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People have enjoyed such huge capital gains over the past decade that most feel like gamblers on a long winning streak.人们在过去十几年来享受了如此丰厚的资本收益，以至于他们似乎感觉像只赢不陪的赌徒。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010
In Europe, house prices have also increased sharply over the last decade – more dramatically than in the US in many cases.在欧洲，过去十年中房地产价格也大幅度上升，在许多情况下比美国还有过之无不及。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 24.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 24.01.2011
Looking back at the crisis a decade later, we can see more clearly how wrong the diagnosis, prescription, and prognosis of the IMF and United States Treasury were.十年之后回首这一危机，我们可以更为清晰地看到国际货币基金组织和美国财政部的判断、处方以及预测是多么错误。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 13.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 13.01.2011
Latin America was stuck in its own lost decade after the debt crisis at the start of the 1980’s.拉丁美洲在二十世纪八十年代初叶的债务危机后正陷入它自己失去的十年中。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 21.12.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 21.12.2010
Compared to just a decade before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this represents a significant change in people’s views.与10年前《世界人权宣言》通过之前相比，人们的观点发生了至关重要的变化。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011
A decade later, with the Cold War’s end, the new conventional wisdom was that the world was a unipolar American hegemony.10年后，随着冷战结束，新的公众观点又 认为世界上只有美国一个超级霸权。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 29.10.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 29.10.2010
China’s economy is growing more rapidly, and its total size will probably overtake Japan’s in a decade or two, but any serious analysis of power in East Asia must include Japan as a major factor.中国的经济发展迅速，其总量很可能在十年或二十年内超过日本，但任何对东亚 力量的严肃分析都必须将日本作为一个主要因素来考量。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 21.12.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 21.12.2010
But, over the last decade, major European banks have acquired foreign banks through such mergers as the acquisition by Spain’s Banco Santander of the UK’s Abbey National, Italy’s UniCredito of Austria’s Hypovereinsbank and Holland’s ABN-AMRO.但在过去十年里，欧洲主要的银行已经收购了许多外国银行，其中包括西班牙的 Banco Santander收购英国的Abbey National，意大利的UniCredito收购奥地利的Hypovereinsbank及荷兰银行。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 26.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 26.01.2011
A decade ago, the world had a foretaste of what can happen when ethnic divisions are exploited for sinister political purposes.10年之前，世界首次尝到了种族之间的隔阂被政治用心险恶的人所利用将会带来什么样的结果。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.02.2009© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.02.2009
To the scientific community, the evidence on climate change has, of course, been overwhelming for more than a decade and a half.在科学家们看来，气候变化当然从15年前开始就已经再明显不过。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010
Moreover, Kosovo’s ambition to join the EU in the next decade means that its treatment of the Serb minority will attract very close and intensive scrutiny.不仅如此，科索沃在未来十年内加入欧盟的理想意味着它对塞尔维亚少数族裔的待遇将会受到非常严密和认真的审查。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011
On January 20, Serbs go to the polls for the first round of a presidential election that may decide the country’s future for decades to come.1月20日，塞尔维亚人就决定未来几十年国家命运的首轮总统选举进行了投票。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011
America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm that children’s blood today contains dozens of chemicals that did not exist two decades earlier, including many gene-damaging compounds known to cause cancer and a host of other diseases.美国疾病控制与预防中心确认当今儿童的血液中含有二十年前并不存在的数十种化学物质，其中包括许多已知会导致癌症和一系列其他疾病的破坏基因的化合物。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011
There is uncertainty about the quantitative parameters, and there can be doubt about whether the warming of recent decades is entirely due to the “greenhouse effect.”现在对于数量的参数存在不确定，而对于最近几十年的变暖是否完全应该归因于“温室效应”也存在质疑声。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011
Fifteen years after the Soviet Union collapsed and split apart, Russia still fits Winston Churchill’s characterization of Stalin’s USSR nearly seven decades ago: “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”苏联崩溃并解体后十五年后，俄国依然符合丘吉尔在几乎七十年前对斯大林统治下的苏联的概括，那就是错综复杂，扑朔迷离。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010
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