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Who will speak up for international capitalism? Governments and businesses. What a pity that is! These supposed defenders of glo

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问题      Who will speak up for international capitalism? Governments and businesses. What a pity that is! These supposed defenders of globalization may do more to undermine support for it than the critics.
     【61】 Rich-country governments generally present economic integration to voters as an unfortunate but inescapable fact of life: as a constraint, that is, on their freedom of action. For the past ten years, this has been the favorite excuse of any government about to break an election promise.
     Multinational businesses, for their part, with their enlightened mission, statements, progressive stakeholder strategies, flower-motive logos and 57-point pledges of" corporate social responsibility", implicitly say that they have a case to answer: capitalism without responsibility is bad. That sounds all right; the trouble is, when they start talking about how they will no longer put profits first, people (rightly) think they are lying. 【62】 If, as these defenders of economies without borders lead you to conclude, global capitalism is a cause of democratic paralysis and a cloak for old-fashioned corporate bribery, even instinctive liberals ought to side with skeptics.
     【63】 With advocates like these on either side of the globalization debate--governments and businesses in favor, angry and uncompromising protesters against; it is natural that the general public stands firmly in support of neither. It has no deep commitment to international capitalism, but it can see no plausible alternative. Certainly, the protesters do not appear to be offering one. So people are mostly puzzled, anxious and suspicious. This climate of opinion is bad for democracy and bad for economic development.
    This survey offers a few suggestions for a more purposeful kind of discussion. It would be foolish to suppose that consensus will ever be possible. Some of the persons with the doubtful attitudes are opposed not just to globalization or even to the market economy but to the very idea of economic growth. 【64】 That view has the virtue of coherence, at least, but it is unlikely in the foreseeable future to command a large following.
     Nonetheless, among all their weak arguments, dangerous good intentions and downright foolish notions, the persons with the doubtful attitudes are hiding some important points. 【65】 Clarifying what makes sense in the skeptics’ case, and exposing the mistaken or dishonest arguments that politicians and businessmen are putting up against them, may serve some purpose. And a clearer understanding of the arguments for globalization, of the problems it solves as well as the problem it creates, may help as well.
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答案弄清楚持怀疑态度者们意见中的合理之处，并揭露那些政客和商人反驳他们时所用的错误和虚伪的论据，这可能是有好处的。
解析 本句为两个并列动名词短语作主语的复合句。句子主干是Clarifying....and expo sing．．．may serve．．。其中what引导的从句做clarifying的宾语，而that引导的宾语从句修饰exposing；句子的谓语是may serve，宾语是some purpose。此外，还要理解that宾语从句中的them指代的内容——skeptics。最后，还要灵活翻译may serve some purpose，不能直译为“服务、达到目的”，此处为“有些帮助，有些好处”。
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