也许美国人也将复制英国人的历史，在相对衰败中寻求一线希望，这让我们对生存的讽刺与幽默，有了一种新的体验。

Perhaps Americans will copy the British, and find that the silver lining of relative decline is a new appreciation of dry humor and the irony of life.

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法国人嫉妒我们的一切成就；在伊拉克没有找到大规模杀伤性武器时，法国人也感到幸喜——不是为了世界和平而欢欣，只是为了证明美国人与英国人的错误。

How they delighted in the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. Not in a good way, but simply because it meant that America and Britain were proved wrong.

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尽管美国人或中国人会欣然与陌生人谈论薪水，以及个人财产的确切价值，却极少有英国人与家人之外的人提及这些事。

Where as the American or Chinese will willingly discusstheir salary with a stranger, along with the exact monetary valueof possessions, few from Britain would mention such things outsideclose family.

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