The UN’s latest initiative to get low-key, exploratory talks moving is going nowhere.

欧盟试图促进低调、试探性会谈的最新举措不会取得任何效果。

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In both cases, reducing corruption will require not only government pep talks against bad ethics, but also institutional reforms, including further deregulation, stronger property rights, and more privately owned assets.

在以上两种情况中，减少腐败不仅要求政府三令五申反对腐化伦理，而且还要进行制度改革，包括进一步解除管制，更为有力的所有权以及 更多的私有资产。

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The talks were scheduled to resume within 60 days and to continue in permanent session.

会谈订于60天内恢 复，并继续举行长期会议。

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The agreement needs to be followed by an effort to end the economic and administrative siege of Palestine, as well as serious peace talks with Israel aimed at ending the 39-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

这一协议需要跟进，即努力结束对巴勒斯坦的经济和行政制裁以及与以色列展开严肃认真的谈判以结束对约旦河西岸以及加沙地带长达39年的占领。

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The Government, which had previously agreed to extend its ceasefire until the peace talks, refused to extend it further claiming that no one in its TCHA delegation had the authority to do so.

政府先前曾同意把其停火期限延长，直至举行和平会谈，但拒绝进一步延长.政府 声称，人道主义援助技术委员会代表团中没有人有权可以这样做.

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The other scenario is when the two sides have already engaged in bilateral peace talks, paid the domestic political price, and reached agreement on most issues, though some matters remain unresolved and threaten to derail the process.

另一个背景条件是当双方已经参加双边和平会谈，付出了国内政治代价，并且虽然有些问题仍然没有得到解决而且有使进程偏离轨道的威胁，但是在绝大多数问题上取得了共识的时候。

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Unlike former President Bill Clinton, who blamed Yassir Arafat for the failure of the Camp David talks in 2000, the Bush administration must honor its commitment not to point fingers or allow either side to use failure to advance its strategic goals.

与将2000年戴维营和谈破裂的责任归咎于阿拉法特的克林顿总统不同，布什政府必须实践承诺，不责备任何一方，也不允许任 何一方以和谈破裂为由推进自己的战略目标。

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For Greek Cypriots, the failure of Turkey’s accession talks in this way would also end any chance of resolving the Cyprus problem.

从希腊裔塞浦路斯人的角度考虑，土耳其入盟谈判以这种方式结束也会带走解决塞浦路斯问题的任何机遇。

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Mladic must be arrested before talks start, not after.

Mladic必须在谈判开始前被逮捕，而不是在这之后。

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The only achievement was the agreement on the setting-up of a permanent secretariat in Nairobi for the talks, under the supervision of a special envoy who would undertake "shuttle diplomacy" between talks.

唯一的成就是双方商定为会谈在内罗毕建立一常设秘书处，由一名特使负责，该特使在不 举行会谈斯间进行“穿梭外交”。

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But Israel will be required to engage in peace talks only if the Palestinians crack down on terrorism – that is, risk another Fatah-Hamas civil war – and eliminate corruption.

但只有巴勒斯坦冒着爆发法塔赫－哈马斯内战的危险镇压恐怖主义并消除腐败，西方国家才会要求以色列参与和谈。

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Your pure mind is going as dry as fiddlesticks, from what I see of it. You' re simply talking it down.'

在我看来， 你那纯洁的心灵却干核得和木竿一样。 你愈说愈干。 ”

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

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She was so glad to be alone, not always to have to talk to him. When he was alone he tapped-tapped-tapped on a typewriter, to infinity.

她是这样的愉活， 她现在是孤独了， 不必常常和克利福说话了， 当他是一个人的时候， 他打， 打， 打， 打着打字机， 无穷地打着。

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

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This means dropping anti-American rhetoric and talk about “European power,” which is meaningless for the majority of EU states.

这就意味着它必须 放弃反美论调和所谓“欧洲实力”的观点，这些对大多数欧盟国家都毫无意义。

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'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk about wasting IT.

“如果你也像我一样对时间熟悉， ”帽匠说， “你就不会叫它‘宝贵的时间’。

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Alice's adventures in Wonderland

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