Yet very little of this has ever been debated consciously by the English: that is the cost of their national genius for forgetting rather than forgiving.

但是英国人从来没有自觉讨论过这个问题：这个国家宁愿忘记而不肯原谅，以上就是这个普遍特征的代价。

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Moreover, I believe that part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

我进而相信美国的特殊禀赋始终在于它能够吸收新鲜血液，能够从那些抵达美国海岸的迥异的外来者中提炼出国家的个性。

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Imagine, then, if the James Carvilles, Dick Morrises and Karl Roves of the world put their visionary, calculating, often deviously cynical genius to work to promote the national interest globally.

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It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

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But he adds that the prize can also be seen as "an exhortation not to let this huge project of genius which is the European Union go to the dogs simply because of national selfishness and short-sightedness".

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