A former adviser to the US military in Afghanistan and Washington, Chayes skewers US readiness to support kleptocrats in exchange for "counterterrorism co-operation."

Chayes takes her thesis on the road, journeying through the Maghreb amid the Arab uprisings and charting systems of rule-by-theft.

蔡斯在书中娓娓道来，她叙述了阿拉伯起义期间马格利布的情形，她描绘了盗贼统治的种种体制。

What becomes clear from Chayes" recollections is that former Afghan president Hamid Karzai's government abandoned national stewardship for self-enrichment.

蔡斯这本回忆录清楚地表明，前阿富汗总统哈米德•卡尔扎伊（Hamid Karzai）政府为了敛财而荒废了国家治理。

Chayes depicts a secret CIA agenda "enabling the very summit of Afghanistan's kleptocracy."

蔡斯描述了中情局（CIA）的一个秘密议程，这个议程“帮助阿富汗盗贼统治到达巅峰”。

We hear few such voices from Chayes.

我们在蔡斯的书中很少看到这种言论。

His words go to the heart of Sarah Chayes" argument in Thieves of State: that graft begets insecurity.

他的话呼应了萨拉•蔡斯（Sarah Chayes）所著《窃国者》（Thieves of State）一书的中心思想：腐败造成安全威胁。

She feasted her eyes on the beautiful painting.

她饱览了这美丽的图画.

He fixed his eyes on us without saying a word.

他注视着我们,一句话也不说.

He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.

他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题.

He felt her eyes on him.

他感觉到她在看着他。

Yessir, she was beautiful.

的确，她很漂亮。

Yessir, she was beautiful.

的确，她很漂亮。

But he denied before them all , saying, I know not what thou sayest.

70彼得在众人面前却不承认, 说, 我不知道你说的是什么.

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

伯22:13你说 、 神知道甚麽. 他岂能看透幽暗施行审判 呢 .

And she said unto her , All that thou sayest unto me I will do.

得3:5路得说 、 凡你所吩咐的我必遵行.

Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

摩西在律法上吩咐我们, 把这样的妇人用石头打死.你说该把他怎么样 呢 .

And he answered and said, Thou sayest it.

耶稣回答说 、 你说的是.

Thou sayest, Men cannot admire the sharpness of thy wits.

你说, 人们无法赞美你智慧的锐利.

Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

3你使人归于尘土, 说, 你们世人要归回.

Backward to the settlement , thou sayest!

你会说,是返回居民区的!

" Oh, yes, that was a man asking directions. "

“ 噢, 是的, 那是有个人问路. ”