三年后，他犯了一生中的一个大错，让我大吃一惊：他居然让我接替他做《美国水星》的编辑，而且我还真的干了一段时间。

Three years later he astonished me by making the big mistake of his life: he asked me to succeed him as editor of The American Mercury, which for a while I did.

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美国人在搞'水星计划'、俄罗斯人在建'联盟号飞船'—我们有'艾尔·伯特纪念碑'。

The Americans had Project Mercury, the Russians the Soyuz programme - and we had the Albert memorial.

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公司CEO Alan Mulally关闭了美国福特旗下的水星汽车公司(Mercury)，转让了沃尔沃品牌，剥离了马自达的股权，因此销售大幅度上升了17%。

In the U.S., CEO Alan Mulally shuttered Ford's Mercury division, completed the sale of Volvo, divested its Mazda shares, and saw sales jump 17%.

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