“三朝元老”是中国的一个成语,原指受三世皇帝重用的臣子,到了现代则用来指在某个政府部门任职很久,已经经历了几个领导任期的人。在美国政坛就有一位三朝元老,他就是不久前刚刚以八十五岁高龄去世的前国务卿、四星上将亚历山大·梅格斯·黑格。 The “Three Dynasties” is an idiom in China originally meant by the courtiers who were reused by the Third World Emperor. In modern times, it is used to refer to those who have worked in a government department for a long time and have gone through several leadership terms. In the political arena in the United States there is a tribe of the three dynas, the former secretary of state who had just died at the recent age of 85, and four-star general Alexander Meggs-Haig.