Lithuania had no money, no state institutions, no experience, no means of defending itself.

立陶宛没有钱，没有国家机构，没有经验，也没有自卫的手段。

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It's a way of showing the world what we can do. It's a way of promoting Lithuania as a modern country, rather than just an old Soviet satellite state.

它是向世界展示我们能做什么的一种方式，一种推介立陶宛是现代国家，而不仅仅是前苏联的一个卫星国的方式。

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But yet Muscovy was considerably less important than the commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, which was considerably much greater and subject to struggles with and influence by that state.

但俄国的影响力仍远不及，波兰-立陶宛联邦，后者远远比俄国强大，但却受制于两国的争端所照成的影响。

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But yet Muscovy was considerably less important than the commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, which was considerably much greater and subject to struggles with and influence by that state.

但俄国的影响力仍远不及,波兰-立陶宛联邦,后者远远比俄国强大,但却受制于两国的争端所照成的影响

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Although it is largely a ceremonial post, the re-emergence of the perestroika-era leader alongside the appointment in the other Baltic State of Lithuania of the former Communist leader, Algirdas Brazauskas, as prime minister, sends mixed signals about the ability of a younger generation of Baltic politicians to rule.

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Schools in the state of Saxony, in Germany, in Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Poland have all raised their games.

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