World leaders have already tried to temper expectations, warning that the current crisis did not come about overnight and will not be resolved in such short order either.

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Between Slavophiles and westernizers, those are the people that look inside Russia to finding what they think to be eternal truth and those people who want to temper such looks with a look to the west.

俄国现在有斯拉夫派和西化派,一些人是希望基于俄国国情找到一种永恒真理,而另一些人则是希望,调和西方文化和俄国本土文化

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Her temper overwrought me, ] And I edged to shun her view For I felt assured she thought me One who should drown him too.

她的性情，诗人接着说，让我紧张烦恼，我慢慢的避开她的观点，离开月光,因为我断言，她认为我,应该也会溺死他。

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