By contrast the EU, apparently under pressure from France and Italy, which both have close ties to Tunisia, has kept quiet.

相比之下，欧盟一直保持沉默，很明显是受到来自与突尼斯关系密切的法国和意大利施加的压力。

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To some extent these forces emanate from the peasantry, whose ties with the land are under threat.

某种程度上，这些力量来自于农民，他们赖以生存的土地受到了威胁。

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You might chafe under restrictions and responsibilities that you have for others, and this feeling makes you want to rebel or be free of whatever ties you down.

你可能不满于受束缚，因对别人的责任而感到焦躁，这样，你产生逆反心理，想摆脱束缚。

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"German-French ties under Mitterrand became a formative factor in the European unification process, " added German Finance Minister Theo Waigel.

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Sino-American ties have been under increasing strain recently.

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The reset is a modest policy that has yielded modest results and a modest improvement in Russian-American ties that, under the confrontational policies of George W. Bush, had decayed to their worst levels since before the end of the Cold War.

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