This year started with thrilling hope and vaulting ambition in the Arab world, as a chain of uprisings toppled long-ruling tyrants: four down so far, in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, with the blood-drenched despot of Damascus surely not too far behind. But there has been much hand-wringing about how things are turning out: a string of Islamist election victories, especially in Egypt; a jostle for power and persisting instability accompanied (in Egypt and Syria) by sectarian flare-ups.
这一年在激动人心的希望中开始，带来希望的是阿拉伯世界：不满长期专制统治的阿拉伯各国人民终于揭竿而起，到目前为止已有4个国家（突尼斯、埃及、利比亚和也门）推翻了专制统治，那位双手沾满鲜血的“大马士革暴君”（指叙利亚总统巴沙尔•阿萨德——译者注）继续在位的时间也不会太长。但后来的事态发展又很令人紧张：伊斯兰主义政党在选举中取得了一个又一个胜利，特别是在埃及；权力的争夺带来社会动荡，教派冲突（在埃及和叙利亚）也时不时爆发。
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