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Suffering, humiliation, blood and tears, and finally make the people rise to fight. October 1, 1949 establishment of the PRC, Beijing became the capital of the nascent republic, the history of the ancient city opened a new page.

苦难、屈辱、血泪，终于使人民起而抗争。1949年10月1日，中华人民共和国成立，北京成为新生的共和国的首都，古城的历史揭开了新的一页。

As the first democratic republic in German history, Weimar demonstrated its democratic spirit not only in political systems, but also in economic activities. The dual mechanism: the Group Contract System across different enterprises, and the "co-determination" inside the enterprise, marked a major achievement of the democratization process of the labor relations in Weimar period.

作为德意志历史上第一个民主共和国，魏玛共和国的民主不仅体现在政治制度上，而且也反映在经济生活中，尤其是建立了跨企业层面的集体合同制和企业层面的企业共决制双重机制，是德国劳资关系民主化进程的重大进步。

General Kurt von Schleicher, who like his immediate predecessor, Franz von Papen, cared little for the Republic and less for its democracy, and who, also like him, had ruled as Chancellor by presidential decree without recourse to Parliament, had come to the end of his rope after fifty-seven days in office.

库特·冯·施莱彻尔将军，像他的前任弗朗兹·冯·巴本一样，一点也不喜欢共和国，更谈不上喜欢共和国的民主了，而且他也像他的前任一样，未经议会授权，是靠总统命令担任总理一职的。在执政57 天之后，他就已到了山穷水尽、走投无路的地步。

The PRC initiated attempts at diplomatic relations with the U.S., as early as 1950 and sought recognition for China on the basis of its full sovereignty, which includes the restoration of Taiwan as an integral part of the People's Republic and the seating of China in the UN instead of the quisling Chiang regime.

中华人民共和国早于1950年就试图和美国建立外交关系，在主权独立的问题上寻求美国的认可，包括承认台湾是中华人民共和国的一部分，中国在联合国的席位，而不是卖国的蒋介石政府。

An agreement at the *Yalta Conference* permitted the Soviet Union to annex almost all of their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact portion of the Second Polish Republic, compensating the People's Republic of Poland with the southern half of East Prussia and territories east of the Oder-Neisse Line.

雅尔塔会议的协定允许苏联吞并《苏德互不侵犯条约》规定的波兰第二共和国的几乎所有地区，给波兰人民共和国补偿东普鲁士的南部和奥得—尼斯线(第二次世界大战末期同盟国所制定的波兰与德国的边界线)的东部地区。

A usual occasion to find this trick in use is in press conferences, where spokespersons turn to giving nonsense answers to sharp, embarrassing questions instead of using "no comment" to divert reporters' attention, while trying to give the impression of being humorous, witty and charmful at the same time.

比如我写这个帖子时，我身边的电视机中正在报告一条新闻，大意是海地总统Jean-Bertrand Aristide由于国内动乱，流亡到中非共和国首都Bangui，Aristide声称自己是被美国士兵绑架的，而中非共和国的外交部长则要求Aristide闭嘴，不要乱讲话。听完这条新闻后，我头脑中马上闪现出下面这句话，把这件事情的后果，简单总结了一下，这就是&用英语思考&。

By the time Nepal's princelings woke up they were citizens of a republic.

而此时尼泊尔的小王子们已经开始意识到自己是共和国的公民（译注：2008年，尼泊尔制宪会议通过决议废除240年的王室，成立共和制，成为一个民主共和国）。

IN KINSHASA, the vast and sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the disabled have enjoyed just two state-sponsored perks: half-price passage on the ferry across the Congo river to Brazzaville, capital of the smaller (and arguably even less democratic) Republic of Congo; and free entry to the city's derelict zoo, which houses a handful of mangy animals.

在这里，伤残人士享受着政府提供的两项福利：一是半价渡船过刚果河去布拉扎维，即刚果共和国的首都（比刚果民主共和国小点，而且据说没那么民主）；二是免费进入城市的废弃动物园，里面住的都是些长满疥癣的动物。

According to the 1972 Japan-China Joint Communique , the Government of Japan fully understands and respects the position of the Government of the People's Republic of China's position that Taiwan is an inalienable territory of the People's Republic of China, and it firmly maintains its stand under Article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation [1] , which states The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine.

&根据1972年日本与中国的联合公报，日本政府充分理解和尊重政府的立场，对中国人民共和国的立场，即台湾是不可分割的领土的人民共和国的中国，它坚定地保持了其立场，根据第8条的波茨坦公告 [ 1 ] ，其中国家&的条款，在开罗声明应当进行和日本的主权，应仅限于该群岛的honshū，町， kyūshū，四国等小离岛，因为我们确定。

It cost the British prime minister, Anthony Eden, his job and, by showing up the shortcomings of the Fourth Republic in France, hastened the arrival of the Fifth Republic under Charles de Gaulle.

它葬送了安东尼·艾登的英国首相职位，以及他的成果，通过暴露法兰西第四共和国的弱点，它也加速了夏尔·戴高乐的法兰西第五共和国的到来。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。