今天的土耳其确实在很多方面都比那个曾在一个世纪以前奥斯曼帝国土崩瓦解后被称作“欧洲病人”的土耳其进步许多。

Indeed, in some ways it counts for more than when the Ottoman empire was crumbling a century ago and Turkey was widely known as the "sick man of Europe".

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在很大程度上土耳其忽视了该地区的其他国家，其中大多数曾是奥斯曼帝国的一部分。

It largely ignored the rest of its region, which includes most of the countries that were once part of the Ottoman empire.

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北约成员国中只有土耳其和挪威与苏联接壤，但土耳其亲西方的立场使其忽视了邻居，其中包括很多曾经属于奥斯曼帝国的国家。

Turkey and Norway were the only NATO members to border the Soviet Union. But Turkey's pro-Western stance led it to neglect its neighbourhood, including many countries once in the Ottoman empire.

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