1-wisdom 一般观点，普遍看法

2-meltdown 崩溃

Before 2008, the conventional western wisdom had been that sooner or later China would suffer a big economic meltdown.

3-pertain to 关于

This is the story, as pertaining to the last decade, of the most remarkable economic transformation in human history.

4-come to terms with 勉强接受，对……妥协

5-kaleidoscope 万花筒

6-dismissal 不屑

Unsurprisingly the west is finding the phenomenon difficult to come to terms with, displaying a kaleidoscope of emotions from denial, dismissal and condemnation to respect, appreciation and admiration, though there is presently much more of the former than the latter.

7-match 比得上

The west believed that China would for long remain essentially defined by imitation, unable to match the west's capacity for innovation.

8-formidably 强大地

But China has proven itself to have formidably innovative economy.

9-rival 与……不相上下

10-in the same league 在同一等级，梯队

Shenzhen has come to rival Silicon Valley _ while Huawei, Tencent and Alibaba can be counted in the same league with Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon.

11-replica 复制品，翻版

12-deteriorate 恶化

As US-China relations continue to deteriorate, and begin to look like a new cold war, it will be no replica of the last cold war.

13-patently 显然

Then, the US was on the rise, the USSR in decline: this time the US is patently in decline and China very much on the rise.

14-equivalent 对应物

15-restrain 克制

China has historically never been competed as a military power and its rise-compared with the aggressive expansion of the UK, US, France and Germany in their equivalent stages of development-has been remarkably restrained.

16-fragmentation 分裂

17-centric 以……为中心

The next decade will see a continuing fragmentation of western-centric international system, together with the growing influence of Chinese-oriented institutions.

18-fraught 令人焦虑的，让人担忧的

The process will be uneven, unpredictable and, at times, fraught- but ultimately irresistible.