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“我为美国人感到难过”:世界如何看待今日的美国
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“他有很多核//武//器,”洪森所在的柬埔寨人民党发言人苏艾山在谈到特XX时说。“但他对一种看不见的疾病却不以为意。”
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Amid the pandemic and in the run-up to the presidential election, much of the world is watching the United States with a mix of shock, chagrin and, most of all, bafflement.
在疫情和总统大选即将到来的背景下,全世界无数人以震惊、懊恼,和最重要的——迷惑交织的情绪,关注着美国。
How did a superpower allow itself to be felled by a virus? And after nearly four years during which President Trump has praised authoritarian leaders and obscenely dismissed some other countries as insignificant and crime-ridden, is the United States in danger of exhibiting some of the same traits he has disparaged?
这样一个超级大国怎么就让自己被病毒击倒?在近四年的时间里,特XX总统不断赞美威权//领//导//人,肆意斥责其他一些国家微不足道、犯罪猖獗,但美国是否也有表现出他所蔑视的某些特质的危险?
“The U.S.A. is a first-world country but it is acting like a third-world country,” said U Aung Thu Nyein, a political analyst in Myanmar. Adding to the sense of bewilderment, Mr. Trump has refused to embrace an indispensable principl