Just to drive home the point, South Korea today began week-long nationwide live fire naval drills in 29 locations around the periphery of the peninsula.

为证明这一点，韩国今天开始在半岛周边29个地点启动为期一周的全国海军实弹演习。

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The core members have been good stewards of their money and shouldn't have to bail out the periphery just to save a 10-year-old common currency.

核心成员国一直以来牢牢地看着自家的钱袋子，它们不必为了拯救只有十年历史的欧元而出手救助边缘国家。

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So even though it's just in the periphery of his vision -- it's just in the corner of his eye -- it's very powerful.

虽然仅仅是在他的视线边缘—— 他的眼角的余光里，它仍然非常强大。

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It is as though the ECB just looks at the German economy which had an impressive set of results lately, however, the EZ is more than just Germany and most of the economies on the periphery, including Ireland and Greece, are mired in recession.

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There is also disturbing evidence that the weakness in the so-called periphery countries has spread to the 'core' - not just France, where the index reflecting new manufacturing orders fell to its lowest level since 2009, but also to Germany.

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Because, as I have discussed many times before, this is not just a debt crisis for the so-called 'periphery' economies. (I think we are supposed to forget, in these conversations, that the EU came of age with the Treaty of Rome.) It is also a crisis of competitiveness.

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