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

此外，中国成为全球半导体强国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国的潜力。

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国。

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

作为该地区曾经的经济强国，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.

这是一张巨大的铁路网络，它助推了一个经济强国的腾飞。

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

显然，美国已经成为世界上最大的经济强国。

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

荷兰是当时的世界强国，殖民地遍布全球。

Banks in strong countries are lending less across borders.

经济强国的银行向国外的数目减少了。

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

在经济弱国给的利率比在经济强国的银行更高。

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国际强国角力的舞台一样。

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

当时，他们是古代世界的强国之一。

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

事实或许如此。但美国与这些强国的冲突都是在国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，他一直稳步地在西方强国争取的地区建立联盟。

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

世界冰雪运动强国之一的俄罗斯被禁赛。

Overall, the Holy Roman Empire in the modern world would be an absolute powerhouse.

总的来说，神圣罗马帝国在现代世界将是一个绝对的强国。

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

英国和法国作为一级世界强国的历史到此结束。

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

他称中国是朋友，是正在崛起的地区强国——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国，也就是所谓的20国集团，在罗马举行会议。

In the 21st century, China's re-emergence as a world power is changing the face of international relations.

在21世纪, 中国作为世界强国的重新崛起正改变着国际关系面貌。

It occasionally grows at the kind of pace that propelled China to the status of economic superpower.

中国在高速发展下取得了经济强国的地位，而印度偶尔也能达到类似的增长速度。