Moreover, China's bid to become a global semiconductor powerhouse is propitiously timed.

此外，中成为全球半导体强的努力可谓恰逢其时。

Cuba, they say, has the potential to be a basketball powerhouse.

球员们表示古巴有着成为篮球强的潜力。

And strongmen consolidating powering countries like Turkey and Hungary.

强人们正在巩固像土耳其和匈牙利这样的强。

Once the region's economic powerhouse, today, the Japanese economy is struggling.

作为该地区曾经的经济强，日本经济现如今正处于挣扎之中。

It's an insanely large web of track that's helped ignite an economic powerhouse.

这是张巨大的铁路网络，它助个经济强的腾飞。

Quite simply, the United States had become the world's greatest economic power.

显然，美已经成为世界上最大的经济强。

It was a great world power, with colonies all over the world.

荷兰是当时的世界强，殖民地遍布全球。

Lenders in weak countries pay more to borrow than banks in strong ones.

在经济弱贷款要给的利率比在经济强的银行贷款更高。

So, a military buildup in the Black Sea is like an international show of power.

因此黑海的军事力量建设就像展现际强角力的舞台样。

At the time, they were one of the ancient world's great powers.

当时，他们是古代世界的强之。

Maybe. But America's clashes with these powers came when its own economy was growing.

事实或许如此。但美与这些强的冲突都是在内经济改善之时出现。

But, in fact, he has been steadily building alliances in areas where Western powers struggled.

但是，实际上，他直稳步地在西方强争取的地区建立联盟。

One of the world's major winter sports powers is out.

世界冰雪运动强之的俄罗斯被禁赛。

That was it for Britain and France as first-rank world powers.

英和法作为级世界强的历到此结束。

He calls China a friend, the rising regional power - which it is.

他称中是朋友，是正在崛起的地区强——事实的确如此。

Just over the weekend, the world's biggest economic powers, the so-called G-20, met in Rome.

就在周末，世界上最大的经济强，也就是所谓的20集团，在罗马举行会议。

And now, 237 years later, the United States – this improbable nation – is the greatest in the world. A land of liberty and opportunity. A global defender of peace and freedom. A beacon of hope to people everywhere who cherish those ideals.

距当时237年后的今天，美利坚合众，这个充满奇迹的度，已居于世界强的前列。她是片自由与机遇的土地，和平与自由的世界守护者，也是那些珍视这些价值的人们眼中的希望之光。

Some countries -- take Germany, an industrial powerhouse with a climate not that different from Vancouver's, by the way -- one day last December, got 81 percent of all its energy from renewable resources, mainly solar and wind.

些家—以德为例，这是个工业强和渥太华的气温没什么不样的，顺便提—去年12月的天，81%的能源都是通过再生资源获得的。主要是太阳能和风能。

The rich-world governments will have to step up like they do with all the aid things and come up with that money.

强的政府，将不得不采取行动，就像他们做出的援助那样并拿出这笔钱。

Most of the powerful countries in the world were involved in the war in one of two alliances (or groups of countries that work together during a war): the Allies and the Axis.

参加这场战争的世界上大多数的强分列两大同盟（或战争期间共同作战的家集团）：同盟和轴心。