A schoolchild looking at the outlines of South America and Africa on the world map may intuitively fit the puzzle together, and behold—the principle of continental drift.

總之，與南斯拉夫所進行的戰爭消弱了北約塑造自己是歐洲所有國家和前蘇聯所屬共和國的永久性慷慨饋贈的形象，北約向這些國家提供數量慎重考慮而定的戰略和軍事物資。

In short, the war with Yugoslavia was compromised NATO’s ability to present itself as an endlessly bountiful distributor of strategic and military gifts, in carefully measured does, to all manner of European nations and ex-Soviet republics.

令哈里·杜魯門總統尷尬的是，最初的（北大西洋）條約是在華盛頓格什溫的歌曲《我一無所得》的旋律中簽署的。

The original Washington treaty, to the embarrassment of President Harry Truman, was signed to the strains of a Gershwin song called “I’ve got plenty of nothing.”