A weak nation can defeat a strong, a small nation can defeat a big.

弱国能够打败强国，小国能够打败大国。

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The United States was born out of the revolutionary war, a weak nation that needed to be taken care of. We weren't taken care of but the United States did receive some help from France.

美国在独立战争中诞生，一如初生的婴儿需要被好好照顾，我们并没有得到额外的恩宠，但确实得到法国的帮助。

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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

当然，我们是一个有着许多不同的国家。这些不同不仅没有削弱我们，它们是我们力量的源泉。

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Despite the weak report, the nation's unemployment rate fell 0.2 a point to 9.5 percent as thousands of Americans gave up looking for work.

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What kind of fair partnership can exist between a strong and a weak nation?

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall with Young African Leaders

But it could well grow into a thriving, tolerably governed nation with a weak central government and very effective local rule, a positive and vivid contrast to many other Middle East states, especially Syria and Iran.

FORBES: Winning the War

The realpolitik view: if it is right for a rich, powerful, democratic nation to conquer a poor, weak, nasty one and force it to become democratic, why start with Iraq?

ECONOMIST: Was war warranted?