2019.01.11

周五 Friday

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v. 排除

One of the biggest surprises of this time's Grammy nominations announcement was the absence of Taylor Swift from the main categories, with the singer excluded from the record, song and album of the year races.

这次格莱美奖提名中最令人吃惊的地方应该就是Taylor Swift在主要奖项里的缺席了，这位歌手在最佳唱片、最佳单曲和最佳专辑的角逐中都没有被提名。

This wasn’t what any Grammys race-watchers were expecting to happen, considering that Swift has won more albums of the year over the past decade than any other artist except Adele, taking home the ceremony’s biggest award in 2010 for her “Fearless” album and again in 2016 for “1989.”

这可不是很多看格莱美奖的人想看到的，更何况Taylor Swift在过去10年中获得的最佳专辑奖基本比其他任何艺术家都多，仅次于Adele。Taylor在2010年以它的专辑“Fearless”获得了这项格莱美最高奖项，又在2016年用专辑“1989”再次获得。

Her November 2017 album “Reputation” missed the cutoff for the 2018 Grammys, which aired on Jan. 28, and was instead eligible for the 2019 awards, which airs next year on Feb. 10.

她2017年的专辑“Reputation”由于上架时间原因没能获准角逐1月28日的2018年的格莱美奖，只能参加次年2月10日的2019年格莱美奖。

That seemed like a blessing in disguise for Swift, as the similarly Grammys-beloved Bruno Mars went on to sweep the record, song and album of the year categories at the 2018 awards.

这可能也是因祸得福，因为同样身为格莱美宠儿的火星哥在2018年格莱美上横扫了最佳唱片、最佳单曲和最佳专辑的门类。

With “Reputation” competing in the 2019 Grammys instead, Swift seemed destined for an album of the year nomination, with her single “Delicate” predicted to land among the song and record of the year contenders.

本来，她的专辑“Reputation”似乎注定要拿下2019年格莱美的最佳专辑提名，她的单曲“Delicate”也被预测会拿下最佳单曲和最佳唱片。

Instead, “Reputation” earned only one nomination, for best pop vocal album, becoming Swift’s first album of her pop-music era not to receive an album of the year nod.

然而，“Reputation”只获得了一项提名——最佳流行声乐专辑，这让它成为了Taylor流行音乐生涯中第一张没有获得最佳专辑提名的专辑。

Swift’s surprising absence in the main categories is reminiscent of last year’s Grammy nominations, when Ed Sheeran, who was also thought at the time to be a shoo-in for the ceremony’s biggest awards, got totally shut out from the album, artist and record of the year categories.

霉霉这次在主竞赛门类的缺席让人联想起去年的格莱美，当时黄老板Ed Sheeran本来也被认为是十拿九稳能获得最高奖项的，但他最终却完全被最佳专辑、最佳歌手和最佳唱片拒之门外。

今日词汇

exclude /iks'klu:d/ 

v. 排除

这个词是 include 的反义词，include 表示“包括”，exclude 表示“排除在外”，与 from 连用。

Try excluding fat from your diet.

平时进食的时候试试避免食用脂肪。

另外它也表示“排除……的可能性”：

例如：

The police have excluded theft as a motive for the murder.

对于这起谋杀案的动机，警方已经排除了盗窃这一可能性。