他期望能以空前的规模再度重演他长期以来赖以发迹的将敌手各个击破的故伎,然后便可以腾出场地来演出最后的一幕 —— 将整个西半球置于他的控制和统治之下。他知道,如果做不到这一点,他的全部战果都将化为泡影。 He hopes that he may once again repeat, upon a greater scale than ever before, that process of destroying his enemies one by one by which he has so long _______ and ______, and that then the scene will be clear for the final act, without which all his conquests would be ____ – namely, the _______of the Western Hemisphere to his will and to his system.