At the other end of the scale, bargaining can affect the fate of nations.

而反之当其规模很大的时候，讨价还价可以影响国家的命运。

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She spoke for many hours about her life and fate in the small Caucasus republic that has shaped much of what has happened in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.

她用好几个小时的时间谈论了自从苏联后期以来发生的许多事情对俄罗斯影响，以及她在小高加索共和国的生活和命运。

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In the end, as the Chinese get richer, it is probably only China itself that can determine the fate of Africa's elephants.

随着中国人越来越富，也许最终只有他们才能够决定非洲大象的命运。

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At the end of December, concerns rose about the fate of bloggers and peaceful dissidents when authorities detained human-rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan as he was taking his daughter to school on Dec. 27, and upheld earlier prison sentences handed to other prominent political bloggers, including Nguyen Van Hai, Ta Phong Tan and Phan Than Hai.

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All this suggests that health care itself may not prove decisive at November's elections, even as that vote itself may end up determining the fate of health reform.

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Even further back, we remember that the only reason the Kingdom of Judea did not suffer the same fate as the Kingdom of Israel in the end of the 8th century BCE is because as the ten tribes of Israel were expelled into oblivion, King Hezkiyahu saved Jerusalem from the Assyrians.

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