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帶著問題聽講解

1、標題中“legacy”是什麼意思

2、文中人們關對默克爾的評價分為哪幾種

3、關於標題，文中是否給出了結論

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Angela Merkel's legacy(遺產、後果): has she saved or destroyed Europe?

Angela Merkel’s approach（方法） to a problem, wrote one of her biographers, is “to sit it out”. Rather than（而不是）

entertain（v，考慮） grand ideas of a “historic mission” or “strategic vision”, she aims to “solve today’s problems, in a way that ensures she stays in power”.

The German chancellor, once described by Forbes as the world’s most powerful woman, managed（做到）  that for 13 years. She has been measured（慢而穩）

, cautious（謹慎）, methodical（有條理的）, pragmatic（務實的）, sometimes maddeningly noncommittal（觀點不明朗的） and seemingly always in control.

But this week, weakened by plummeting polls, an unpopular and ineffective（不得民心） coalition（聯盟）, dire（糟糕的） performances in recent state elections and increasingly acrimonious（激烈的）

in-fighting（內訌） among her centre-right alliance, she conceded defeat.

She is, her defenders says, a fundamentally（本質） decent（正直的） politician who fought for democratic values; whose civil, level-headed persona（形象） represents all that the posturing populists（民粹主義者） now challenging（威脅） Europe’s unity in countries like Hungary and Italy – and the one in the White House – do not.

Others, however, are not so sure. “Much of what we think we know about Merkel is either spin（偏袒性的報道） or speculation（猜測）,” says Hans Kundnani, senior research fellow at Chatham House. “The extraordinary thing is, after 13 years in the chancellery（總理職位） we still don’t really know who she is.”

Merkel’s hard line on enforcing austerity（強制執行經濟縮減） was popular in Germany but almost certainly helped fuel support for populist movements in southern Europe, while her 2015 open borders policy – based, Kundnani believes, as much on a misreading of German opinion as on compassion – boosted the German anti-immigration party.

“We don’t yet know,” says Kundnani, “whether Merkel will go down（被記錄） in history as the woman who destroyed Europe, or saved it.”

重點詞彙：

sit sth out：旁觀一件事，直到結束 

mad someone 讓某人發瘋，激怒某人；maddeningly 令人惱火的

conceded：勉強承認

weakened by sth：因為某事而變得脆弱

plummeting polls：驟然下跌的民意調查

level-headed ：冷靜，明智的

posture:故作姿態的

 enforce：執行

fuel：n，燃料，v，煽動

based as much on a as on b：基於a和b兩個依據