超级大国

He needs to explain that, although his America will respect human rights and pay more heed to the advice of others, it will not be a pushover: he must avoid the fate of Jimmy Carter, a moralising president who made the superpower look weak.

卡特---一位让一个超级大国看起来弱势的说教总统的命运不那么容易。

Instead, the complexities of life in a fragmented modern society that can boast of no momentous achievements -- no more superpower status, no new Sputniks -- have made Russians nostalgic for the "strong state" they once inhabited.

相反，在一个支离破碎的现代社会——不再拥有超级大国的地位，不再有新的人造地球卫星发射——中，生活之复杂使得俄罗斯人常常怀念他们过去的那个&强国&。

Even superpowers like America and China are prepared to accept its rulings.

甚至像美国和中国等超级大国也准备接受它的规定。

So much for the idea that this was a regime of quislings designed to secure Iraq's oil for America and serve the superpower's colonial ambitions.

然而，也有人认为伊拉克政府是个卖国求荣的政权，其建立的目的是确保美国获得该国的石油资源，满足这个超级大国殖民的野心。

So much for the idea that this was a regime of quislings designed to secure Iraq's oil for America and serve the superpower's colonial ambitions.

认为本质上是一个由卖国贼构成的政府，他们旨在保护美国在伊拉克的石油利益，并同时服务于这个超级大国的殖民企图的观点现在已经不成立了。

So much for the idea that this was a regime of quislings designed to secure Iraq's oil for America and serve the superpower's colonial ambitions.

有人认为：美国曾野心勃勃，设计这样一个傀儡政府来保障其的石油供应，并为这个超级大国的殖民野心服务。

And, as the world's only superpower, America has no choice but to continue to worship Mars as well as Venus.

而且，作为当今世界唯一的超级大国，美国别无选择，它在崇拜金星的同时，还会继续推崇火星。

And, as the world's only superpower, America has no choice but to continue to worship Mars as well as Venus.

而且，作为世界唯一的超级大国，美国除了，别无选择。

And, as the world's only superpower, America has no choice but to continue to worship Mars as well as Venus.

而且，作为世界唯一的超级大国，美国除了刚柔两手一起抓，别无选择。

But it was a decade before the superpower found a new organising principle for its policy: the September 11th 2001 attacks put America on a more or less permanent war footing against terrorism, mainly its radical Islamist variety.

但是，在这个超级大国为它的政策找到一个新的组织原则之前，十年过去了：2001年9月11日的多起袭击把美国置于或多或少具有长久意义的反恐战争当中，主要是对付各种激进的穆斯林组织。

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。