文筆好不好，只讀一小段：英文尋章摘句（2）

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Classically, the most dangerous moment for an autocratic system is when it tries to reform itself. For all the obloquy heaped upon the Spanish Empire, much of it deserved, it can only be described as spectacularly successful. It was mostly at peace; it provided Spain with vast wealth-nine-tenth of Spanish-American exports to Spain were in silver and gold, accounting for around half of all the bullion circulating in the world at the time; and altogether it survived for three hundred years---longer than any European empire save that of Ancient Rome. Although administered brutally and exploitatively, it was governed effectively. Uprisings like that of Tupac Amaru II were crushed so easily as to suggest that it would endure indefinitely. Yet the fact that they occurred at all gave a measure of underlying discontent.

這一段講述的是西班牙帝國(guó)鼎盛時(shí)期的簡(jiǎn)況：富得流油、殘酷壓榨其在中、南美洲的殖民地，那里物產(chǎn)豐富，坐擁金礦銀礦。西班牙帝國(guó)的統(tǒng)治是殘暴、掠奪性的，但卻是有效的，在相當(dāng)一段時(shí)期內(nèi)，那里是平靜的。當(dāng)那里獨(dú)立的浪潮真正揭開(kāi)的時(shí)候，西班牙帝國(guó)已經(jīng)在那里統(tǒng)治了300多年，類(lèi)似的統(tǒng)治在歐洲，之前只有羅馬帝國(guó)可以做到。

這段文字凝練、概括，也不失提點(diǎn)，比如第一句上來(lái)就提到當(dāng)暴政開(kāi)始改革的時(shí)候，也就是它最危險(xiǎn)的時(shí)候。然后話(huà)鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，講述在西班牙帝國(guó)的鐵腕治下，中南美洲的富庶和平靜，對(duì)這三百年的統(tǒng)治有了一個(gè)至少在“造富”上面的肯定。文末，舉了一個(gè)被快速鎮(zhèn)壓下去的反叛，讓人覺(jué)得西班牙帝國(guó)的統(tǒng)治將千秋萬(wàn)代下去，而這個(gè)造反本身，已經(jīng)顯示出隱沒(méi)的不滿(mǎn)正在生成。