Third, unlike many other dictatorships, Myanmar has held an election, and lost it comprehensively. 第三,不同于其他许多专制国家,缅甸曾举行过一次大选,后来再也没有了。
Rather, we cannot know partly because few of us have spent much time learning about Arab countries, partly because we usually ask only one question about Arabs, and partly because seeing inside these dictatorships is impossible. 相反,我们之所以无知,部分原因在于我们当中很少有人曾花时间了解阿拉伯国家,部分在于我们对阿拉伯人通常只问一个问题,另一部分在于我们不可能看到这些专政国家内部的情形。
Certainly in the past one hundred years there have been continuing dictatorships that have suppressed millions by wielding absolute authority. 毫无疑问,在过去的一百年中,出现过持续不断的专制政体,通过行使绝对权力而压迫天下百姓。
Overthrowing the dictatorships and monarchies of the Middle East was long his central goal, but the Arab revolutions were not the kind he had envisioned. 推翻中东的绝对的独裁和专制是他的梦寐以求的目标,但是阿拉伯的反抗出乎他的意料。