双语新闻：默克尔愿为世界安定付出代价

2014-08-25 16:41:08来源：中新网

　　Mr Bertram has been asked by Mr Steinmeier to help lead a review of German foreign policy. Itfollows a much-heralded speech by Joachim Gauck at the Munich security conference inJanuary, when the German president called for the country to show greater responsibility, and awillingness to do more “to guarantee the security that others have provided it with fordecades”.

　　受外长施泰因迈尔之请，贝尔特拉姆参与对德国外交政策发起重新审视。随后，德国总统约阿希姆•高克(Joachim Gauck)今年1月在慕尼黑安全会议上发表了一次反响热烈的演讲。高克呼吁德国展示更大的责任感，以及采取更多行动“保障其他国家几十年来提供的安全”的意愿。

　　Both Mr Steinmeier, a Social Democrat, and Ursula von der Leyen, defence minister and leadingmember of Ms Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, lent their support to the president. Thechancellor, however, kept quiet, as she often does. She knows a more assertive foreign policyis not popular among voters.

　　来自社会民主党(Social Democrat)的施泰因迈尔，以及现任国防部长、默克尔所在的基民盟的主要成员乌尔苏拉•冯德莱恩(Ursula von der Leyen)都表达了对总统的支持。然而默克尔一如既往地保持缄默。她明白更自信的外交政策并不受选民欢迎。

　　That remains true. A poll carried out by the Körber foundation in May showed that just 37 percent of respondents think Germany should “engage more” in international crises, while 60 percent wanted to keep a low profile.

　　这是事实。柯尔柏基金会(Körber foundation)5月进行的民意调查显示，仅有37%的调查对象认为德国应该“更积极地参与”国际危机，而60%的调查对象则希望德国保持低调。

　　There is certainly no enthusiasm in Germany for “putting boots on the ground”. On thatscore, Mr Putin is right to think Berlin is not prepared to intervene militarily in Ukraine. But heis wrong to think that means doing nothing.

　　毫无疑问，德国并不热衷于出动军事力量。在这一点上，普京认为柏林并没有准备对乌克兰事务进行武力干预，是正确的。但他错误以为这就意味着德国不会采取任何行动。

　　Mr Putin may have misread Ms Merkel because her instinct is to wait and see. She is apragmatist who looks for solutions to problems, and eschews ideology. Although theexpression embarrasses most German politicians, she knows there is such a thing as the“national interest”.

　　普京之所以误读了默克尔，也许是因为她的本能是静观其变。她是一个务实主义者，寻求问题的解决方法，并回避意识形态问题。她知道有“国家利益”这么一回事，尽管这个词会让绝大多数德国政治人士感到不安。

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