首先，当下一次欧元区危机爆发时，美国得把紧口风；毕竟，关门的场景所暴露出来的病症之严重一点都不亚于过去五年中欧盟经济和政治谈判所体现的。
First, the next time the eurozone crisis flares up, the US will simply have to bite its tongue; after all, the shutdown spectacle revealed pathologies no less severe than those that have characterized the European Union’s economic and political negotiations over the past five years.