So I can only recommend from the German experience that it's good, that it's something to copy from."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

You're not supposed to copy this piece because it's supposed to be only performed in the Sistine Chapel.

人们不允许复制那首乐曲,因为它应该只在西斯廷教堂里演奏

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He tries not only to copy European absolutism, but to open up Russia to commerce, realizing that trade meant wealth and that wealth meant improvements in the lives of the Russian people.

他不仅试图仿效欧洲的绝对主义,也开放了俄国的商业贸易,他意识到贸易意味着财富,而财富则等同于俄国民众生活水平的提高

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