For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay.

为此，对像德国泰坦尼克号这样的痛苦回忆半个世纪的有意遗忘，也许是一个合理的代价。

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A return to the golden era is certainly not the answer: it is now clear that Mr Koizumi danced atop an edifice, dominated for half a century by the LDP, that was about to crumble regardless.

重返黄金时代自然不是答案：显而易见的是，这个自民党控制了半个世纪，小泉首相曾大展拳脚的庞然大物无论如何都将濒临崩溃。

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That is about half the area involved in the 19th-century scramble for Africa, and some big claims have already been lodged: Canada is seeking 1.7m sq km and Australia 2.5m.

这个面积差不多是19世纪在非洲被争夺面积的一半，而且一些大的索求已经被提出：加拿大在寻求170万平方公里，澳大利亚索要250万。

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