Further east, their contemporaries have also grown up in a post-Soviet world.

再向东去，同样的青年一代也在后苏联世界里茁壮成长。

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Yet a mechanism of this kind can only work if a third party (the US, the “US plus,” or the Middle East Quartet) is available to monitor the agreement.

但是，此类机制只有在第三方(美国，“美国加”或者中东四方)可以监督协议的情况下才会奏效。

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Then they realized that their holdings in liquid and low-return assets far exceed what is needed to avoid the type of speculative runs that East Asia experienced in 1997, and Russia in 1998.

随后，它们发现它们所持有的流动性和低收益资产远远超过避免东亚在1997年和俄国在1998年所经历的那种投机性挤兑所需要的数量。

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A workshop on physical protection and illicit trafficking for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa was held in Cyprus in 1999.

1999年在塞浦勒斯为中东和北非国家办了一个实物保护与非 法贩运问题讲习班.

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Instead, after a US withdrawal, the country might fall apart, possibly leading to “balkanization” of the Middle East, with extremely dangerous consequences for the whole region.

然而，在其撤军之后，该国可能会四分五裂，致使中东地区“巴尔干化”，给整个地区带来危险的后果。

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Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia will be the first to be exposed.

非洲、中东及中亚将是首批发生冲突的地区。

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(Indeed, this “miracle” has already occurred in East Asia.)

（实际上，这一“奇迹”已经在东亚发生了。）

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If Iran succeeds in being seen as the genuine patron of Palestinian national aspirations, it will also succeed in legitimizing its claim for dominance in the Middle East.

如果伊朗果真被视为巴勒斯坦人民族事业追求的真诚支持者，其在中东称霸的要求就会合法化。

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The Middle East urgently needs support in creating a regional stability charter to encompass codes of conduct, goals for regional cooperation, and the mechanisms of a regional cohesion fund to tackle underdevelopment and fund new infrastructure.

在制定包括行为准则、地区合作目标和地区共同基金机制以应对发展缓慢和资助新的基础设施建设的地区稳定宪章方面，中东迫切需要其它国家的支持和帮助。

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But the differences between Russia and China today may prove to be less significant tomorrow if the deterioration in the Middle East imposes a sense of collective responsibility on all five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

但是，如果中东局势恶化，构成联合国五大常任理事国的集体责任感，那么，如今中俄两国的差别在明天也就不再重要。

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A new policy is needed not only in order to halt America’s drift into impotence as it tries to prevent Iraq from spiraling into full-scale civil war, but also because the map of power in the Middle East has changed dramatically.

人们需要一个新政策，不仅是为了在美国防止伊拉克陷于全面内战的时候阻止美国滑入无能为力的境地，而且是因为中东的势力地图已经面目全非。

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If they succeed, Rice and the Bush administration will be remembered not just for the endless tragedy of Iraq, but for making a serious contribution to Middle East peace.

如果成功，那么赖斯和布什政府留在人们记忆中的就不仅是伊拉克无穷无尽的悲剧，还有为中东和平做出的重大贡献。

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At the Cold War’s end, East European countries did not try to form local alliances, as they did in the 1920’s, but looked toward Brussels to secure their future.

冷战结束时，东欧国家并不企图像二十年代那样组成地区联盟，而是放眼布鲁塞尔来寻求安定其前途。

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In a way, then, the war in Iraq forms the strategic and military bridge between the old and the new Middle East.

也就是说，伊拉克战争在一定程度上形成了新旧中东之间的战略和军事桥梁。

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service as the holder of the office of President, Vice-President, Justice of Appeal, Registrar, officer or servant of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa or the Court of Appeal for East Africa;

在非洲东部上诉法院或东非上诉法院以担任院长、副院长、上诉法院大法官、司法常务官职位的身分，或以人员或受雇人的身分从事的服务；

http://www.legislation.gov.hk/eng/index.htm 31.08.2011

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