This year, optimists might therefore seek comfort in the prevailing fashion at the 2009 World Economic Forum for participants to eclipse the previous speaker with an ever more doom-laden prognosis. But those looking for cheer amid the gloom should take a moment to cast their minds back to one recent Davos prediction that has undoubtedly come true. In January 2006 Tim Adams, then the US Treasury's top international affairs official, spent his time defending the US from its detractors.
因此,今年樂觀人士或許要從2009年世界經濟論壇(World Economic Forum)的流行風尚中尋求安慰——與會者用越來越令人絕望的預測,令上一位發言者黯然失色。但那些希望在一片悲觀中尋求鼓舞的人們應花一點時間,回想一下達佛斯近來一個無疑已應驗的預言。2006年1月,面對指責美國的人們,時任美國財政部主管國際事務副部長的蒂姆•亞當斯(Tim Adams)堅持爲美國辯護。