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家园 《大西洋月刊》长文:“美国如何再次崛起?”

[URL=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/how-america-can-rise-again/7839/

]Atlantic: How America Can Rise Again[/URL]

Author: James Fallows

January/ February 2010

目录是:

1) One Reason Not to Worry: We Have Been Here Before

2) Another Reason Not to Worry: The Irrelevance of “Falling Behind”

3) The Crucial American Advantage

4) The Main Concerns: jobs, debt, military strength, and overall independence.)这里的concern 都谈到了中国,特别是军事。

5) The Biggest Problem. 作者谈到了政府,需要政府转型:America needed “a government as good as its people.”

6) What Is To Be Done?(America is not going to have a Communist revolution nor endure “100 Years of Humiliation,” as Imperial China did. 老美还知道中国的百年屈辱?)

a)这家伙想要政变:We could hope for an enlightened military coup, or some other deus ex machina by the right kind of tyrants.

b)民主政治改革:We could hope to change the basic nature of our democracy, so it fits the times as our other institutions do.

c)修改宪法:In principle, the United States could call for a new constitutional convention, to reconsider all the rules.

d)新的外来威胁改变美国人:We might hope for another Sputnik moment.

e)作者有点失望: Our government is old and broken and dysfunctional, and may even be beyond repair.

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