Back in 2001, just after 9/11, the Economist ran a cover with the headline The Day the World Changed. It felt right at the time. But when historians come to look back at our times I wonder if, vile as it was, that will really be the event they note as the trigger for the western world changing.
回到2001年,當(dāng)時(shí)9/11恐怖襲擊剛剛過去,《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》(Economist)雜志刊登了一個(gè)封面,標(biāo)題是“改變世界的一天”(The Day the World Changed)。當(dāng)時(shí)這樣的斷語(yǔ)讓人覺得頗為貼切。但是,盡管這一事件非常糟糕,當(dāng)歷史學(xué)家們開始回顧我們所處的時(shí)代時(shí),我揣測(cè)他們會(huì)否真的認(rèn)為那是引發(fā)西方世界改變的事件。
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