外刊精读(七)：China’s Twilight Years.docx

China’s Twilight Years中国的晚年On opposite sides?of the globe, two debates that will profoundly affect the future of the United States, and indeed the world, are raging. One of them has become shrilly public, while the other remains almost secret. On the surface they might seem to have little to do with each other, but at bottom, they are inextricably linked.【生词】profoundly深刻地 shrilly 耀眼地 inextricably逃不掉地；解不开地【分析】这句中句子的主干是two debates are raging。 that will profoundly affect the future of the United States, and indeed the world是定语从句修饰two debates。【翻译】在地球的两边,将深刻影响美国的未来,甚至世界的两个辩论激烈进行中。其中一个已经成为耀眼的公众话题,而另一个几乎仍是秘密。表面上他们双方似乎可能毫不相干,但归根结底它们是密不可分的。The first debate, which is unfolding in America, concerns immigration. Republicans like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have staked out some of the more radical positions in this debate, such as urging that the U.S. build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants and that it deport the millions who are already here. The other debate, which is playing out in Beijing, is about how big a navy China should build, and how much it should contest America’s primacy in the world’s oceans.【生词】unfold 打开，呈现 immigration移民 deport驱逐出境 primacy首位【分析】句子的主干是Republicans have staked out some of the more radical positions in this debate。that the U.S. build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants and that it deport the millions who are already here.是urging后的宾语从句。who are already here是定语从句修饰the millions。【翻译】第一场辩论,发生在美国,有关移民问题。在这场辩论中像唐纳德·特朗普和泰德·克鲁兹等共和党人挑明了一些更激进的立场,如敦促美国建造一堵墙阻挡非法移民,并驱逐数百万已经在美国的移民。在北京上演的另一场辩论是关于中国应该建立多大海军,多大应该可与美国在世界上的海洋的霸主地位抗衡。To a degree scarcely suspected by most people, both debates—and more generally, America’s chances of maintaining its standing in the world—are bound up in the two countries’ sharply contrasting population dynamics.【生词】suspect怀疑 dynamic动态【分析】句子的主干是both debates are bound up in the two countries’ sharply contrasting population dynamics. and more generally, America’s chances of maintaining its standin