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翻译练习6 是本文后半部分的黄色高亮部分。The Posts View （Washington Post) Democracy in retreatA Baku resident removes a portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Azerbaijan, shortly after the country’s declaration of independence in 1991. (ANATOLY SAPRONENKO/Agence France-Presse/GETTY IMAGES)By?Editorial Board?March 13 at 8:40 PM?Follow postopinionsAFTER THE Cold War it seemed that democracy was spreading, dictatorships were tumbling and capitalism ascendant. Today, democracy is in retreat. Liberal values such as transparency, rule of law, accountability and respect for human dignity are being widely trampled. Autocrats and even some Western politicians openly traffic in fear, xenophobia and paranoia. The enemies of democracy are growing bolder by the day. The United States is partly responsible for letting this happen. It should step up to the autocrats of the world and confront their dangerous illiberalism.A remarkable wave of democratic change that began in the mid-1970s climaxed after the Cold War. According to a new book, “Authoritarianism Goes Global,” from 1990 to 2005, the number of countries identified by Freedom House as “electoral democracies” grew from 76 to 119. During the same period, the number of countries rated “free” expanded from 65 to 89. In the January issue of the?Journal of Democracy, Christopher Walker writes that a central assumption during these golden years was that authoritarian regimes would change if only they were engaged by democracies and shown the way. But they did not. In its latest annual survey,?Freedom House?found 2015 to be the 10th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. “Rather than reforming, most of these repressive regimes have deepened their authoritarianism,” Mr. Walker writes.The tyrants of today are more sophisticated than those of the past; rather than outright totalitarianism, they erect a facade of democracy and subvert it from within. They hold elections that are not competitive, use government-approved shell groups to edge out gen
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