"This is our generation's Sputnik moment," Obama said in his speech, adding that the country needs to "fund a level of research and development we haven't seen since the height of the space race."

“这是我们这一代的” Sputnik Moment “(人造卫星危机)，”奥巴马在他的演讲中说道，并且指出美国需要“通过拨款让研发水平重新达到空间竞赛时的高度”。

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Since the mid-1990s China alone has accounted for a third of the increase in global spending on research and development.

自从20世纪90年代中期自来，中国一国便占了全球研发支出增长额的三分之一。

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Their research on members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (a rich-country club) over the 40 years since 1960 concludes that conscription hampers growth.

他们的研究关注的是经济合作与发展组织(一个富国俱乐部)的成员国从1960年开始四十年来的情况，得出的结论是征兵会阻碍经济增长。

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Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

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His advisers fret that federal research and development has fallen sharply since the Sputnik era.

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Since then Mondo has invested heavily in research and development, on which it spends about 5% of revenues and employs 40 people.

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