en-us	It has been a month since Wuhan was locked down because of the coronavirus. 
zh-cn	武汉已封城一月之久，以战病毒之疫。 

en-us	Like a big push on a swing, the epidemic tips the balance in the world, and China is making efforts to keep standing. 
zh-cn	如秋千受力而摆，疫情让世界失衡。

en-us	The challenge lies in the country's size.  
zh-cn	中国正奋发图存。 

en-us	China is a big country with a large span, and the virus hit the center, literally.   
zh-cn	中国庞大的国土成为战疫的第一挑战。中国乃泱泱大国，而此次疫情直击其腹地要害。 

en-us	The epicenter is a metropolis of 16 million people in the middle of the country.  
zh-cn	疫情爆发于1600万人口的中部大都市武汉。 

en-us	To make matters worse, it is surrounded by many cities, also with millions of inhabitants.  
zh-cn	屋漏偏逢连夜雨，武汉周围城市众多，人口皆以百万计。 

en-us	Wuhan is a transport hub, and the virus is threatening to infect the whole surrounding are.  
zh-cn	武汉乃交通枢纽，疫情大有扩散至周边城市之势。 

en-us	The size of the country is a significant obstacle. 
zh-cn	疆土广阔反倒成为战疫的重大阻碍。 

en-us	But that's only half the story.  
zh-cn	但凡事有弊也有利。 

en-us	Because of its continental size, all the parts feed off each other. 
zh-cn	由于中国疆土广阔，不同地区得以相互接济。 

en-us	When Wuhan fell, the other provinces came to its aid.  
zh-cn	武汉告急之时，四面八方来援。 

en-us	As we speak, one-tenth of the intensive care doctors of the entire country is in Wuhan. 
zh-cn	此时此刻，全国十分之一的重症监护医生正奋战于武汉。 

en-us	A total of 40,000 medical staff moved to the center in a wartime fashion.  
zh-cn	4万余名医务人员应急响应，火速奔赴抗疫前线。 

en-us	China plans to take the virus full on. 
zh-cn	中国火力全开，应对疫情。 

en-us	Structure matters. 
zh-cn	体制之机。

en-us	Another weight on scale is messaging.  
zh-cn	战疫的另一关键在于信息传递。 

en-us	China has two-way traffic of communication: top-down and bottom-up. 
zh-cn	中国自有其独特的双向信息流动，自上而下和自下而上。 

en-us	China needs to do better bottom-up. 
zh-cn	中国需要改善信息自下而上的传导。 

en-us	When doctors in Wuhan sounded alarms of the new virus, the message got lost.  
zh-cn	武汉的八名医生于新型病毒爆发之初便发出警示，然而他们的声音却没有被重视,  

en-us	An investigation is still ongoing on why. 
zh-cn	国家监委调查组仍在调查事件真相。 

en-us	But one reason is obvious: there are too many layers,too much red tape, and too little incentives to send the messages up. 
zh-cn	但是有一点是肯定的：汇报层级过多，手续繁杂，缺乏信息上报动力。 

en-us	But China is strong when it comes to top-down messages.  
zh-cn	另一方面，中国自上而下的信息传导十分强大。 

en-us	When the leadership is on top of the problem, it has the willpower and wherewithal to make the call. And the grassroots answer. 
zh-cn	当领导层着手解决问题时，他们的意志和方法确保了使命必达，上一呼，下有应。 

en-us	China launched a people’s war.  
zh-cn	中国发起全民抗疫。 

en-us	That was exactly what was needed to deal with a traveling threat like an epidemic.  
zh-cn	中国需要这样的举措来应对传染性极强的疫情， 

en-us	China built two hospitals in 10 days, thousands of wards in a week, and shook the population into action. 
zh-cn	十天之内两家医院拔地而起，一周之内数千病房投入使用，全国人民纷纷投身抗疫行动。 

en-us	Top-down is fast and sharp. 
zh-cn	自上而下的信息传导快速而清晰。

en-us	Nobody should argue against efficiency, especially when what's at stake is a plague spreading. 
zh-cn	高效的行动无可非议，尤其在疫情蔓延的当下。  

en-us	But keeping the balance is hard.  
zh-cn	但是保持平衡实非易事。 

en-us	Every decision is a trade-off when it affects the lives of thousands and the livelihood of millions.  
zh-cn	每个决定的背后都有取舍，它会影响百姓生计，甚至攸关生死。 

en-us	We need to slow the spread.  
zh-cn	我们需要减缓疫情传播速度。 

en-us	Draconian quarantines are being enforced in many parts of the country.  
zh-cn	中国许多地区都在执行严格的检疫隔离。 

en-us	Maintain a large network of isolation and a low rate of rogue behavior is the answer; the question is that we still don’t know the exact extent of the infection.  
zh-cn	建立广泛的检疫隔离网络，减少违规行为固然是个好办法，问题是我们仍然不知道确切的疫情扩散范围。 

en-us	Isolating the infected while not infringing on people’s rights and decency is not an easy task. 
zh-cn	在不侵犯人们的权利和尊严的情况下有效隔离感染者困难重重。 

en-us	Our economy relies on human transaction, but epidemic control depends on social distancing.  
zh-cn	经济发展依赖于人与人的交往，但疫情防控要求人与人保持距离。 

en-us	We need to keep a distance, and yet we need to work together.  
zh-cn	我们需要保持一定距离，但我们也需要携手合作。 

en-us	So how do we balance saving lives and the saving economy? This is an issue that requires hard decision making. 
zh-cn	那么，我们如何在挽救生命和挽救经济之间取得平衡？每个决策都艰难无比。 

en-us	But the hardest decision is when to draw the line. 
zh-cn	但是，最艰难的决定是何时为疫情画上句号， 

en-us	With so little information on an adversary like the virus and so few weapons at our disposal, without treatment or vaccines,  
zh-cn	我们对病毒这个对手还知之甚少，工具箱中的手段寥寥无几，没有特效药，也没有疫苗。 

en-us	we are not able to answer the public's question: when does it end? 
zh-cn	眼前仍然无法回答公众的问题：疫情何时结束？ 

en-us	Before the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill described the war like this: victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,  
zh-cn	在第二次世界大战结束前夕，温斯顿·丘吉尔如此描述战争：不惜一切代价，去赢得胜利；无论多么恐怖，还是要赢得胜利； 

en-us	victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. 
zh-cn	无论道路多么遥远艰难也要赢得胜利；因为没有胜利，就是死路一条。 

en-us	Now, we are at war with a virus. 
zh-cn	现在，我们正在与疫情抗争。

en-us	And victory is still ahead of us.  
zh-cn	胜利依然可望却尚不及。 

en-us	Luckily, we still have a big country to fall back on, a world that lifts us, and a system that delivers results.  
zh-cn	幸运的是，我们身后有一个伟大的祖国，全世界都在声援我们，更有一个有担当重成效的体制。 

en-us	There will be more hard decisions to be made.  
zh-cn	未来会有更艰难的决定。 

en-us	In the end, we hope those will be the best choices, and we must be proud of them.
zh-cn	希望我们能做出最佳的选择，让自己无怨无悔。