1. 原文中作者已经做出声明：

I ought to make explicit what should already have been obvious to all but the most determinedly obtuse: in this entire series of lectures I am speaking for no one but myself.

2. 原文说： On occasion, Chinese diplomats even seem to have perversely gone out of their way to accentuate rather than assuage anxieties. 

纽约时报的报道说：

（Kausikan）　said that Chinese diplomats “perversely” often go out of their way to “accentuate rather than assuage anxieties.”