考研英语阅读：蔡英文电联特朗普不必过度解读

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　Friday’s phone call between Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen and US President-elect Donald Trump, which broke the nearly four decades of US diplomatic practice, came as a striking move but it does not bear the same importance as it seems to be.
　　周五台湾领导人蔡英文和美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普之间的电话通话，打破了近四十年的美国外交惯例，这是个引人注目的举动，但其实没有其看上去那么重要。
　　For Trump, it exposed nothing but his and his transition team’s inexperience in dealing with foreign affairs. If he could make the unusual action due to lack of proper understanding of Sino-US relations and cross-Straits ties he will have to recognize the significance of prudently and appropriately addressing these sensitive issues after being inaugurated.
　　对于特朗普来说，这正体现了他和他的过渡团队在处理外交事务上缺乏经验。如果由于缺乏对中美关系和两岸关系的正确理解，他采取了不寻常的行动，那么在此之后，他将必须认识到审慎和适当地处理这些敏感问题的意义。
　　As US president, Trump undoubtedly shoulders responsibility to safeguard the interests of his country, which includes a healthy relationship with China. To do that, he cannot afford to damage the one-China policy, which has been maintained every US administration since 1979 to serve as the political foundation for bilateral ties.
　　作为美国总统，特朗普无疑肩负着维护国家利益的责任，包括与中国的良好关系。为了做到这一点，他不能破坏1979年以来每任美国政府都坚持的一个中国政策，这是两国关系的政治基础。
　　As one of his Tweet posts shows, Trump knows the fact that "I should not accept a congratulatory call" although the US sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment. Whether in his position as a businessman or US president, Trump should also know that amount of money doesn’t mean he can sacrifice US ties with China, the US’ largest trade partner with a bilateral trade volume of $558 billion in 2015, as well as the biggest holder of US treasury bonds of more than $3 trillion.
　　正如他的一条推特所说，特朗普知道“我不应该接受一个祝贺电话”，虽然美国卖给台湾数十亿美元的军事装备。特朗普不管是作为商人还是美国总统，都应该知道，这笔钱并不意味着他可以牺牲美国与中国的关系，中国是2015年美国最大的贸易伙伴，双边贸易额为5580亿美元，也是美国国债的最大持有人，超过3万亿美元。
　　For Tsai, the phone call, a "petty gambit" as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called it, will bring nothing substantial but illusionary pride. If she managed to divert public outcry from her bad performance, she will not succeed. Tsai has to face the cold reality of a sagging approval rate and economic woes on the island after the media craze over the incident vanishes.
　　对于蔡英文，这个来电正如中国外交部长王毅所说的“小游戏”，除了幻想的自豪感，不会带来任何实质性的东西。如果她设法转移公众对她不良表现的抗议，她将不会成功。该事的媒体炒作冷却过后，蔡英文必须面对认同感下跌和台湾经济困难的冷酷现实。
　　It would be a mistake if Tsai and her administration over-interpret the meaning of the phone call and believe it can induce a change in the US long-standing one-China policy. Actually, after the news of the phone call broke out, Ned Price, the White House National Security Council spokesman, assured on Friday evening that Washington remains firmly committed to the one China policy, which has been in place despite ups and downs in Sino-US ties. Given the strongest economic and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries at present, there is no reason for the Trump administration to break away from it.
　　如果蔡英文和她的政府过度解释电话的意思，并相信它可能导致美国长期的一个中国政策发生变化，那将是一个错误。事实上，在打电话的消息爆发后，白宫国家安全委员会发言人Ned Price于周五晚上保证，华盛顿仍坚定认同一个中国的政策，在中美关系的起伏动荡中历来如此。鉴于目前两国的经济和人民之间的最强烈的交流这一现实，特朗普政府没有理由摆脱它。
　　Tsai should know the US’ fundamental interest lies in peaceful and stable cross-Straits ties rather than the pro-independence push of her Democratic Progressive Party. If she continues to stir tensions in cross-Straits relations, any attempt to win US support will be doomed, as demonstrated by her DPP predecessor Chen Shui-bian between 2000 and 2008, no matter how many tricks she may try.
　　蔡英文应该知道美国的根本利益在于和平稳定的两岸关系，而不是其民进党所推进的亲独立。如果她继续在两岸关系中引起紧张，任何试图赢得美国支持的企图都将注定失败，无论她尝试多少招数，民进党前任陈水扁在2000年至2008年间已经表明了这一点。
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