Recently, I met a retired British diplomat who claimed with some pride that he was the man who had invented the phrase, “the management of decline”, to describe the central task of British foreign policy after 1945. “I got criticised”, he said, “but I think it was an accurate description of our task and I think we did it pretty well.”
最近我遇到了一位已经退休的英国外交官，他略带几分自豪地声称是他首创了“衰落管理”这个词组，用来描述1945年之后英国外交政策的核心任务。“我遭到了批评，”他表示，“但我认为，这个词组精准地描述了我们的任务，而且我认为我们相当出色地完成了这个任务。”
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