新德里 — — 18天来，随着抗议活动的起起落落，没人能够想到埃及革命的结尾会来得如此突然，不过是一则不到半分钟的简短公告。
NEW DELHI – For 18 days, during the ebb and flow of protest, it did not seem possible that the end of the Egyptian Revolution would come so suddenly, in a terse announcement that lasted no more than a half-minute: “President Hosni Mubarak has relinquished office….”