When the Iron Curtain lifted, we expanded our alliance to include the nations of Central and Eastern Europe, and built new bridges to Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union.

当铁幕被打破的时候，我们扩大了我们的联盟，纳入了东欧和中欧国家，建立了与俄罗斯和前苏联加盟共和国交往的新桥梁。

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Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.

土耳其和希腊是反苏国家与前苏联之间的缓冲国。

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The United States says they are not prepared to join in normalizing ties with their former enemy.

美国声称他们不准备与他们的前敌建立正常化的关系。

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The convention named former United States Senator Jefferson Davis to be president of the Confederate States of America.

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My stepfather was a former priest, one of the early black men ordained to the priesthood in the United States.

我的继父原先是一名牧师，是美国早期参与到,牧师事业中的黑人之一。

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One is Dubna in the former Soviet Union in Russia, one is in Darmstadt in Germany and the third one is in the United States in Berkeley.

一个是在杜布纳，位于前苏联的俄国，一个在德国的达姆施塔特,第三个是在美国的伯克利。

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The study was carried out by a panel consisting of a former States member, an economist and an independent economic consultancy group.

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One outfit, called Itera, bought gas from Gazprom and the central Asian nation of Turkmenistan, resold it on the market to Ukraine and other former Soviet states and acted as a sort of guarantor that Gazprom would be paid by indebted former Soviet states.

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That was impossible without at least some of the former Confederate states joining in this ratification.

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