他们好像选择了合作而不是对抗的行动路线。

They appear to have chosen the path of cooperation rather than confrontation.

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我坚信应该教育孩子们学会合作而不是互相竞争。

I firmly believe children should be taught to cooperate rather than to compete.

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这个国家必须与许多其他国家合作，听取他们的建议，而不是道歉，不必困惑。

This country has to work with many other nations and listen to them, not apologize, not gravel.

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So we can think of this term has to do with complementarity, or synergy, a very unpopular word these days but still: synergy.

因此我们可以把合作理解为互补或协同,虽然协同这个词现在不是很常用了

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Very difficult problems, but in my judgement, all solvable if we generate the country in the kind of bipartizan political cooperation and political courage that will be necessary to fix them.

这些问题很不容易解决，但我认为,不是不能解决，只要我们,以这种两党制的合作形式治理国家,还要有治理它们的政治勇气。

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On the battlefield,even if Smith and Jones are both dying, it's not like this is some sort of cooperative, joint undertaking.

在战场上，Smith和Jones同时死亡，但是并不是在某种合作下，同时进行的。

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