1.Ideas should not be suppressed, but nor should they be worshipped. Kennan was right to call "Gulag" a powerful indictment of a regime.
思想不应该被压制，也不应该被崇拜，凯南将“古拉格”成为对一个政体的强有力的控告也没错。
2.The best account of Kennan's life as an outsider on the inside is his own two-volume "Memoirs" .
凯南所写的《自传》（分上下两册）最为详尽地描述了凯南作为一个知道内情的局外人的一生。
3.Kennan was a prophet without a following -- at least within the U. S. government.
凯南是一位无人追随的先知-至少在美国政府内应者寥寥。
4.After the "Long Telegram" , Kennan returned to Washington and founded the State Department's influential Policy Planning Staff.
“长电报”之后，凯南回到华盛顿，建立了美国国务院影响重大的“国务院思想库”。
5.Kennan's advice to his own country -- to begin unilateral disarmament -- belongs to the same category.
凯南对他自己国家的建议----开始单方面裁军----也是一样。
6.Even Kennan felt sorry for "poor John" ; in 2003 he lamented the "serious burden" of his own "unnatural longevity" .
凯南甚至为“可怜的约翰”感到惋惜；2003年，凯南哀惋他自己“违背自然规律的长寿”为一种“严肃的负担”。
7.America's adversary was not, Mr. Kennan insisted, a global force called Communism; it was Russia, an expansionist but conservative power.
美国的对手不是所谓的共产主义的全球势力；它是苏联，一个扩张又保守的大国。
8.In a September 2002 interview, a 98-year-old Kennan described Bush's talk of a pre-emptive war against Iraq as "a great mistake. "
在2002年9月的一次采访中，他还把布什对伊拉克发动的“先发制人”打击形容为“巨大的错误”。
9.Kennan's formula for victory was economic aid fostering political stability in countries potentially vulnerable to communism's siren song.
而凯南制定的获胜方针是在可能受到共产主义蛊惑的国家中，施以经援，让他们保持政治稳定。
10.These events make George Kennan's containment theory look a bit dated though it did work acceptably at the time, some 55 to 60 years ago.
这些事件使得乔治凯南的遏制理论有点月虽然没有工作，在可以接受的时间，大约55至60年前。