文章大意:本文是新闻报道。文章报道了泰勒·斯威夫特(Taylor Swift)被《时代》杂志评选为2023年“年度人物”的新闻,同时包含了对斯威夫特成就和影响力的描述,以及对她个人的采访内容。
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Taylor Swift is ending her year with another honor. The pop superstar 1 (name) Time magazine’s 2023 “Person of the Year,” 2 (beat) out Barbie and King Charles III. “While her popularity 3 (grow) across the decades, this is the first year 4 Swift, 33, achieved a kind of nuclear fusion (核聚变): shooting art and commerce together 5 (release) an energy of historic force,” the magazine said. Time said Swift was selected 6 she found a way to give people around the world hope in some seriously dark times. “No one else 7 the planet today can move so many people so well,” Time said in its profile, “ 8 giving too much credit to 9 star ignores her skill and her power.” The magazine also interviewed Swift, with the artist revealing that “this is the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt, and the most 10 (creative) fulfilled and free I’ve ever been.”