But any such talk immediately raises the spectres of iraq and afghanistan .

但一谈到“维稳部队”，伊拉克和阿富汗的幽灵便会立即浮现。

Nor are the more recent spectres of the evil empire laid to rest .

近些年并没有多少关于那个邪恶帝国的幽灵般记忆被埋葬。

Yet islamism is but one of three spectres that haunt the future of arab democracy ; the others are the sectarianism and populism .

然而，伊斯兰主义只是阿拉伯民主之路上出没的三大幽灵之一；其它两个分别是宗派主义和民粹主义。

Ghosts , spectres , apparitions , phantoms , spooks-whether you believe in them or not , ghosts have been a part of human consciousness since writing began .

鬼魂、幽灵、鬼魅、鬼影、鬼怪，无论你信不信它们，自有文字以来鬼魂一直是人类意识的一部分。

Yet the best insurance against the three spectres of islamism , sectarianism and populism is that the young arabs who drove these revolutions did not risk their lives to embrace new tyrannies or social divisions or imbibe old snake oil .

然而，推动民主革命的阿拉伯青年们并没有冒着生命危险去拥抱和接受新的专制政权或社会分裂，也没有用上什么古传的狗皮膏药，这是抵御伊斯兰主义、宗派主义和民粹主义三大幽灵的最佳保障。