If you had caught me straight out of college in the halls of the Vermont State House where I was a lobbyist in training and asked me what I was going to do with my life, I would have told you that I'd just passed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the Chinese equivalency exam, and I was going to go study law in Beijing, and I was going to improve U.S.-China relations through top-down policy changes and judicial system reforms.
제가 대학을 갓 졸업하고 버몬트 주 의사당에서 로비스트가 되는 교육을 받던 당시에 누가 저보고 일생 동안 뭘 하겠냐고 물었다면, 저는 아마도 방금 중국어능력검정시험(HSK)을 통과했으니까 북경에가서 법학을 공부하고 중국의 정책을 상의하달식으로 바꾸고, 중국의 사법제도를 개혁해서 미중관계를 개선하겠다고 대답했을지도 모르죠.