In 1920 the great powers promised them an independent state.
1920年，列强们曾答应让他们成为一个独立国家。
The speaker had great powers of utterance.
那个演讲人很有口才。
Great powers have retrenched before: Britain for instance.
强国的没落以前有过，英国就是其中一个。
She exhibited great powers of endurance during the climb.
她在攀登过程中表现出极大的耐力。
The great powers of 1945 are no longer the great powers of today.
1945年的大国已不是今天的大国。
He'd been thinking about the fluctuating fortunes of great powers.
他之前一直在思考大国摇摆不定的命运。
Therapid rise of great powers has a habit of causing bloody confrontation.
超级大国的迅速崛起总是会引发血腥对抗。
Among great powers, Russia is the only country where "old friends" hardly appeared.
在大国中，俄罗斯是“老朋友”几近于无的国家。
Never have two great powers been obligated to work together on such a broad spectrum of issues.
从来没有两个大国肩负着在如此广泛的问题上相互合作的重任。
All other great powers lay in ruins, while America itself was unscathed by bombing or invasion.
所有其他大国均战痕累累，而美国本土却幸免于轰炸或人侵。
Nor should Westerners overdo the despair, for the emergence of new great powers will benefit them, too.
西方人也无需太过沉浸于绝望，因为新大国势力的兴起也会使他们受益。
Truly great powers do not fear small threats or, if they come to, they diminish themselves and lift up the small.
真正的强国不会害怕小的威胁，如果这些小的威胁真的来临，它们也会自我消弭，并只能有很小的影响。
Americans like to think their country behaves much better than other states do, and certainly better than other great powers.
美国人总是认为，美国的一举一动都优于其它国家，显然也优于其它大国。
The second made its unlicensed nuclear programme more legitimate, removing the main objection to India’s presence among great powers.
而核合作则赋予了印度未经授权的核项目合法性，为印度跻身于强国之林扫除了主要障碍。
But for China, it is central to the claim that it operates differently in Africa from other great powers and in a way that avoids exploitation.
但对中国而言，表明自己在非洲采取与其它大国不同的运作方式、以及不会去剥削非洲，是至关重要的。
The truth is that the organisation has had its ups and downs, which have largely coincided with support or hostility to it from the great powers.
事实是这一国际组织已几经沉浮，而它的沉浮在很大程度上取决于一些大国对它所采取的支持或敌对态度。
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。
During the American century, rivals were bested left and right, as the ranks of the great powers slipped from half-a-dozen, to three, to two, to one.
在这个属于美国的世纪里，美国人的对手，被一个个地打得东倒西歪，落荒而败。 超级大国排行榜上大国的数量，从半打，滑落至三个，两个，最后到一个。
The question is this: are there military operations that great Powers, even the greatest of the great Powers at any given time, should not undertake?
这个问题是：是否存在强国——即使它是有史以来最强大的国家——不该采取的军事行动？
In February 2008, U.S. destruction of a crippled U.S. spy satellite demonstrated that space may emerge as the new contested domain between the great powers.
2008年2月，美国摧毁一颗(己方)失灵的间谍卫星，表明太空正成为两个大国之间争夺的新领域。
In February 2008, U.S. destruction of a crippled U.S. spy satellite demonstrated that space may emerge as the new contested domain between the great powers.
2008年2月，美国摧毁一颗(己方)失灵的间谍卫星，表明太空正成为两个大国之间争夺的新领域。
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