BERKELEY – In the political impasses that recently paralyzed the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, both countries’ usually clear-sighted leaders, to paraphrase William Butler Yeats, lacked all conviction, while the misguided and the shallow were full of passionate intensity. Indeed, that passion shows little sign of waning.
伯克利——在近来令印美这两个世界最大的民主国家陷入瘫痪的政治僵局中，在威廉·巴特勒·叶芝口中一向精明强干的两国领导人彻底丧失了说服力，而错误肤浅的舆论却愈演愈烈。事实上，类似这样的狂热几乎没有消退的迹象。