So the book is really an effort to answer what role America should play in the world.

这本书事实上是在试图,回答美国在世界这个大环境中应该扮演怎样的角色。

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It's a challenge, and Eikhenbaum's essay that you read for today is in part--to a degree that it can't really come out and talk about, or doesn't want to come out and talk about it a response to Trotsky's book.

而艾肯鲍姆在论文中,却并没有回应托洛斯基的书，艾肯鲍姆并不想回应,不愿站出来回答。

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