And keeping the powers of the Eurasian world island off balance is precisely what the Great Game has always been about.

而维持欧亚大陆这一世界岛的权力平衡，恰恰正是大博弈始终的焦点所在。

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A different system had to be devised if the potentially isolationist great powers of the post-1945 world were to be kept inside a new world body.

如果二战后，有可能奉行孤立主义的世界列强要被纳入一个新的世界性机构，那就要创制一个迥然相异的体制。

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Maybe so, but that's not how great powers have acted in the past, and it's certainly not how the United States behaved during its own rise to world power (remember the Monroe Doctrine?).

也许会这样，但是历史上强国从来都不是这样做的，当初美国的崛起也不是这样的，还记得门罗主义吧。

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And,so I don't see the refueling as being a favor to the United States but rather a contribution that the Japanese have made that is commensurate with its standing as in the world as the second wealthiest country and one of the great powers,".

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The Netherlands ceases to be a great power, whereas Britain in 1707 becomes the biggest of the world powers.

随着荷兰的衰落,一七零七年,英国成为了世界的霸主

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