"The Future of Power" is a grand title for a book with an essentially modest ambition-but one that contains a fundamental lesson, nonetheless.

对一本实际上火候适度的书而言，“权力的未来”是个宏大的标题；尽管如此，它融入了最重要的经验。

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But as I show in my latest book, the Future of power, they fail to take into account the role of symmetry in interdependence in creating and limiting economic power.

但是在我最新出版的著作《国力的未来》中看来，他们不能忽视互相依赖中的力量均衡在构建和限制经济力量中的作用。

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Editor's note: Joseph S. Nye is University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, and author of the "the Future of Power," which PublicAffairs press will publish in February.

编者按：约瑟夫•奈是哈佛大学的‘大学杰出贡献教授’，以及《未来实力》一书的作者，该书将在二月份由公共事务出版社出版。

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President Obama has been deliberating over military proposals to boost U.S.strength in Afghanistan by as many as 40,000 troops, while the future of Germany's troop presence in Afghanistan was a key issue in the September elections that returned Chancellor Merkel to power.

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Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

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