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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN是个很有名的作家，他的大作THE WOLD IS FLAT我已经买了有两年了，不过遗憾的是到现在我还没有读完 － 关于中国的部分早就看过了。
刚好今天又读到他关于奥运的新文章，发表在纽约时报（NEW YORK TIMES）的网站上，题目是“A Biblical Seven Years”。

弗瑞德曼用比较的眼光阐述了自2001年到2008年七年时间里中美的大事记，正如他文中所说:
“As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones.”

弗瑞德曼理性地看到了中国七年为奥运的准备，更理性地呼吁美国应该回到“建设国家”来 － 象中国，成功的奥运背后是历时七年的建设和奋斗，这是最厚重的根基。发展是硬道理，这一代伟人的至理名言不仅仅适用于中国。

最后他说：
“Obama is more right than he knows when he proclaims that this is “our” moment, this is “our” time. But it is our time to get back to work on the only home we have, our time for nation-building in America. I never want to tell my girls — and I’m sure Obama feels the same about his — that they have to go to China to see the future.”

是的，只要中国持续发展，走自己的路，那么中国就是未来。


NY TIMES上的英语原文