Periodically, however, Fukuyama turns his attention to contemporary America, and the picture he paints isn「t pretty.
然而,有时候,福山也会把注意力转移到当下的美国,不过在这方面,他所描绘的前景并不让人喜欢。
Over the years, Fukuyama has scampered across the world」s chalkboard like an intellectual chameleon.
多年来,福山象一条知识界的变色龙,游遍世界的版图。
(Neither Krauthammer nor Wolfowitz responded to repeated requests for their sides of the story.) 「No, 」 Fukuyama says, 「I have not talked with Wolfowitz since.」
(我们反复请求尔夫维茨和克劳萨默给出他们这边的故事,但他们未给予任何回应)「不,」福山说,「我和沃尔夫维茨再没说过话。」
Fukuyama has had the good grace and intellectual honesty to admit he was wrong.
福山出自他良好的品德和知识分子的诚实承认自己错了。
「All of these people around me were cheering wildly,」 Fukuyama remembers.
「我身边所有的人都在狂热地欢呼,」福山回忆道。
In conversation, as in his writings, Fukuyama is cool and understated.
在交谈中,就像在他的作品中一样,福山是一个冷静而言辞谨慎的人。
Not long after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Francis Fukuyama was just a green 27-year-old researcher at the RAND Corporation, the military-focused think tank.
1979年在苏联入侵阿富汗之后不久,弗朗西斯·福山还是兰德公司这一军事智库中年仅27岁的初级研究员。
Once upon a time, Fukuyama would have been part of the gang.
曾几何时,福山会是这帮人中的一员。
Fukuyama says he does not allow his children to drink milk in the first place, even before this incident or otherwise.
福山哲郎回应说,他从最初就不允许他的子女喝奶,甚至在这次事件发生之前,或是其他任何情况下。
The second scenario, Fukuyama suggests, is very likely closer to the truth.
福山指出,第二种情境非常接近真相。
After two decades in Washington, Francis Fukuyama joined Stanford University last year.
在华盛顿待了有20年之后,弗兰西斯·福山于去年加入了斯坦福大学。
In fact, Fukuyama never suggested that the 「end of history」 entailed the cessation of extreme violence or cataclysmic events.
事实上,福山从未指出过「历史的终结」意味着极端暴力和灾难性事件的终止。
Sitting in his corner office at Stanford, the shades drawn to fend off that California sun, Fukuyama glances at the chaotic piles of books surrounding him.
在他斯坦福大楼一角的办公室里,百叶窗挡住了加州的阳光,福山坐在那里环视着周围凌乱的书堆。
Fukuyama seems quite correct to grasp for this type of contingent theory, but I think he is wrong to believe that it cannot be formulated much more systematically, even mathematically.
Fukuyama看起来比较正确的把握了这种偶然性的理论,但是我想他错误的认为这种偶然性不可能被一种更系统的,甚至数学的,的框架来描述。
Actually, after 22 years in Washington, Fukuyama has escaped to Stanford.
事实上,在华盛顿居住了22年之后,福山逃到了斯坦福。