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家园 China Rises, and Checkmates

China Rises, and Checkmates

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/opinion/09kristof.html

In the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes about his meeting with Hou Yifan, a 16-year-old who recently became the youngest world chess champion:

Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake the world.” That is becoming true even in spheres that China historically has had little connection with, like chess, basketball, rare earth minerals, cyber warfare, space exploration and nuclear research.

他也引用了拿破仑对中国的评语:中国如果醒来,她会震动这个世界。这句话变得越来越真实,而且还在一些中国不擅长的领域也是,比如:国际象棋,篮球,稀土,电脑网络战,空间探索,核技术研究。

This is a process that Miss Hou exemplifies. Only about 1 percent of Chinese play chess, and China has never been a chess power. But since 1991, China has produced four women’s world chess Champions, and Ms. Hou is the one with by far the most promise.

这个过程中,一个中国16岁的小女孩是典型代表。中国只有不到1%的人下国际象棋,但1991年开始,中国已经产生了4位女子国际象棋冠军。侯逸凡是最年轻,最有希望的一位。

It will be many, many decades before China can challenge the United States as the overall “No. 1” in the world, for we have a huge lead and China still must show that it can transition to a more open and democratic society. But already in discrete areas — its automobile market, carbon emissions and now women’s chess — China is emerging as No. 1 here and there, and that process will continue.

也许中国需要几十年才能赶上美国成为这个世界的No.1。中国需要展示她能够转型到更开放民主的社会(作者很普世)。但在一些领域,中国已经是世界第一了,比如汽车销售量、CO2的排放量和女子象棋。这个过程还会继续。

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