Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences.

凯瑟琳大帝是艺术和科学的赞助人。

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Catherine evinced a child's annoyance at this neglect; repaid it with contempt, and thus enlisted my informant among her enemies, as securely as if she had done her some great wrong.

凯瑟琳对于这种怠慢表示出了孩子气的恼怒；用轻蔑来相报，如此就把我这个通风报信的人也列入她的敌人之列，记下了仇，好像她做了天大的对不起她的事似的。

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A city of Russian glory built by Catherine the Great, it has a big place in the national psyche.

这座由凯瑟琳大帝创建的荣耀之城，在俄国人的心中拥有很高的地位。

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"You really need system-wide Skolkovas - Silicon Valley - otherwise it ends up just like under Catherine the Great when they imported a lot of German tradesmen and planted them in various settlements - but they were fairly self-contained.

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And Catherine the Great-- they all like to call themselves "The Great"-- She would make this an important part of her policy, but she doesn't get there either.

凯瑟琳大帝,沙皇都喜欢称自己为"大帝"-,她将黑海列为重要政策,然而她也未能如愿

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On Sunday,Russian nationalists Orange Revolution. in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, threw Ukrainian history textbooks into boxes at the foot of a local monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great.

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On her desk sits a portrait of Russia's Catherine the Great, another underestimated east German woman.

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This is one of a remarkable set of four paintings of the evangelists that belonged in the 18th century to Catherine the Great, Russia's empress.

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