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- Two: Do you remember your President Nixon?
- 2.还记得尼克松总统吗?
- By the time I recall getting interested in politics, I was a junior high school kid, and the Watergate scandal was in full bloom.
- 我开始对政治感兴趣是在上高中的时候,当时水门事件正愈演愈烈。
- From the comments of Republicans and Democrats alike, it was obviously time for Richard Milhous Nixon to resign or be impeached.
- 从共和党和民主党的言论来看,显然理查德·米尔豪斯·尼克松必须要么辞职,要么被弹劾。
- It was clear to me that Nixon was, despite his protests, a crook.
- 对于我来说,不管尼克松怎么辩解,他显然是个骗子。
- It was clear to me then that he was the worst president ever.
- 我觉得我觉得他是有史以来最差的总统。
- Thirty years later, I've come to believe that Nixon eroded considerably the presidency's prestige. He sure did.
- 30年后,我开始意识到尼克松严重损害了总统的威信。确实是这样。
- But I have also come to realize that Nixon's foreign policy, aside from the quote-unquote "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam War, made a lot of sense.
- 但我也意识到他的外交政策,除了越南战争中的“战争越南化”外,很多都很有道理。
- It's amazing what you can learn as you grow older and examine things critically.
- 你成长之后,重新批判性地看事物时会令人惊讶地学到很多新东西。
- Nixon's decision to establish relations with Red China was an important step toward ending the Cold War.
- 尼克松与红色中国建立外交关系是结束冷战的重要一步。
- The Chinese were grateful for being recognized as a world power.
- 中国人很高兴能够被看成是世界主要力量之一。
- The Soviets were frightened by China's enhanced status.
- 苏联很害怕中国地位的提升。
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教授分析了美国低迷时代产生的主要原因,期间的主要事件,美国总统的表现,以及苏联的所作所为,他还探讨了美国要不要推行美式和平和恐怖主义问题。
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