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。

Banks in strong countries are lending less across borders.

经银行向外贷款数目减少了。

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。

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。

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，它助推了一个经腾飞。

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

在经弱贷款要给利率比在经银行贷款更高。

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经改善之时出现。

Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power.

数百年来，我们一直努力阻止欧洲陷于单一统治。

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

在21世纪, 中作为世界重新崛起正改变着际关系面貌。

Narang says Modi's speech about India as a space power will burnish his reputation as strong on defense.

纳兰表示，莫迪称印度成为太空讲话将提升他在化防方面声望。

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。

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

中在高速发展下取得了经地位，而印度偶尔也能达到类似增长速度。

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。

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。

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

当时，他们是古代世界之一。

The first is the continuation of Rome as a power in the world.

首先是罗马作为世界延续。

And strongmen consolidating powering countries like Turkey and Hungary.

们正在巩固像土耳其和匈牙利这样。

He stressed that the country's children today are a new force for building China into a great modern socialist country.

他调，当代中儿童是建设社会主义现代化新生力量。

Britain wants to maintain its position as a world power.

【maintain】英想保持其世界地位。

The unemployment rate in weak countries was none the worse than the world powers'.

弱失业率不比世界失业率更差。