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Thus, another unpleasant truth: The Western democratic model has no appeal to much of the Arab world. Nor is democracy an attractive model for huge swaths of the rest of the world, such as Russia and China.

因此，另一个使人不愉快的事实是：西方的民主模式对阿拉伯世界没有产生太大的吸引力，也没有对其他庞大的国家产生吸引力，像俄罗斯和中国。

He now sells wine to Chinese city slickers who have just started to appreciate the drink, long seen as a mark of Western upper-class lifestyle in a country traditionally dominated by baijiu, or white spirits.

现在他把红酒卖给那些刚刚开始品赏红酒的城市乡巴佬们，而在中国这个白酒占主导地位的国家，红酒长期被视为是西方上层生活方式的标志。

These western media should be shamed for the fake reportings they have made purposely and whoever in the world, intending to slander Chinese people to provoke territory integrity of China will be doomed to failure!

这些个西方媒体应该为它们有意捏造事实，篡改真相的无耻行为而感到羞耻。世界上任何一个想要造谣诽谤中国人，并且想要破坏中国国家主权的尊严及领土完整的人是注定不会得逞的！

Like the Chinese, they argued that it is fundamentally unjust to cap the greenhouse gas emissions of poor countries at a lower level than the emissions of the US or the European Union; all the more so since the industrialised west is responsible for the great bulk of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

与中国一样，它们指出，把穷国的温室气体排放量限制在比美国或欧盟更低的水平，从根本上讲是不公正的，尤其是考虑到西方工业化国家对已经存在于大气中的大部分二氧化碳负有责任。

This time many rank-and-file Palestinians hope that, if a new unity government took shape, Western paymasters would accept a commitment to past PLO agreements by the unity government, rather than specifically by the Hamas faction within it.

这次很多一般巴勒斯坦人民都希望，若统一的新政府成形，西方赞助国家会接受统一政府对过去巴解组织协议的承诺，而不是针对内部的哈马斯派系。

The fine words of the rich-world's armchair conservationists butter few parsnips in the poor world.

西方世界那些纸上谈兵的环境保护者们的高谈阔论从未给贫穷国家带来过半分的利益。

Some of Mr Wen's interlocutors in Cebu, including Australia, Japan and South Korea, have since joined a chorus of Western criticism.

一些参加宿雾峰会的与温先生对话的合作国家，包括澳大利亚、日本、南韩都已经加入到西方，一齐唱出了批评的声音。

Part of China's problem is that its companies are latecomers to Nigeria and Angola, which have some of the most attractive prospects, and where western rivals have spent decades building relationships and staking claims.

中国的部分问题在于，该国企业进军尼日利亚与安哥拉的时间过晚，而在这些最有前途的国家，西方竞争者已经花费了数十年时间来建立关系与业务。

This period witnessed not only the expansion of the state beyond its old frontiers and the spread of Byzantine influence into the West and among the Slavs, but it also saw significant creativity at home, in art and architecture, literature, and learning.

这一时期不仅见证了国家扩张超出了旧有的边界，将拜占庭的影响扩展到西方和斯拉夫人地区，而且在国内的艺术和建筑、文学和学术方面的创造力也具有重要意义。

In order to state it clearly it will be necessary to point out first certain details in which all the Latin or Western rites agree with one another in differing from the Eastern, and in this we speak only of the Mass, which is of far more importance than either the Divine Office, or the occasional services in determining origins.

为了明确国家将有必要指出，首先某些细节，所有的拉丁美洲或西方礼仪同意彼此不同的来自东欧，并在此我们只讲群众，这是更重要比神的办公室，或偶尔在确定服务的起源。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。