联系英中翻译：美国对中国的外交政策

原文：Amy Zegart 6月8日在《大西洋》杂志出版的文章。

英中翻译很难，中美关系也很复杂。如果有兴趣，请帮我修改我的翻译 ：）

There has lots of friends has corrected your translation. I'll do a new one on my own. You can compare them.

"Decades of being wrong about China should teach us something"

我们应当从对中国的数十年误判中学到些经验

American analysts keep trying to fit the country into familiar patterns—ignoring the many ways in which it’s an exception.

美国分析人士一直试图把中国代入熟悉的模型里，反复忽略中国与这些模型截然不同。

China has defied, and continues to defy, the odds and predictions of experts. The fact is that generations of American policy makers, political scientists, and economists have gotten China wrong more often than they’ve gotten China right. In domestic politics, economic development, and foreign policy, China has charted a surprising path that flies in the face of professional prognostications, general theories about anything, and the experience of other nations.

中国正持续挑战专家们的预测和分析。事实上，华盛顿几代政客，政治和经济学者误判中国的次数比正确的次数还多。在内政，经济和外交领域，中国走出了一条完全超乎预料，无视常规理论，不同于其他国家的新路。

Today, as policy makers and commentators confidently assert that trade wars are easy to win or that hot wars with China are either impossible or inevitable, the experience of being proved wrong again and again should remind us that events will, more than likely, not turn out as predicted.

今天，当政客和评论家信心满满的断言，贸易战必将取胜，争论常规战不可能发生还是必然发生的时候。历史上的多次误判提醒我们，事情可能出乎我们的意料。

In the 1950s and ’60s, American policy toward China suffered because of the “monolithic communism” view that had captured U.S. foreign-policy circles. Although we now know that China and the Soviet Union had very different communist models and national interests—and that their relationship was exceptionally troubled—successive administrations in the United States put China and the Soviet Union into the same enemy camp. Not until the Nixon administration did the United States began normalizing relations with China in what would be one of the greatest diplomatic triumphs in American history. Had American leaders recognized and capitalized upon the Sino-Soviet split earlier, one wonders how history might have unfolded differently.

在上世纪50到60年代，受美国外交圈"共产主义一体化"思想的影响，美国的中国政策遇冷。尽管今天我们已经知道，中国和苏联有着截然不同的管理模式和国家利益，并且中苏关系当时存在许多问题。历任总统仍然将中苏放在同一个敌对阵营。直到尼克松总统，中美邦交才恢复正常化。这被视为美国外交史上最重要的成果之一。今天很难想象，如果美国领导人更早意识到中苏裂痕的存在，历史将会变成什么样。

This is amazing. I can almost translate it into Chinese newspaper report word by word. You sure it's written by an American?