真的，我亲爱的杰拉尔，你只是个小孩子，你自以为消息很灵通，因为有一份急报在皇上登陆后对你说，‘逆贼携随从数人于戛纳登陆，已在追逐中。’

Really, my dear Gérard, you are but a child; you think yourself well informed because the telegraph has told you, three days after the landing, 'The usurper has landed at Cannes with several men.

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丹尼尔·尤金(Daniel Yergin)：到70年代和80年代，对那些消息比较灵通的人来说已经很清楚了，苏联的体制真的无法运转，但是人们不能公开讨论。

DANIEL YERGIN: By the 1970s and '80s, it was becoming clear to the better informed that the Soviet system really wasn't working, but they couldn't really talk about it publicly.

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