The consequences of 1989 ended up being less enduring than many observers, including me, would have assumed. We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now – intuitively and in our historical reflexes – feel them to be.
1989年革命所带来的成果，最后没有包括我在内许多观察家所想象的那么持久。我们只能希望2009年的危机同样地最后被证明是远远低于我们现在以直觉和历史回顾的方式所感觉到的那么剧烈。