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翻译 例文2: Remarks by U.S. Former President Nixon China has been through a wrenching series of changes and experiments. It is not for me, or for others in America, to tell China what its economic system should be. What works best for China will be a system rooted in China itself—in Chinese customs and traditions and ways of doing things. The proof of any system lies in its results: in the extent to which it provides for the people more of what those people want. What the people of China want will not be in all respects the same as what the people of the United States would want. But in some respects it will be the same. The bottom line test of any economic system is whether it works. An economic system that works is one that creates incentives to produce, and provides a fair distribution of what is produced. What incentives will work, what distribution is seen to be “ fair”—these are questions that different cultures may answer differently, and that even the same culture may answer differently in different periods of history or at different stages of its development. Among the great nations, the United States’ economic system is the most successful in history in producing prosperity. The Chinese system is the most successful in history in producing equality. The challenge we both face is to avoid forcing people to make a hard choice between a system at one extreme which provides equality but would perpetuate poverty and one at the other extreme which provides prosperity but would ignore poverty. Poverty is too high a price to pay for either equality or prosperity. China’s challenge is to support the principle of equality without destroying the productivity of its people. America’s challenge is to provide prosperity which gives all an opportunity to escape from poverty. Our systems are profoundly different but in the long view our goal of a better life for all our people is the same. After centuries of war and revolution, China needs a century of peace and a century of