Nor is it conceivable in this modern world that a whole country could wall itself off from modernity, even if the majority wanted to do so.

在现今的世界上，即使在国内受到了多数人的支持，要把一个国家完全与现代社会隔绝开来也是绝无可能的。

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This, you might think, is a world away from modern digital cameras, brimming with fancy electronics which capture the wavelengths and intensity of light and translate them into digital bits.

你可能认为，这是一个远离现代数码相机的时代，一个充满花哨的电子来捕捉波长和强度的光并将它们转化为数字位的时代。

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It is not in our best interest to not tolerate opposition, because this would make it impossible for us to be part of the modern world.

不容忍对立面是不符合我们的利益的，因为那使我们不能成为当前现代世界的一部分。

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"This is quite an unacceptable situation given the fact that we are all living in modern world.

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He adds that Russia in this field is far behind what he calls the modern civilized world.

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The film tries to suggest that this is the real world version of the modern Facebooked world, where we are constantly monitoring each other, projecting ourselves online, and creating a record of our lives available for surveillance by whoever wants to look all for free.

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It means looking at radically new industrial processes which simply replace previous kinds of industrial manufacturing with sophisticated bionumetics and nanotech approaches, to cutting down the material intensity and energy intensity of production, this is the kind of thing you need to do to stay competitive in the modern world.

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Winsor, a former rail regulator, argues that far from keeping the police in touch with the public they serve, this deeply ingrained "blue collar" attitude is out-of-step with the modern world and is holding police officers back.

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