The United States’ partnership with the United Kingdom is one forged in war – and a pillar of the West for more than a half-century. The US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era was special in that relations between those two countries shaped the fate of the world until the USSR imploded.
这个世界上存在着许多“特殊关系”。在二战中孕育出来的美英伙伴关系算是其中之一，并成为了西方半个世纪以来的政治基础。冷战期间的美苏敌对关系则影响了整个世界的命运，直到苏联解体为止。而据说如今中美两国之间也开始培育一种新的特殊关系。