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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One is building new houses, another one is building new apartment buildings that's commercial instead of-- but it's still adding to the housing stock and the third one is improvements of existing houses.

一种是新建家庭住宅,另一种是新建公寓,用于商业用途而非...,也是存量住房的一部分,第三种是现房改造

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