China’s adventurism and its blithe assumption that it can deal with any international dictator it wishes and disturb the delicate military balance in outer space is emblematic of something sinister and dangerous.

中国的冒险主义及其毫无顾及的假定可以任由其与国际上的独裁者来往并且破坏外层空间微妙的军事平衡表明了某些危险的东西。

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The world has been horrified by graphic images of the latest crackdown by Myanmar’s military junta.

世界被缅甸军政府最新一次镇压的画面所震惊了。

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Without the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte would have remained a gifted and frustrated junior military officer.

如果没有法国大革命，拿破仑•波拿巴将仍然是一位怀才不遇的初级军官。

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The decision of the Constitutional Court, confirming the military court's jurisdiction over civilians, has been received with energetic disapproval on the part of distinguished legal personalities and associations.

宪法法院的裁决肯定了军事法庭对平民的管辖权,它受到了著名法律界人士和各法律联合会的激烈反 对.

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Indeed, the second-ranked country in terms of total annual military spending, the United Kingdom, lags far behind, at $55 billion, followed by France ($45 billion), Japan ($41 billion), and Germany ($35 billion).

事实上，年度军事开支总额名列第二的英国军费总额为550亿美元，与美国根本无法同日而语，紧随其后的是法国（450亿美元）、日本（410亿美元）和德国（350亿美元）。

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by a red flag flown at Castle Peak unless the Director of Home Affairs has given permission to the military authorities to dispense with that flag;

在青山(地图方位悬挂红旗，除非民政事务总署署长已给予军事主管当局许可而免除悬挂该红旗；

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Yet the United States persists in responding to symptoms rather than to underlying conditions by trying to address every conflict by military means.

然而，美国的反应却是治标不治本，试图通过军事手段应对每一场冲突。

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One key factor is that, for the first time since the United States and Britain invaded Iraq, Arab Sunni leaders are backing a US military plan for that country.

其中一个关键因素是，自从美国和英国入侵伊拉克以来，阿拉伯逊尼派领导人第一次支持美国在伊拉克的军事计划。

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The solution to dysfunctional democracy is not military dictatorship, but more democracy.

解决运转不良的民主的办法并非是军事独裁，而是更多的民主。

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We believe, as was recognized at the UN World Summit, that military force should only be a last resort when needed to prevent or halt large-scale loss of life.

我们认为，就像世界首脑峰会上所认同的那样，动用武力只是在需要防止或阻止大量人员伤亡时才使用的最后的解决办法。

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Europeans may want a more “normal” America, closer to their own values, but they simultaneously worry that a more modest America would demand more of them in the realm of “hard” military power.

欧洲人可能想要一个更为“正常”、更为贴近他们自己的价值观的美国，但是他们与此同时也担心一个更为谦虚的美国将会在“硬性”的军事实力上对欧洲提出更多的要求。

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Ahtisaari’s bold proposal, which recommends Kosovo’s independence with initial supervision by a strong international civilian and military presence, is the only viable option for the international community, and for Europe in particular.

阿赫蒂萨里在这一大胆的提案中建议科索沃在国际平民及军事存在的强大监督下独立。这是国际社会，特别是欧洲唯一可行的选择。

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But China’s quest for international respect is not well served by its embrace of rogue nations like Sudan, Venezuela, and Burma, much less by its secretive military build-up and its recent adventure in outer space.

但是，中国与苏丹、委内瑞拉以及缅甸等流氓国家交好并不有助于其寻求国际尊敬的努力，而其隐秘的军力提升以 及最近在外层空间的冒险则更加于事无补。

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Another precaution taken by the central government is to shape the military districts so that they do not overlap with natural regional or economic divisions.

中央政府采取的另一个预防性措施就是划分各军区，这样它们就无法与自然或经济地区重叠。

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The only way to grapple with these problems is through cooperation with others, and that requires the “soft” power of attraction as well as the hard power of coercion. There is no simple military solution that will produce the outcomes we want.

应对这些问题的唯一途径就是通过与他人合作，而这就需要吸引的“软”实力和高压的硬实力并用，而没有现成的能让我们如愿以偿的简单军事解决方案。

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