Renan gave priority to this will for a common life over any ethnic definition and set the French idea of the nation in direct contrast to the almost racial notion of people (Volk) that dominates the German tradition.

Renan将这种共同生活的意愿置于一切族性定义之上，并将法国的民族理念与主导德国 传统的近乎种族主义的民族 (Volk) 概念进行直接的对比。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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The USSR collapsed not for economic reasons, but because the slight lifting of the Iron Curtain revealed a reality that stood in stark contrast to the idea that people were subordinate to the state.

苏联并非出于经济原因才最终崩溃，相反是因为铁幕被稍稍拉开之后，人们看到了一个与想象之中截然相反的事实：那就是西方国家的民众并不是政府的附庸。

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http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 21.12.2010

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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By contrast, the March 11, 2004, terrorist attack on Spain, which left 200 dead, triggered an “anti-crusade” that seeks to disarm extremism by building bridges of understanding and reconciliation with Islam.

与之相比，2004年3月11日发生在西班牙造成200人死亡的恐怖袭击引发了尝试通过与伊斯兰建立理解和和解来消除极端主义思想的“反十字军运动”。

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http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 24.01.2011

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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By contrast, the proportion of assets held outside the EU is almost unchanged.

与此形成鲜明对照的是，欧盟境外持有的资产比例几乎毫无变化。

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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By contrast, sky-high US interest rates produced by a general expectation of a massive ongoing dollar decline is a macroeconomic problem without a solution.

而恰恰相反，大规模持续性美元贬值的普遍预期所带来的居高不下的美元利率却是没有办法解决的宏观经济问题。

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http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 13.01.2011

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By contrast, the Russians remain insecure about their status in the world.

与此相比，俄国对其在世界上的地位依旧感到不牢靠。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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By contrast, his successor, General Yasar Buyukanit, is a strong secularist who has been far more outspoken in asserting the military’s views.

相反，厄 兹柯克的继任者Yasar Buyukanit将军是一位坚定的世俗论者，他在宣扬军事观点方面远比厄兹柯克更为积极。

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http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 01.11.2010

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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By contrast, Thailand’s government and local elite seem content to remain a provincial country shielded from global competition in science and technology.

与此形成鲜明对照的是，泰国政府和当地精英似乎满足于泰国目前不参与全球科技竞争的地区性国家地位。

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http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 26.01.2011

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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In 2007, by contrast – and this constitutes real progress – a large segment of the French population is expressing its frustration with the system by being tempted to vote for the “extreme center,” i.e., Bayrou.

在2007年，与此相反，法国民众的很大一部分通过把票投给“极中间派”，也就贝鲁来表 达对体制的不满，而这就构成了切实的进步。

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 29.10.2010

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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In sharp contrast to the Soviet Union, Russia now publishes voluminous (if not always reliable) economic, social, and demographic information.

与苏联迥然不同的是，俄国现在出版数量巨大、但并不一定总是可靠的经济、社会以及人口信息。

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http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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The Tibetans, by contrast, can share this feeling only to the extent that they become fully Chinese.

而西藏人则恰恰相反，他们只有在完全被中国人同化以后才有资格分享这种快乐。

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011

By contrast, neo-conservatism’s adherents are unconcerned with what Edmund Burke called the ties that bind “the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."

相比而言，新保守主义的追随者对于埃德蒙德·柏克所称的连接“逝去的人、活着的人和尚未出生的人”的纽带毫无兴趣。

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http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.12.2010

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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In contrast to the Mexican, Chinese, or Russian revolutions, economic disenfranchisement is not driving the current conflict.

与墨西哥、中国或者俄国革命不同的是，驱动当前冲突的并不是经济剥夺。

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010

© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Any foreign exchange collected under the trade item within one year has a balance of 10 percent or above as contrasted with the total receivable foreign exchange under the trade item for the current period;

一年内贸易项下的收汇与同期贸易项下应收汇总额相差10^(含以上的；

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