极权主义国家

Even more remarkably, he is able to reach back into the totalitarian past and over the Berlin Wall into the grim, brutal absurdity of the late, unlamented German Democratic Republic, and lay bare the anxious, cruel psychology of socialism as it once existed.

更让人叹为观止的是，他居然能够回溯潜入那段极权主义过往的深处，越过高耸的柏林墙，从早已作古而无人惋惜的民主德国那段阴暗残忍的荒谬历史中挖掘出曾经的社会主义国家那焦虑而又悲惨的内心世界。

The new Polish foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, also favours a museum of totalitarianism in Brussels, to put the monstrous regimes of the 20th century on the equal footing that many in eastern Europe believe is right.

波兰新外长雷德克？斯考斯基同样赞成在布鲁塞尔建造一座极权主义博物馆，以在那里再现20世纪的一些恐怖政权的统治，但前提是许多中欧国家会认为那样做是正确的。

"The defense strategy that refused to hand the South Koreans over to a totalitarian neighbor helped raise up an Asian tiger that is a model for developing countries across the world, including the Middle East, and the result of American scarifies and perseverance in Asia is a freer, more prosperous, and stable continent- whose people want to live in peace with America-not attack America."

&当初拒绝将韩国移交于一个极权主义领国的防御策略帮助韩国发展为亚洲之虎，同时跻身为世界上发展中国家，包括中东地区在内众多国家的楷模。而美国付出的牺牲与坚定不移的信念换来了亚洲日益自由，繁荣以及稳定的局面，那里的人们都期望与美国和平相处，而不是以美国为敌。&

Other academics have made their own suggestions: the stultifying pursuit of bureaucratic rank in the Middle Kingdom and the absence of a mercantile class to foster competition and self-improvement; the sheer size of China compared with the smaller states of Europe whose fierce rivalries fostered technological competition; its totalitarianism.

其他的学者都得出了他们自己的结论：在帝国中期一味的追名逐利以及竞争和自我提升教育的缺乏；与那些培育了科技竞争力的欧洲国家来说，中国的纯领土面积较大；极权主义。

Before we explode in rage that Chinese Communist totalitarianism now wants to control even the lives of its subjects after their deaths, we should remember that such measures are not unknown to European history. The Peace of Augsburg in 1555, the first step toward the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years' War, declared the local prince's religion to be the official faith of a region or country ("cuius regio, eius religio").

我们会震怒于中国***的极权主义如今甚而想控制其琛民死后的状况，但在此之前，我们应该记得，这样的管理办法对欧洲历史来说并不陌生。1555年的奥格斯堡和平协定--迈向1648年终结三十年战争的威斯特伐利亚协定的第一步--宣布地方君主的宗教为地区或国家的官方信仰。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。