81A-5-387
By 1945, F.D.R.'s body was on the verge of collapse. His hands shook his clothes hung off his emaciated frame. He spent his final months trying to entrench the U.S. in the newly created United Nations, so that even when Americans realized that the postwar world was not living up to their hopes, they could not flee from it. In this effort there is no way to sugarcoat it he lied. He told Congress that at Yalta he and his fellow leaders had put an end to spheres of influence when, in fact, they had presided over the creation of one. On April 12, while posing for a portrait, F.D.R. suffered a massive stroke and died a few hours later. Three months after his death, his dream was fulfilled: the Senate ratified American membership in the U.N., thus exorcising Wilson's ghost.
"I didn't say the result was good," commented F.D.R. to a State Department official after Yalta. "I said it was the best I could do." Therein lies perhaps F.D.R.'s greatest lesson for the foreign policy- makers of today. He understood in a way Wilson never did that we lack the power to make the world conform to our abstract principles and rational schemes.

A. 어휘
on the verge of ...의 직전에, 금방...하려고 하는. verge 가장자리, 경계.
collapse 붕괴. hang off 놓아주다, 떨어지다. emaciate 쇠약하게 하다.
entrench 확립하다, 참호로 방비하다. flee-fled-fled 달아나다.
sugarcoat 알약에 糖衣(당의)를 입히다, 겉을 잘 꾸미다. Congress 국회.
spheres of influence 세력 범위. preside over 主宰(주재)하다. portrait 초상화.
massive stroke 심한 뇌일혈. ratify 批准(비준)하다. exorcise 귀신을 몰아 내다.
State Department 國務省(국무성). official 관리. conform 들어맞게 하다, 순응하다.
abstract principles 추상적 원칙. rational 합리적인, 이성적인.

B. 구문
- in a way Wilson never
cf. in a way in which Wilson never did.
[Wilson이 결코 이해하지 못했던 방법으로]

81A-6-388
Since American taxpayers will only spend so much money and American parents will only sacrifice so many daughters and sons, we have to prioritize, making the world a bit less ugly where we can and accommodating it where we must. Often we will have to enlist the help of nasty characters like Stalin in the fight against Hitler or Iran in the struggle against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to confront the gravest threats. Trying to remain morally pure will only permit even greater evil.
But that need not mean that we stop talking in moral terms. F.D.R. spoke eloquently of the world he hoped to see, even as he ruthlessly adapted himself to the one in which he actually lived. Perhaps that came naturally to a man who insisted against all evidence that he would one day walk again. We live in the world as it is and dream of the world that might one day be and consider ourselves fortunate to have reduced, even modestly, the distance between the two.

Beinart is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

A. 어휘
sacrifice 희생하다. prioritize 우선 순위를 매기다. accommodate 적응하다.
nasty 징그러운, 비열한. confront 맞서다. grave 험악한, 심상치 않은, 엄숙한.
morally pure 도덕적으로 순수한. terms 입장, 조건.
eloquently 웅변적으로, 감명적으로, 표현이 풍부하게. ruthlessly 무자비하게.
adapt 적응시키다. evidence 증거. reduce 축소하다. modestly 적당하게, 겸손하게.
fellow 특별연구원.

B. 구문
- we have to prioritize . . . accommodating it where we must.
[우리는 우선순위를 정해서 우리 능력으로 할 수 있으면 세상을 조금 덜 추악하게 만들려고 노력하고 우리의 능력 밖의 일이라면 있는 그대로 받아들이면서 세상에 적 응하도록 해야한다.]
- he would one day walk again.
[그는 언젠가는 다시 걷게 될 것이다.(루주벨트 대통령은 소아마비를 앓아서 다리가 불편하였다.)]
- We live in the world as it is . . . the distance between the two.
cf. to have reduced→if we have reduced
[우리는 있는 그대로의 세계에 살면서 언젠가는 존재하게 될지도 모르는 세계를 꿈꾸고 두 세계 사이의 거리를 조금이라도 축소시킬 수 있었다면 퍽 다행스럽게 생각한다.]