When the crisis in Syria erupted, nobody predicted how serious, protracted, and complex it would turn out to be. For starters, observers underestimated citizens' ever-deepening sense of hopelessness, which has driven them to support jihadi groups or the Assad regime.
叙利亚危机爆发时，没人预测到会如此严重、漫长和复杂。首先，观察者低估了叙利亚人民不断加深的绝望感，这种感觉促使他们支持圣战组织或巴沙尔·阿萨德政权。