正如我多年前在西班牙所做的那样，默克尔对独裁统治崩溃的反应是放弃物理投身公共服务，并最终使自己陷入了欧洲政治的漩涡之中。
Just as I had done in Spain a few years before, Merkel reacted to the collapse of the dictatorship she lived in by leaving physics to embrace public service. Eventually, she got caught up in the whirlwind of European politics.