It's a way of showing the world what we can do. It's a way of promoting Lithuania as a modern country, rather than just an old Soviet satellite state.

它是向世界展示我们能做什么的一种方式，一种推介立陶宛是现代国家，而不仅仅是前苏联的一个卫星国的方式。

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Financial risk management is the core and frontier problem in modern financial theory; it is a critical and practical issue which our country is facing as well.

金融风险管理是现代金融理论的核心和前沿问题，也是我国面临的重大现实问题。

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As the magistrate of a country, he always deems it necessary to address himself to the work of upgrading the educational level of its people and to acquaint them modern science and technology.

作为一县之长，他一直认为有必要集中精力提高全县人民的教育水平让他们熟悉现代的科学技术。

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Much like his peers in the Middle East, the Prince has been applying his wife as a public relations tool to project a more modern image of his country to the West.

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Even John Howard, the prime minister and a staunch monarchist, grudgingly admits that having a head of state who lives in another country does not quite fit Australia's self-image as a modern democracy, seeking to establish a new role for itself in the Asia-Pacific region.

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All were free from Soviet bureaucratic baggage and electrified by the promise of getting their country back and rebuilding it as a modern state.

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