双语时事：千禧一代是怎样改变了中东

2014-09-04 15:51:55来源：可可英语

　　It isn’t easy to track down a positive word about theMiddle East these days. Then again, Juan Cole is notyour typical observer. A professor of history at theUniversity of Michigan, he is also a prolific andpopular blogger on current affairs. An American, hespent part of his childhood in France and Ethiopia. Aleft-leaning idealist, he comes across as far moreoptimistic than the dour Occupy crowd. Acosmopolitan in constant touch with 20-somethings,he seems to be addressing boomers in his latestbook, “The New Arabs,” which is replete withexplanations that digital natives would never need. (Don’t know what the “meatspace” is? Readon.)

　　在如今，关于中东，你很难听到什么正面的说辞。此外，胡安·科尔(Juan Cole)可不是一般的观察家。他是密歇根大学的历史教授，也是既高产又受欢迎的时事博客写手。他是美国人，但童年时期曾经在法国和埃塞俄比亚生活过。他是个左倾的理想主义者，比那些阴沉沉的“占领者”们要乐观得多。他是个世界主义者，还经常和20多岁的人打交道，他的新书《新阿拉伯人》(The New Arabs)中有很多注释是数码一代根本不需要的，所以更像是对婴儿潮一代发表的讲演——你不知道什么叫“肉体空间”(meatspace，来自赛博朋克和科幻小说术语，指和“网络世界”“虚拟世界”相对的“现实世界”——译注)?接着往下读。

　　“The New Arabs” chronicles the heart-stirring youth revolts in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Earlyon, Cole does some defying of his own. “The rise of the Internet,” he notes, “may not havebeen as central to these social movements as some Western press coverage assumed.”

　　《新阿拉伯人》按时间顺序记载了发生在埃及、突尼斯和利比亚激动人心的青年反抗运动。一开始，科尔的观点有些矛盾，“互联网的崛起在这些社会运动中所起的作用，或许并不像某些西方媒体所报道的那样重要，”他指出。

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