We seem to have arrived in the country at just the right time, because not long before (November 1989) a bloodless revolution had toppled the Communist regime and installed a new democratic government.
漢學家變成報紙翻譯員兩個不速之客，來的似乎正是時候，因為就在不久前（一九八九年十一月十七日），布拉格一名武裝警察打傷學生，引起民眾公憤，在卅萬人的和平示威下，發生了一場不流血政變。執政的捷克共產黨眼見大勢已去，終於讓出政權，由新成立的公民論壇黨上台組織政府。