In three speeches in Prague, Cairo and Accra, he set out a new foreign policy that rejects the Manichean view of his predecessor.
在布拉格、开罗和阿克拉的三场演讲中,他提出了新的外交政策,拒绝了前任总统的摩尼教观点。
But because we, and our leaders, retreated into a Manichean fantasy, we understood the new complexities of the real world even less.
然而,由于我们,还有我们的领袖们,退避到了一种明暗对分的二元论幻想之中,就更加无法理解现实世界里产生的新的复杂性。
This Manichean split amounts to a 「travesty of history and memory」.
摩尼教的分歧导致了一个「对历史和记忆的嘲笑」。
President George Bush's Manichean worldview - 「you are either with us or against us」 -is now echoed in Bangkok by those who see the red shirts as terrorists in the pay of Mr Thaksin.
小布什非黑即白的「摩尼教世界观」——「要么在我们这边,要么在恐怖分子一边」——在曼谷得到了一些人的响应,他们认为「红衫军」是他信雇来的恐怖分子。
The human fascination with fire has a Manichean quality.
那些对火着迷的人有一种摩尼教的特性。
This Manichean view of things is comforting in a time of multipolar chaos, but doesn’t describe the world any more.
在多极化乱世之日,这种摩尼教的世界观(参见译注4)令人安慰,但再也无法描述这个世界了。