On the one hand, they wish to tell us that throughout the 1980s they were hoodwinked into believing that America was China's best friend and should be followed and imitated. Now they claim to have discovered that the opposite is the case, that America is the biggest threat to world peace and that its society is going to the dogs. Somewhere along the line, then, they made a big mistake about America.
他們一方面告訴我們，八○年代他們是如何上當，以至於相信美國是中國的好朋友，是值得追隨與模仿的對象；如今他們宣告幡然覺悟，發現美國是世界和平的最大威脅，它的社會靡爛不堪。