We need to get better at launching ideas." The challenge is convincing the people in member countries, particularly in Western Europe, that what NATO does is important for their future.

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One of the things he does, and I guess this is one of the things to be put in neon from this lecture, is he opens up Russia, which had no secular influences at all, to western ideas.

他的成就之一,我想这也是今天讲座的重点之一,就是他将西方思想引入俄国,在此之前 俄国没有受到任何外界世俗的影响

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well, I think they, I should say that they're more open to Western ideas,

嗯，我觉得他们，应该说他们对西方的想法更开放，

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He is personally responsible for the reforms, the opening up of Russia to a considerable extent to western European ideas.

他负起了改革的责任,即俄国对于西欧思想,如此大程度的开放

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These are ideas about laws and justice that have simply not flourished outside the Western tradition until places that were outside the Western tradition were influenced by the West.

这些关于法律和正义的思想,却完全没有传播到非西方传统的地方,直到受西方传统影响以外的地方,受到西方影响之后

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Non-Western peoples who wish to share in the things that characterize modernity will need to study the ideas and history of Western civilization to achieve what they want, and westerners, I would argue, who wish to preserve these things must do the same.

希望分享西方现代特点的,非西方人士需要学习,西方文明的思想和历史,以实现自己的理想,而对西方,而我要说,那些希望,保留自身文明的西方人,也必须做相同的事

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