America may have fondly imagined that its 1899 Open Door policy toward China, to which the other powers gave lip service, had stayed the process of division.

• 美国可能天真地认为，是它的1899年门户开放政策阻止了列强瓜分中国的进程。其实，列强当时只是口头上赞同美国的这个政策。