THE NEXT DECADE

Question 1

temptation

There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8-Ball.

Answer 1

魅惑

Question 2

compelling

Well-researched and compelling.

Answer 2

人の心をつかんで離さない

説得力のある

Question 3

numerous

as well as numerous articles on national securities,

Answer 3

おびただしい

非常に多くの

Question 4

sacred

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
-Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 4

神聖な

Question 5

shun

I am not someone who shuns power.

Answer 5

避ける，回避する

Question 6

appalling

It is ironical, in many ways appalling, that what the founders gave us now faces this dilemma.

Answer 6

驚愕の，ぞっとする

Question 7

constraint

Nations become what they are through the constraint of history.

Answer 7

制約，強制

Question 8

presidency

Answer 8

国家主席，最高会議

Question 8

preference

Answer 8

好み，優先傾向

Question 9

genuinly

This is genuinly unclear to me.

Answer 9

誠実に，真に

Question 11

Machiavellian

Answer 11

マキアヴェリ的な、政策に長けた、目的のために手段を選ばない

Question 11

embody
institution

It is the single institution embodies by a single person.

Answer 11

具体化する

制度，慣例

Question 12

undermine
profoundly

The third is Ronald Reagan, who undermined the Soviet Union and set the stage for empire. Each of them was a profoundly normal man…

Answer 12

徐々に弱体化させる

深く，心から，多いに

Question 14

reconcile
duplicity
righteousness
redeem

reconcile duplicity and righteousness in order to the promis of America.

Answer 14

調整する，一致させる
不誠実な行為，二枚舌
正しさ，公正
回復する，取り戻す

Question 15

degree
ruthlessness
abide

The theme of this book, applied of refions of the world, is that justice comes from power, and power is only possible from degree of ruthlessness most of us can’t abide.

Answer 15

度合い
無慈悲
守る

Question 16

contradictry

Answer 16

相反する，矛盾する，正反対の

Question 17

swell

swelling rank of the unemployed,

Answer 17

増える

Question 17

deteriorate

Answer 17

悪化する，退化する，衰退する

Question 19

loom

which event loomed so large in the media and public mind,

Answer 19

ぼんやりと不気味に現れる

Question 20

as with

China as with Japan

Answer 20

と同様に

Question 21

experiencing

only major nation not experiencing a financial crisis,

Answer 21

経験する

Question 22

regime

Answer 22

政治体制

Question 23

junta

Answer 23

暫定軍事政権

Question 24

jell

Answer 24

具現化させる

Question 25

unrest

Answer 25

不安，動揺

Question 26

constitutional democracy

Answer 26

立憲主義的民主主義

Question 27

yearn

The Arab world is the Arab world, and it does not yearn to be remade in the image of Europe and America.

Answer 27

切望する

Question 28

precisely

Answer 28

正確に

Question 29

delegitimation

The single most important consequence of the global financial crisis was the delegitimation of authority of financial elite,

Answer 29

失墜，無力感

Question 30

intervene

Answer 30

介入する

Question 31

implication

Answer 31

密接な関係

Question 32

wield

Answer 32

行使する，振りかざす

Question 33

precious

Answer 33

高価な，重要な

Question 34

impersonal

I wrote The Next 100 Years to explore the impersonal forces in the long run,

Answer 34

非人間的，人格を持たない

Question 35

torrent of

Each decision is lost in torrent of judgment that makes up century.

Answer 35

連発，続発

Question 35

statemanship

Answer 35

政治家としての心構え

Question 36

skew
otherwise
inevitable

to skew outcomes that otherwise might inevitable.

Answer 36

歪める
さもなければ
避けられない

Question 38

pivot

the global system pivots around the U.S.

Answer 38

旋回する，中心，軸