翻译：What Girls are Good For: Happy birthday Nellie Bly!

2015年5月5日，Google在首页放上了Doodle，以纪念Nellie Bly的151岁诞辰。我尝试着对那段说明文字进行了翻译。

原文如下：

What Girls are Good For: Happy birthday Nellie Bly!

googleblog.blogspot.com · by Google · May 4, 2015

In 1880, the Pittsburgh Dispatch published an article titled "What Girls Are Good For.” In dismissive terms, the column’s author wrote that women shouldn't be allowed to work because their place was at home.

Days later, a pseudonymous rebuttal appeared in the paper. The response, by a 16-year-old girl whose real name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, argued how important it was for women to be independent and self-reliant. Within a decade, the author of that response would become known worldwide as Nellie Bly: a hard-hitting young journalist who went undercover at a lunatic asylum and traveled around the world in a record-breaking 72 days.

Throughout her life and career, Nellie Bly spoke up for the underprivileged, the helpless and minorities, and defied society’s expectations for women. We love her adventurous spirit, and we share her belief that women can do anything and be anything they want (we like to think if she were around today she’d be a fellow fan of trailblazing women like Ada, Anita and Ann). So when it came time to honor Nellie with a Doodle, we wanted to make it special. Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs wrote, composed and recorded an original song about Nellie, and Katy Wu, the artist who created this doodle, created an animation set to Karen O’s music celebrating this intrepid investigative reporter.

Nellie was born on May 5, 1864 in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa. After her response was published in the Dispatch in 1880, the editor, George Madden, tracked her down and hired her as a reporter. At the time, women reporters commonly used pen names; hers came from a song by fellow Pittsburgher Stephen Foster. She spent several years at the paper before moving to New York for a job at New York World, which was owned by Joseph Pulitzer. In 1887, she went undercover at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island to write an exposé about the conditions there. Her resulting book, “Ten Days in a Mad-House,” made her famous.

But Nellie is best known for her trip around the world. Inspired by Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne’s novel, “Around the World in 80 Days,” Nellie set sail from New York in November 1889 determined to beat Fogg’s time. Traveling by steamships and sailboats, she sent dispatches back to her newspaper as she circled the globe. Instead of sitting idly and just observing, she was always a part of the action and conversation, despite the fact that public spaces were typically reserved for men at the time.

Storyboard for today's Nellie Bly video doodle, by Katy Wu

When creating the Doodle, we took inspiration from Karen O’s lyrics and Nellie’s journey around the globe. Throughout the video, Katy used newspaper as a unifying theme—with paper tearing, folding and crumpling as the story goes along. And though the video is mostly black and white, she added some color to represent Nellie's energy and vibrancy.

Back in the 19th century, Nellie fearlessly showed a generation of people “what girls are good for.” We’re excited to tell her story in today’s Doodle—and we hope Nellie inspires women and girls everywhere to follow in her footsteps and show the world what they can do.

Posted by Liat Ben-Rafael, Program Manager, Google Doodles

googleblog.blogspot.com · by Google · May 4, 2015

我的翻译：

女孩能做好什么：Nellie Bly生日快乐！

1880年Pittsburgh Dispatch 刊登的一篇文章标题是：什么是女孩擅长做的？以一种不屑一顾的口吻，该专栏作家表示不应该让女性去工作，因为家庭才是女人的归属。数天后，报纸上出现了一篇针对此文的匿名驳斥文章。这篇回应的作者是一名16岁的真名叫做 Elizabeth Jane Cochran的女孩，在文中她辩解了独立自主和自力更生对女性是多么的重要。不到10年，这位作者以Nellie Bly的名字知名于世，作为一名年轻而毫不妥协的记者，她去精神病院做卧底，并且以破纪录的72天完成了环游世界。

穷其一生，Nellie Bly都在为替弱势的、无助的和少数群体说话，抗拒社会对女性的陈见。我们喜欢她的冒险精神，也对她的信念深信不疑，即女性能够做任何她们想做的事，能够成为任何她们想要成为的人(我们相信如果活在今天，她一定会是Ada、Anita和Ann等时代先驱式女性的粉丝)。因此，当到了要用一个doodle来纪念Nellie的时候，我们想来点儿特别的。为纪念这位勇敢的调查记者，Yeah Yeah Yeahs成员之一Karen O作词作曲并录制了一首关于Nellie的原创歌曲，艺术师Katy Wu设计了纪念doodle，并为Karen O的音乐配合了一组动画。

Nellie于1864年5月5日出生在宾西法尼亚州匹兹堡市郊。1880年在她的回应文章发表在Dispatch上面后，当时的编辑George Madden找到她并将她凭请为一名记者。那个时候，女性记者同时会使用笔名，她的笔名源自一首匹兹堡人Stephen Foster创作的歌曲。她在这个报社待了几年，之后便去了纽约，在由Joseph Pilitzer所有的New York World工作。1887年，她卧底进入一家位于Blackwell’s Island妇女精神病院，以曝光那里的真实状况。之后她写成了《疯人院里的十天》，并由此出名。

但Nellie最为著名的是她的环球旅行。受Jules Verne的小说《80天环游世界》里的主人公Phileas Fogg的鼓舞，Nellie在1889年11月从纽约起航，决心挑战Fogg的记录。她依靠蒸汽船和帆船进行环球航行，并在过程中向报社发送通讯稿。她并不是无所事事地坐着或者仅仅去观察，她经常参与到行动或谈话中去，尽管那个时候的事实是，公共场所通常只属于男性。

由Katy Wu创作的今日Nellie Bly视频doodle故事板

当创作这个doodle的时候，我们从Karen O的歌词和Nellie的环球旅行中获取灵感。整个视频中，Katy以报纸作为统一的主题，通过撕开、折叠和压皱报纸推进故事。尽管这个视频主要是黑白的，她添加了一些颜色以表现Nellie的能量和活力。回到19世纪，Nellie勇敢地向一代人显示了“什么是女性擅长做的”。通过今天的doodle讲述她的故事我们感到很激动，我们也希望Nellie能够激励所有的妇女和女孩追随她的足迹，向世界展示出她们的成就。