German unification was not inevitable: outsiders, the new East German leadership and many West Germans wanted something else.

德国统一并非是必然：局外人，新东德领导人和许多西德人都想要其他的结果。

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These discontents are reverberations from German unification in 1990, which saddled the country with gargantuan costs and led to a decade-long quest to regain competitiveness.

这些不满是1990年德国统一之后留下的余音，当时耗资极其庞大，如一副重担压在国家肩头，不得不再花十年以重获竞争优势。

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Instead, he seems increasingly to have spent his time on ceremonial duties outside of Washington, such as attending the celebration marking the 20th anniversary of German unification.

反而，琼斯花在华盛顿圈外的礼节性职责方面的时间似乎越来越多，比如参加两德统一20周年庆典。

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for its support for German unification. "I wanted to use this opportunity today to express our gratitude, my gratitude to the American people for the support that the American people have given us throughout the process leading to German reunification,".

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Or, if you think of Berlin, you think of Germany, a unified Germany or in the Federal Republic before German unification, Berlin was terribly important.

或者,想想柏林,想想德国的情况,无论在统一的德国还是统一前的联邦德国,柏林都是一个十分重要的城市

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The scandal has destroyed his reputation as a leading European statesman and architect of German unification.

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Largely as a result, she made a complete mess of German unification, appearing simultaneously sullen and impotent.

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The last time it managed it was with German unification in the 1990s when tax incentives promoted investment in eastern Germany.

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