TED演讲:在危机中前行(10)

 Take Canada: when Trudeau took office, he faced two looming¹ dangers. 就加拿大而言，当特鲁多就任时，面临两大潜在的危险。

First, though his vast, underpopulated country, badly needed more bodies, 首先，尽管他这个地广人稀的国家，非常需要更多的劳动力

its preferred source for white workers, Europe, 但它首选的白人劳动力来源地欧洲

had just stopped exporting them as it finally recovered from World War II. 却随着自身从二战中恢复过来而停止了劳动力的出口。

The other problem was that Canada's long cold war 另一个问题是加拿大国内的法语群体 

between its French and its English communities had just become a hot one. 和英语群体之间的长期冷战也变成了热战

Quebec was threatening to secede², 魁北克威胁着要独立

and Canadians were actually killing³ other Canadians over politics. 并且加拿大人在政治上互相伤害

Now, countries face crises all the time. Right? That's nothing special. 国家总是面临危机，对吧？这没什么特别的

But Trudeau's genius was to realize that Canada's crisis 但是特鲁多的天才之处是意识到加拿大的危机 

had swept away all the hurdles⁴ that usually block reform. 正好扫清了阻碍改革的所有障碍。

Canada had to open up. It had no choice. 加拿大需要开放，对此它别无选择

And it had to rethink its identity. Again, it had no choice. 并且它需要重新思考自己的国家形象。而这也是别无选择的

And that gave Trudeau a once-in-a-generation opportunity to break the old rules and write new ones. 这就给了特鲁多一个千载难逢的机会去打破旧规则并书写新规则

And like all our other heroes, he was smart enough to seize it. 像所有其他的英雄一样，他聪明地抓住了机会。

1 looming   

n.上现蜃景（光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼）v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• The foothills were looming ahead through the haze. 丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Then they looked up. Looming above them was Mount Proteome. 接着他们往上看，在其上隐约看到的是蛋白质组山。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望

2 secede   

v.退出，脱离

参考例句：

• They plotted to make the whole Mississippi Valley secede from the United States.他们阴谋策划使整个密西西比流域脱离美国。
• We won't allow Tibet to secede from China and become an independent nation.我们决不允许西藏脱离中国独立。

3 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 hurdles   

n.障碍( hurdle的名词复数 )；跳栏；（供人或马跳跃的）栏架；跨栏赛

参考例句：

• In starting a new company, many hurdles must be crossed. 刚开办一个公司时，必须克服许多障碍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• There are several hurdles to be got over in this project. 在这项工程中有一些困难要克服。 来自辞典例句