Overall, America's per capita wealth, health and education measures are mediocre for a highly industrialized nation.

报告作者认为，作为高度工业化的国家，美国的人均财富、健康和教育总得来说只能算平庸。

We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the students who begin college never finish.

在所有工业化国家里，美国的高中辍学率最高，有一半大学生未能完成学业。

Korea became a newly industrialized nation from an agricultural one just in a dozen of years and its GDP now is in the third place in Asia.

韩国在短短的几十年里由一个农业国变成了一个新兴的工业化国家，经济总量居亚洲第三。