I was tired of the " -isms" and the schisms.
厌倦了各种" 主义" 和分。
It was a book more bought than read, but even skimmers got the message: the European Union was a vitally important experiment, an attempt to transcend the ideological, nationalist and ethnic schisms that had cursed the continent.
大多数购买此书的人都没有读过,但只要是粗略读过此书的人都能得到这样的信息: 欧盟曾是一个相当重要的实验,这个实验企图超越那些咒骂社会的理想民族主义者和民族分者。