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

此外，中成为全球半导体努力可谓恰逢其时。

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

球员们表示古巴有着成为篮球潜力。

And strongmen consolidating powering countries like Turkey and Hungary.

人们正在巩固像土耳其和匈牙利这样。

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

作为该地区曾，日本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.

这是一张巨大铁路网络，它助推了一个腾飞。

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

显然，美已成为世界上最大。

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

荷兰是当时世界，殖民地遍布全球。

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

在弱贷款要给利率比在银行贷款更高。

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

因此黑海军事力量建设就像展现际角力舞台一样。

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。但美与这些冲突都是在内改善之时出现。

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争取地区建立联盟。

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

世界冰雪运动之一俄罗斯被禁赛。

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

英和法作为一级世界历史到此结束。

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

他称中是朋友，是正在崛起地区——事实确如此。

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，也就是所谓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年后今天，美利坚合众，这个充满奇迹度，已居于世界前列。她是一片自由与机遇土地，和平与自由世界守护者，也是那些珍视这些价值人们眼中希望之光。

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.

一些家—以德为例，这是个工业和渥太华气温没什么不一样，顺便一提—去年12月一天，81%能源都是通过再生资源获得。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.

政府，将不得不采取行动，就像他们做出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.

参加这场战争世界上大多数分列两大同盟（或战争期间共同作战家集团）：同盟和轴心。