2015考研英语阅读外交往事_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读外交往事

　　Mr Gaddis is unequivocal on this topic. He told the New York Times in 2004 that Americanimperial powerhas been a remarkable force for good, for democracy, for prosperity.He has also expressed his admiration for the former presidents, Ronald Reagan andGeorge Bush junior, and their versions of grand strategy, a topic he now teaches at YaleUniversity. All of these developments have naturally given rise to much speculation. CouldMr Gaddis, who admits that he speaks no foreign languages, get on top of the mountain ofmaterial and do credit to such an international polymath? Would his own views emergealong with Kennan s? The 784-page answer to both these questions is yes.

　　约翰加迪斯对每一个话题都不含糊。2004年他曾告诉《纽约时报》的记者：美利坚帝国有种非常不平凡的力量，一种使之优秀、民主、繁荣的力量。同时他也表达了对前总统里根和小布什以及他们的伟大战略的敬佩之意，这也是他在耶鲁大学教授的课题。这些言语自然引起了人们进一步的猜测。承认自己不懂外语的约翰加迪斯，能否征服堆积如山的资料，为乔治凯南这样的国际大家赢得赞颂?他的观点是否来自乔治凯南?这部厚达784页的作品肯定的回答了这两个问题。

　　Mr Gaddis has mastered the sources that came his way over the decades. The resultingbiography is engaging and lucid. The first half of the book almost has the sweep of anovel. Readers join Kennan in Germany as the Nazis rise; in Norway in 1931 as the awkwardyoung man meets the parents of his fiance, to whom he would remain married for 73 years;in the Soviet Union in 1933 as he establishes the first American embassy; in Czechoslovakiaas Adolf Hitler arrives and the world descends into another war; and back in Moscow again in1945 when he receives skin-crawling personal compliments from Joseph Stalin on his Russianlanguage skills. The chapter detailing Kennan s breakthroughachieved by redesigningAmerican foreign policy at a stroke, via his 5,000-word Long Telegram from Moscow toWashington, DC, in 1946is particularly gripping. As he himself put it: My reputation wasmade. My voice now carried.