Third, even if America under Obama praises and even practices multilateralism, Americans are far from ready to accept the reality of a multi-polar world. They may write about it conceptually, but its meaning – a world in which their country is only “primus inter pares” – has not really penetrated the national psyche.
第三，即使奥巴马治下的美国提出，甚至施行多边主义，美国人也远远没有准备好接受一个多极的世界。他们可能会就它的概念写些东西，但是它的含义—在这个世界中他们的国家仅仅是“资格最老的那个” —并没有真正深入这个国家的精神。