Mr. Reagan will find that time does some of the work for him, as Europeans come to realise in 1981 what struck most Americans as fairly obvious a year or two earlier.

• 当欧洲人在1981年也认清了大多数美国人在一、二年前早已觉得相当明显的事情时，里根先生就会觉得时间对他还是有所裨益的。