Early on Mr Emmott notes the spooky parallels between now and the early 1990s, when Italy's economic problems first became apparent.

早先埃默特先生就注意到20世纪九十年代早期与现在竟是令人毛骨悚然的相似，都是意大利经济问题开始显现的时候。

Fortunately, as Bill Emmott notes in this book, Italy has since last November had a technocratic cabinet led by Mario Monti that is the country's first reforming government in years.

就像比尔·埃默特在书里写的那样，幸运的是，自去年十一月马里奥·蒙蒂组建了一届技术型专家内阁，且是多年来首届改革型政府。

Mr Emmott, who was editor-in-chief of this newspaper from 1993 to 2006, has made Italy one of his specialist subjects, inspired partly by libel battles with Mr Monti's predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi.

从1993年到2006年间埃默特先生一直是一家报纸的总编辑，还成立了意大利专题，个中部分原因是与蒙蒂总理的前任西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼的流言之斗。