Membership in the European Union has resulted in the proliferation of ties to Europe at many levels, as well as a major influx of EU money.

成为欧盟成员使它们在许多层面上加深了与欧洲的联系，同时欧盟资金也大量流入了这些国家。

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As one Pakistani blogger wrote, “They danced in black coats and they danced in black ties.

正如一名巴基斯坦博客所写的那样：“他们穿着黑色西装跳舞，他们系着黑色领带跳 舞。

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But the core of Japan’s defense strategy remains strong ties with the US, not military self-sufficiency.

但日本防卫战略的核心仍然是与美国的紧密联系而不是自给自足。

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China’s economic ties to Burma’s rulers are strategically important for both sides.

中国与缅甸统治者之间的经济纽带对双方而言都具有重要的战略意义。

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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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