纷。某个特定年龄段的女性——包括我自己，正在逼近、正要迈入或已经迈过四十岁——是真心兴奋的，尽管也隐隐有些忐忑。当你像我们许多人对待《都市女孩》那样，爱过、厌过、最重要的是与剧中人物一同成长，你就会想要守护一部剧留下的遗产。但交给邓纳姆，我确信它会被妥善对待。
Girls means a lot to me, in part because it was the topic of my first ever column for this newspaper: in 2012, shortly after the show premiered(首播), it was already generating a bananas amount of(海量的) internet discourse(网络讨论) and I was on work experience(在做实习). I was in my early 20s and not long off the dole(刚领完失业救济). I didn’t share the privilege of Dunham’s characters, which is perhaps why I so enjoyed how she skewered(辛辣讽刺) it. (I never understood the criticism that the show was about spoilt rich girls. So many people missed the satire(讽刺).) Yet there were aspects of it that I related to, as I wrote at the time:
《都市女孩》对我意义重大，部分原因是它成了我为这家报纸写的第一篇专栏的题目：2012年，该剧首播后不久，就已经在网上引发海量讨论，而我当时还在做实习。我二十出头，刚领完失业救济不久。我并不享有邓纳姆笔下人物那样的优渥条件，这或许正是我如此欣赏她对其加以讽刺的原因。（我一直不理解那种批评，说这剧讲的是被宠坏的富家女。太多人没看出其中的讽刺。）但剧中有一些方面让我产生共鸣，正如我当时所写：
“The experiences of Dunham’s characters, where they languish(困顿、煎熬) in unpaid jobs and have emotionless, awkward sex in grotty(破旧肮脏的) flats with pretentious(自命不凡的) males, resonate(引起共鸣) … with my experience and that of my friends.”
“邓纳姆笔下人物的经历——她们困在无薪工作里，在肮脏的公寓里与自命不凡的男性发生毫无感情、尴尬的性关系——与我和我朋友的经历产生共鸣。”