Recently, I met a retired British diplomat who claimed with some pride that he was the man who had invented the phrase, “the management of decline”, to describe the central task of British foreign policy after 1945. “I got criticised”, he said, “but I think it was an accurate description of our task and I think we did it pretty well.”
最近我遇到了一位已經退休的英國外交官，他略帶幾分自豪地聲稱是他首創了「衰落管理」這個片語，用來描述1945年之後英國外交政策的核心任務。「我遭到了批評，」他表示，「但我認爲，這個片語精準地描述了我們的任務，而且我認爲我們相當出色地完成了這個任務。」
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