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"The more democratic a culture is, the harder it is to appropriate a previous leader.
社會越民主，就越難盜用前任領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人的聲譽(yù)。
I mean it's very interesting at the moment to see the revival of Stalin for instance in Putin's Russia as an admired figure, having been knocked down as a bloodthirsty tyrant before.
在如今普京統(tǒng)治下的俄羅斯，看到曾被視作嗜血暴君而被打倒的斯大林的影響逐漸復(fù)蘇，實(shí)在是很有意思。
So the possibility of taking a figure from the past is always open, but as I say the more conversational, the more confrontational, more democratic, the more argumentative a political culture is, the harder it is.
因此，利用已逝領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人形象的案例屢見不鮮，但如果社會更民主，對爭議與對抗更寬容，這樣的情況就會減少。
"You can see this in the case of Churchill, because there are still lots and lots of people who know a great deal about what Churchill thought and said.
以丘吉爾為例，他的思想與言論廣為人知，
Any mainstream party which tried to say 'we are the party of Churchill' would get into trouble, because Churchill changed his mind so much that he can be quoted against you as often as he can be quoted in favour of you."
如今，如果有主流政黨聲稱自己奉行丘吉爾政策，就一定會惹上麻煩，因?yàn)樗难哉摮３Ｗ韵嗝?。你能找到對你有利的話，也一定能找到相反的例子?/div>
Dead rulers are still very present, and they're still on the currency.
逝世的統(tǒng)治者依然長存，他們的身影留在我們的貨幣上。
A thoughtful alien handling the banknotes of China and the United States today might well assume that one was ruled by Mao and the other by George Washington.
如果此刻一個外星人同時拿著中國與美國的貨幣，大概會認(rèn)為這兩國的現(xiàn)任領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人一個是毛澤東，一個是喬治華盛頓。
And in a sense, that's exactly what the Chinese and American leaders want us all to think.
而從某種意義上說，這正是兩國領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人所希望的。
Political giants like these lend an aura of stability, legitimacy, and above all of unquestionable authority, to modern regimes struggling with huge problems.
政治偉人為面臨巨大問題的現(xiàn)代國家?guī)矸€(wěn)定的氛圍、合法性以及不容置疑的權(quán)威性。
Lysimachus's gambit still sets the pace for the world's superpowers.
利西馬科斯的政策與現(xiàn)代超級大國的政治依然合拍。
