America as a model or America as a protector – this “European dilemma” is in itself new. For, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most Europeans viewed the United States as both its defender against the Soviet Union’s expansionist aims and the key external actor for their deeply wounded continent’s moral and economic reconstruction.
美国作为一种模式还是作为一个保护人，这一“欧洲难题”本身就是新的。因为，在第二次世界大战结束不久，大多数欧洲人把美国既看作防止苏联扩张主义目标的保护人，又是深受伤害的欧洲大陆道德和经济重建的关键外部力量。