我们该如何看待这款新推出的美国护照呢？而旧护照又有什么问题呢？
What are we to make of the promised new American passport? And what was wrong, one might ask, with the old one?
尽管几乎一半的美国公民从未持有或申请过护照，但那些需要出入境的人却将护照视为一份珍贵的象征，代表着美国民族性格中的某些积极品质。
Though nearly half of all U.S. citizens seem never to have held, or even applied for a passport, the border crossers among us hold on to ours as a prize—one that is deeply treasured and symbolic of something profoundly positive in the national character.
护照上的照片往往让人感到尴尬——正如著名作家厄玛·邦贝克所说：‘当你长得和护照照片一模一样时，就是该回家的时候了。’
Bearing an alarmingly stark, almost Avedonian portrait of the holder—as the great Erma Bombeck remarked, “When you look like your passport picture, it’s time to go home”—it also offered a simple, eloquent old-fashioned advisement to the world: “The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance.”
同时，护照上也印着一句简单而富有深意的老式提示：‘美利坚合众国国务卿特此要求所有相关人员允许此处所列的美国公民顺利通过，不得拖延或阻碍。’这是一个平和的请求，而非威胁。
正如在希思罗机场和戴高乐机场排着无尽移民队伍的旅客们所热切希望的那样，这仅仅是为了结束不必要的延误。
A plain and peaceable statement—a request, not a threat, and urging, as veterans of the interminable immigration lines at Heathrow and Charles de Gaulle fervently desire, merely an end to needless delay.
美国公民最珍视的官方文件，如今也迎来了特朗普时代的‘翻新’。”}{
Americans’ most valued official document is the latest national treasure to get a Trump makeover.