So I suppose scientific progress and world peace — and the things that we've all got in the back of our minds — have always got to drive us.

我想，科技进步和世界和平———以及我们理想中的一切事物——一直为我们提供着源源不断的动力。

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They have given an account of progress in behind-the-scenes peace talks and discussions.

与会者介绍了在不公开的和平谈判和磋商中取得的进展情况。

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It is progress that has been supported by a hard-earned peace, and strengthened by new Bridges of mutual understanding that have bound together the nations of this vast and sprawling space.

这方面的进步是在来之不易的和平环境中取得的，促使这一广袤地区的各国紧密联结的相互理解的新桥梁也会进一步增进这方面的进步。

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His aim is to ease decades of tensions between Muslims and the United States tensions heightened by the war in Iraq and lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

This agreement advances the political progress that can bring lasting peace and unity to Iraq and allow for the orderly and responsible transition of American combat troops out of Iraq by next September,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

And it is the example of Africans -- from Liberia to Mozambique to Sierra Leone -- that after the darkness of war, there can be a new day of peace and progress.

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To you and to the people of Ireland, America is grateful for our shared past, hopeful for our common future, and I assure you we will be a faithful partner in the work of progress and prosperity, and a just a lasting peace.

WHITEHOUSE: Friends of Ireland Luncheon

Add to the mix published reports that General David Petraeus - one of America's most prominent military officers as the four-star commander of Central Command and a leading architect of the Iraq surge - sees the lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" as a threat to American servicemen and women in his area of responsibility.

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