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So our positive interdependence, which is a fact, will prepare us to meet these challenges. But they can no longer be seen just as government-to-government. There is a time and an opportunity, and with the new technologies available, for us to be citizen diplomats, citizen activists, to solve problems one by one that will give in to hard work, patience, and persistence, and will then aggregate to the solutions we seek.
因此，我們之間積極的相互依賴 --這是一個事實--將使我們為應對這些挑戰做好準備。但這不能再被僅僅視作政府與政府之間的事情。隨著新技術的不斷涌現，我們有時間和機會成為公民外交家、公民活動家，通過辛勤工作、耐心和毅力一個一個地解決問題，逐步積累成我們所尋求的解決方案。
Now, I know we cannot send a special envoy to negotiate with a pandemic, or call a summit with carbon dioxide, or sever relations with the global financial crisis. To confront these threats and to seize the opportunities that they also present, we need to build new partnerships from the bottom up, and to use every tool at our disposal. That is the heart of smart power. But smart power requires smart people, people who have gone the distance for their education, who have opened themselves up to this increasingly complex and interconnected world, and this changing global landscape requires us to expand our concept of diplomacy.
我知道我們不能派特使與大規模流行的疾病進行談判，不能與二氧化碳召開高峰會，也不能與全球金融危機斷絕關系。要抗擊這些威脅并抓住這些威脅提供的機遇，我們需要自下而上地建立新的伙伴關系，利用手中可以利用的一切手段。這就是巧實力的實質。但巧實力來自精明的人，接受過良好教育的人，向日益復雜、相互關聯的世界開放的人，而不斷變化的全球場景要求我們必須擴大我們的外交概念。
