当代美国翻译~考试用英汉版

Introduction 引言；前言；绪言

The opening decade of the twenty-first century has been overwhelmingly shaped by the American and world response to the terror attacks of 11 September 2001.Many analysts speak of a paradigm shift in foreign policy alignments, global economies, and domestic affairs.The events of the post (=late)-11 September world make the 1990s seem a vast, quaint (奇怪的) universe away.But we should note that analysts had christened (洗礼仪式) the last decade of the twentieth century as a ―New World Order‖ under the common umbrella of democracy and free market capitalism.Certainly the decade marked a decisive end to the ―post (after)-World War II‖ or ―Cold War‖ world and ushered in a new era.The 45-year period following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the, division of the world into “free” and “communist” influences, and the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 changed things.The world is still adjusting to those changes and countries rush (run) to realign (重新排列, 再结盟) the geopolitical order.

美国和世界对于2001年9月11日恐怖袭击的反应已经压倒性地充斥了21世纪的头十年。许多分析家谈到一个关于外交政策路线，全球经济和国内事务的范式转变。9月11日世界发生的事件让20世纪90年代不再是一个巨大的，奇怪的宇宙。但是，我们应该注意到，那些分析师已经把二十世纪的最后十年，洗礼成了民主和自由市场资本主义在―世界新秩序‖下的共同的庇护所。当然，这十年标志着一个决定性―二战后的‖或―冷战‖的世界的结束，也开辟了一个新的时代。在向广岛和长崎投下原子弹后的45年间，世界被―自由‖和―共产主义‖影响着，1989年柏林墙的倒塌也让事情产生了变化。世界仍然在适应这些变化，各个国家也趋向于重新调整地缘政治的秩序。

Historically, the world’s nations have always been involved in a struggle for power. In the twentieth century the rise of the United States of America to superpower status prompted many to label the era ―the American Century‖ and the dominance of American popular culture and products came to be called ―Americanization (美国化).‖ Currently there is a rise in what might be termed ―America-phobia (恐怖症)‖ as some groups seek to tear down the hegemony (霸权) held by the United States.There are widespread complaints about the cheapness of American culture with its runaway [逃跑, 失控的] materialism.Others fear the transformation of their own culture to mirror changing American patterns, from birth-control pills to gender equality. Still others, who refuse, or are too young, to remember when the United States was an indispensable part of ―the West‖ –buttressing (支持) Europe with an economic aid package called the Marshall Plan and protecting European and Japanese growth through military security –only see a selfish nation that goes its own way without a due respect for world opinion.There is no doubt that American military and economic power is in a league of its own.

从历史角度来看，世界各国一直被卷入一场权力斗争当中。在20世纪，美国超级大国地位的上升，促使许多人将这个时代为―美国世纪‖的时代，同时美国流行文化和产品所占的

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