A senior White House official, briefing reporters after the talks, also gave the outcome a more positive spin than seemed warranted when he said, "in shorthand terms, we have retained the U."

会谈以后，一位白宫资深官员向记者简报时，也将会谈结果故意做正面解释。

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Because the stories I tell in this book are complicated enough as they are, I decided that the limitation of using the shorthand terms was worth the risk.

NPR: Historian Robert Satloff