Advanced US military capabilities have, it is generally agreed, substantially eroded the deterrent relationship that existed between the US and its nuclear competitors during the cold war.

人们普遍认为，美国先进的军事能力，实际上已经侵蚀了冷战时期美国及其核竞争国之间存在的核威慑关系。

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The IMF's revised November figures now forecast that the advanced economies will shrink by 0.3% in 2009, which would be the first annual contraction since the war.

IMF十一月份修正的数据预计，发达经济体会在2009年经济衰退0.3%，这是自二战以来首次年度经济出现负增长。

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It is not by accident that the two most powerful nations, capable of threatening each other with total war, are also the most advanced technologically and industrially.

这两个能够以全面战争互相威胁的超级强国，同时在技术和工业上也是最先进的国家，并非出于偶然。

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