The central state, though often very rich and very populous, was intrinsically fragile, since the development of new international trade routes could undermine the monetary base and erode state power.

尽管中央帝国通常非常富有和人口稠密，它本质上是很脆弱的，因为新的国际贸易路线的发展可能会破坏货币基础和侵蚀国家权力。

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But bilateral deals, such as Italy's with Libya and Spain's with Senegal and Mauritania, have largely closed down the western and central Mediterranean routes into the EU.

但是双面协议已经极大程度上关闭了进入欧盟的西部和地中海中部线路，例如意大利和利比亚，西班牙和塞内加尔和毛利塔利亚之间得协议。

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In a branch, service requests are made to the local ESB, which mediates and routes the request to the central ESB and on to a central service provider.

在分支中，服务请求是向本地esb提出的，它再将请求转发和路由到中心esb，进而到中心服务提供者上。

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Some insiders even think Shah Deniz II will initially plump for TAP, allow Nabucco West to collapse, before resurrecting SEEP plans as and when more Azeri gas becomes available to fill Southern and Central European routes.

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