主题：杰克伦敦的短文《黄祸》和小说《空前入侵》 -- CaoMeng

The Chinese and Japanese are thrifty and industrious.

中日两国人是节俭和勤劳的。

China possesses great natural resources of coal and iron—and coal and iron constitute the backbone of machine civilization.

中国拥有煤和铁的巨大自然资源，煤和铁构成了机械文明的支柱。

When four hundred and fifty million of the best workers in the world go into manufacturing, a new competitor, and a most ominous and formidable one, will enter the arena where the races struggle for the world-market.

当四亿五千万世界最优秀的工人进入制造业，一个新的竞争对手，一个极可怕和厉害的竞争对手，将进入各种族为世界市场的斗争。

Here is the race-adventure—the first clashing of the Asiatic dream with ours. It is true, it is only an economic clash, but economic clashes always precede clashes at arms. And what then? Oh, only that will-o’-wisp, the Yellow peril. But to the Russian, Japan was only a will-o’-wisp until one day, with fire and steel, she smashed the great adventure of the Russian and punctured the bubble-dream he was dreaming. Of this be sure: if ever the day comes that our dreams clash with that of the Yellow and the Brown, and our particular bubble-dream is punctured, there will be one country at least unsurprised, and that country will be Russia. She was awakened from her dream. We are still dreaming.