China may regard the nineteenth-century experience of a windswept island off the northwest coast of Europe as an odd source of inspiration. But if Chinese leaders meeting at their party plenum accomplish half as much as their nineteenth-century English predecessors, they will have done very well indeed.
中国可能认为这个偏居欧洲大陆西北一隅的岛国在十九世纪的经验作为他山之石难以接受。但如果中国领导人可以在三中全会上取得十九世纪英国先行者一半的成果，便已着实不错了。