第二，美国和西方同盟国在战略物质上有重要利益，像矿物质和矿石，这些需要从不发达国家，像是菲律宾进口。

Second, the US and its western Allies have a vital interest in strategic materials, like mineral and ore, which have to be imported from less-developed countries like the Philippines.

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它在这个国家最大的岛屿Kwajalein上保持着重要的战略利益。

It retains important strategic interests on Kwajalein, the country's largest atoll.

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与此相反，这是两个重要与强大的国家，它们之间在密切合作之时，也存在分歧、抱有共识并且拥有长远的利益。

Rather, this is about two important and powerful nations that have some differences, some common ground, and a long-term interest in having strong working relations between their governments.

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But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

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