A serious impediment to the attainment of both objectives is the present arms race.

实现这两个目标的一个严重障碍就是目前的军备竞赛。

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It is not easy to pivot briskly with a three-metre-long spear on one’s shoulder or to present arms with a bow and a loose bundle of arrows.

肩上扛着3米长的矛做出敏捷的转体动作或握着弓拿着松松垮垮的一袋箭摆出敬礼的姿势都很不容易。

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The soldier brought his halberd to a present-arms and said mockingly, "I salute your gracious Highness."

那个卫兵举起他的戟致敬，并嘲弄地说：“我给尊敬的殿下敬礼。”

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Instead,such arms were also present earlier.

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At the same time, the United States should seek to provide means of enforcing the present arms control regime banning first use of chemical weapons.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Banning Chemical Weapons: Negotiating Unilateral US Disarmament

Harley-Davidson ( HOG - news - people ) for its motorcycles, but all have lending arms at present.

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Coming on top of the Gorbachev regime's violation of the INF Treaty and its continued failure to destroy the Krasnoyarsk radar, it is hard to see how a Soviet commitment to continue its present foreign policy in the arms control arena is in the West's interest.

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