||1:How did she manage all this Mr Moore shows that it took more than ideological certainty and personal stubbornness.||2:Mrs Thatcher had a gift for seeing when the time was ripe and when it was not.||3:She had a natural bond with what Richard Nixon called the silent majority.||4:She had an actor’s gift for putting on a good show.||5:Mrs Thatcher’s opponents repeatedly played into her hands: Heath, the titular leader of the Tory ditherers , known as the “wets”, was a repulsive figure who grew more repulsive with age and Michael Foot, the Labour leader, had an unfortunate habit of dressing like a scarecrow.

||1:然而她是怎样应对这些的呢？摩尔将其描述为远非坚定的意志和倔强的个性就足够。||2:撒切尔夫人有着判断时机的良好禀赋。||3:她与理查德尼克松所说的“沉默的大多数”之间有着天然纽带。||4:她就像是一个天生的演员，与生俱来就擅长上演一出精彩的戏。||5:撒切尔夫人的对手总会正中她的下怀：名义上保守党反对派的领袖希思，是著名的“温和派”，他的为人令人厌恶，而且越老越惹人烦，还有工党领袖迈克尔福特，他喜欢把自己打扮得像个稻草人一样，有这个习惯实在是不幸啊。

||1:Margaret Thatcher grows with the turning of the pages.||2:She summons up extraordinary personal resources not just to break with the old order but to put a new one in its place.||3:None of this was easy.||4:The entire Thatcherite project was frequently in danger of faltering, as unemployment soared, cities burned and the ditherers conspired.||5:The situation became so dire in 1981 that Mrs Thatcher’s advisers sent her a memo castigating her management style and warning that she would soon be joining Edward Heath on the backbenches.

||1:随着时间的推移，玛格丽特撒切尔也在变得更加老练成熟。||2:她以常人少有的勇气与旧秩序决裂，同时打造新秩序。||3:这两件事都不容易。||4:所有这些撒切尔主义项目经常面临各种垮台的危险，因为失业率急速增长，各大城市情况堪忧，反对者纷纷密谋反叛。||5:情况发展到1981年已经十分危急，连撒切尔夫人的顾问也都向她寄去一份简报，激烈指责她的管理方式，并警告说她可能很快就加入爱德华希思成为后座议员了。

But the divide between ditherers and hotheads still matters.

但是犹豫派和冲动派的差异仍很重要。