核大国

A mere 15 years after its founding, it had joined the elite nuclear club.

使得中国仅仅在建国 15年之后跻身于"大国核俱乐部"。

Britain is trying not to dramatise the detention of the naval personnel – arrested by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in coastal waters on the border between Iran and Iraq on Friday – for fear of making the issue more difficult to resolve at a time when the world's big powers are seeking to convince Iran to return to negotiations over its nuclear programme.

伊朗革命卫队上周五在伊朗和伊拉克边境水域逮捕了15名英国海军人员。英国正在努力避免夸大事态，以免在世界大国试图说服伊朗重返核问题谈判的背景下，提高该事件的解决难度。

Both initiatives are partly ways of defusing regional tensions that may follow China's rapid growth as both an economic and a nuclear power.

两个倡议在某些方面都是减少作为经济大国和有核国家的中国快速发展带来的区域紧张感。

Russia wants to reassert its great-power independence and Iran is doubly helpful: its nuclear dealings with Iran are profitable, and Iran conveniently preoccupies America.

俄罗斯想要重申其大国独立意识，而伊朗是双倍助力。现在俄罗斯对伊朗的核交易是盈利的，而伊朗又顺便牵制了美国。

The big powers , possessors of the largest and most sophisticated nuclear and

拥有最多和最精良核与常规武库的大国，在实行军控与裁军方面负有特殊责任。

However, the proposal is likely to face fierce criticism in the US, where non-proliferation hawks in the US have attacked the proposal as legitimising India as a nuclear weapons power while it remains outside the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

但该提案可能会遭到美国国内的激烈批评，美国国内主张核不扩散的鹰派人士已攻击这项提案。他们指出，该提案将使印度作为一个核武器大国的地位合法化，而它仍处于《不扩散核武器条约》之外。

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。