This year, optimists might therefore seek comfort in the prevailing fashion at the 2009 World Economic Forum for participants to eclipse the previous speaker with an ever more doom-laden prognosis. But those looking for cheer amid the gloom should take a moment to cast their minds back to one recent Davos prediction that has undoubtedly come true. In January 2006 Tim Adams, then the US Treasury's top international affairs official, spent his time defending the US from its detractors.
因此,今年乐观人士或许要从2009年世界manbetx20客户端下载 论坛(World Economic Forum)的流行风尚中寻求安慰——与会者用越来越令人绝望的预测,令上一位发言者黯然失色。但那些希望在一片悲观中寻求鼓舞的人们应花一点时间,回想一下达沃斯近来一个无疑已应验的预言。2006年1月,面对指责美国的人们,时任美国财政部主管国际事务副部长的蒂姆•亚当斯(Tim Adams)坚持为美国辩护。