当我以前在高盛和同事们开始追踪金砖四国经济体（巴西，俄罗斯，印度和中国）在21世纪初的崛起时，我们认为中国要到2015年底才会赶上中国日本。
When my former Goldman Sachs colleagues and I first started tracking the rise of the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) in the early 2000s, we figured that it would take until the end of 2015 just for China to catch up to Japan.