列强的侵略使中国开始逐步沦为半殖民地半封建社会，成为列强倾销商品和掠夺原料的场所。

Aggression by foreign powers in China has gradually become a semi-colonial semi-feudal society as dumping goods and predatory powers of the place of raw materials.

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由于中国作为一个资源丰富的贫弱帝国以及在战略地位上的重要性，对西方列强而言，它们对东亚侵略的矛头主要是针对中国，因而对日本的压力就相对减弱了。

China that had rich resources and importance of strategy was a poor and weak empire, and the western powers invaded chiefly China in East Asia, so their pressure on Japan had lessened.

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经济上，兴办洋务实业，打破了外国资本垄断，削弱了列强的经济侵略。

In economy, they engaged in the western-style industry and commerce, finishing the monopoly of the foreign capital and weakening the economic invasion of the big powers.

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