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You hear quite a lot these days about America’s decline.
近来人们都听到了很多有关美国衰落的言论。
It’s perhaps inevitable that Americans are worried about their place in the world, after suffering through a massive financial crisis, a tepid recovery, two decades of no wage growth, and a constant stream of news coming from rising China, a nation of 1.3 billion people with seemingly limitless potential.
也难怪美国人会对他们在世界上所处的地位感到忧虑：先是遭遇了一场大规模的金融危机，随后是缓慢的经济复苏，工资二十年来停滞不前；与此同时，从正在崛起的中国又不断传来各种消息——这个拥有13亿人口的国家看上去拥有无尽的潜力。
And it’s true that, by any measure, America’s relative power is in decline.
而事实上，无论按照何种标准来衡量，美国的相对实力的确正处于衰落之中。
