For a democratic-minded president to co-habit (as the French call it) with the very man who sought to sabotage Ukraine’s last presidential ballot would, I knew, provoke institutional paralysis and political chaos. And so it has.

因为一位具有民主思想的总统与曾经妄图破坏乌克兰上一次总统投票的人同处一室（法国人的用词）肯定会引发机构瘫痪和政治混乱，我清楚地看到了这一点，而情况也确实不出我的所料。

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His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator.

他的小说《族长的秋天》完美地刻画了围裹着一个等待一位长期独裁者死亡的社会的道德贫困、政治麻痹和极度倦怠。

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