接着，在20世纪80年代，日本强劲的增长让一些人预测它将超过美国 — — 不仅是人均水平，也包括某些衡量“经济实力”的指标。
Later, in the 1980’s, Japan’s spectacular growth led some to predict that it would overtake the US, not only in per capita terms, but even in terms of some measures of “economic power.”