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全球性问题如恐怖主义、不平等和政治失能等都不容易解決，但并不代表我们要停止尝试。事实上，记者乔纳森·特普曼建议，我匀们也许可以从更冒险的角度去思考。他周游世界请教教各地的领导人，问他们是如何克服难题的--并且发现了出人意料的希望故事，而他从这些故事中提取出了三个解決问题的工具。
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- In 1998, the people of Indonesia took to the streets and overthrew their longtime dictator, Suharto.
- 1998年，印度尼西亚人民走上街头，推翻了长期的独裁者苏哈托
- It was an amazing moment, but it was also a scary one.
- 那是一个令人激动的时刻，但也是一个可怕的时刻
- With 250 million people, Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority country on Earth.
- 拥有2.5亿人口的印尼是地球上最大的以穆斯林为主的国家
- It's also hot, huge and unruly, made up of 17,000 islands,
- 它还很热、很大并且难以管理，由17000个岛屿组成
- where people speak close to a thousand languages.
- 全国人民说着将近1000种不同的语言
- Now, Suharto had been a dictator, and a nasty one.
- 苏哈托是一个独裁者，并且是一个很令人厌恶的独裁者
- But he'd also been a pretty effective tyrant,
- 但他也是一个很实在的暴君
- and he'd always been careful to keep religion out of politics.
- 他一直小心的不让宗教渗入到政治中来
- So experts feared that without him keeping a lid on things,
- 因此专家还担心如果没有他控制局面
- the country would explode, or religious extremists would take over
- 这个国家有可能分崩离析，或者宗教极端主义者可能掌管这个国家
- and turn Indonesia into a tropical version of Iran.
- 并将印尼变成热带地区的伊朗。
- And that's just what seemed to happen at first.
- 一开始事情似乎是朝着那个方向发展的。
- In the country's first free elections, in 1999,
- 1999年在这个国家举行的第一次自由选举中
- Islamist parties scored 36 percent of the vote,
- 伊斯兰政党得到了36%的选票
- and the islands burned as riots and terror attacks killed thousands.
- 这些岛屿开始战火不断，骚乱和恐怖袭击导致数以千计的民众死亡
- Since then, however, Indonesia has taken a surprising turn.
- 然而，从那以后，印尼却发生了出人意料的转变
- While ordinary folks have grown more pious on a personal level --
- 从个人层面上来说普通民众变得更加虔诚了--
- I saw a lot more headscarves on a recent visit than I would have a decade ago
- 我最近一次访问见到的戴头巾的民众要比十年前更多了
- the country's politics have moved in the opposite direction.
- 这个国家的政治却走向了一个相反的方向。
- Indonesia is now a pretty decent democracy.
- 印度尼西亚现在是一个相当民主的国家。
- And yet, its Islamist parties have steadily lost support,
- 而它的伊斯兰政党正在持续地失去支持，
- from a high of about 38 percent in 2004 down to 25 percent in 2014.
- 从2004年高达38%的支持率降至2014年的25%
- As for terrorism, it's now extremely rare.
- 而恐怖主义现在也非常之少了。
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