He called the 2012 election neither fair nor democratic.

Perhaps the most vivid and significant example of this trend is the sight of a young, imperfect democracy-Ukraine-being brutalised by its large, authoritarian neighbour as the democratic world stands frozen on the sidelines.

这股逆流最鲜明和显著的例子或许是，年轻、尚不完美的民主国家乌克兰被庞大的威权主义邻国欺凌，民主世界却置身局外止步不前。

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Lipman says she does not expect gradual evolution toward greater Russian democracy without a crisis, such as the collapse in oil prices that underpin the country's current prosperity.

辱，但是今后再也不会了。”利普曼说，她不认为俄罗斯民主能够逐步进化而不会带来危机，一种可能的危机是，支持俄罗斯目前繁荣景象的石油价格猛烈下跌。

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Education may make people more interested in improving their own lives but they may not necessarily see democracy as the way to do it.

虽然教育是人们更注重改善他们自己的生活，但是他们也许不一定把民主作为达到目的的方法。

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It is impossible to establish democracy amid economic chaos.

经济秩序混乱不堪，是不可能建立民主的。

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Officials speak with justifiable pride about the hundreds of millions of people who have been lifted out of poverty. Influential pro-government academics, such as Shanghai's Zhang Weiwei, argue that the one-party system does not need a democratic mandate because it has "performance legitimacy," derived from improving the lot of ordinary people.

官员不无自豪地谈论着，中国数亿人已摆脱了贫困。如上海的张维为等富有影响力、支持政府的学者辩称，一党制不需要民主授权，因为这一制度了改善普通大众的命运，便从中获得了“绩效合法性”。

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Government officials defended the crackdown, saying they are not opposed to democratic rights, but merely want to maintain security.

政府官员为镇压辩护，声称他们不反对民主权利，而只想维护安全。

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It may not yet be democracy, but it is an indispensable milestone on the path to it.

这或许还算不上民主，但这是走向民主道路上一块不可或缺的里程碑。

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Far from promoting democracy, it insists that the American occupation and the pacifist Constitution emasculated Japan.

它不推行民主，反而主张美国的占领和和平主义的宪法是对日本的阉割。

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Well, that's what's so great about being in a democracy. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

我觉得给别人的想法扣上帽子非常的不民主。

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Some governments are pushing back, sometimes with undemocratic consequences.

一些政府正在进行反击，有时会造成不民主的后果。

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Corporate profits have skyrocketed to all-time highs& but for more than a decade, wages and incomes have barely budged.

企业利润飙升到了新高度但十多年来，薪资和收入几乎从未上升。

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How to make use of advantageous factors, solve the disadvantageous factors, push Sino-Japan economic cooperation to the new height?

如何利用有利因素，化解不利因素，把中日经贸合作推向新高度？

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His belief that his mostly inchoate economic reforms would spur a new level of production and productivity was a delusion.

他认为，自己刚刚启动的经济改革，能够推动产出和生产率达到一个新高度，但这只是一种妄想。

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An eloquent memo to staff can quell fears, dampen dissent, or inspire people to reach new heights.

对员工有说服力的提醒能消除恐惧，排除异议，鼓舞员工达到新高度。

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Chinese economic theory met with a splendid phase of development, reaching an unprecedented altitude in its own history.

这一时期中国经济理论迎来了辉煌的发展期，达到了中国近代以来前所未有的新高度。

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Your intuition is usually high, but today it's especially acute, as is your ability to concentrate.

你的直觉本来就很准了，但今天达到了新高度，同样也更容易集中注意力。

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Come on Economist, are you carrying your bashing and threat-theory to new height ( I mean this article)?

经济学人你得了吧，你打算把攻击和威胁论推向新高度么？

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Third, the formal category was always a vassal of the content category during the thirty years after liberation.

童庆炳、周宪在九十年代对形式范畴的论述，标志着建国后至今对形式范畴研究的新高度。

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All of these products had predecessors, but they managed to take their categories to a new level.

所有这些产品都有前辈，但它们做到了将其所属类别提升至一个新高度。

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New classical economics presented by Xiao Yang pushes the study of the externality theory to a higher stage.

以杨小凯为代表的新兴古典经济学利用内生交易成本与外生交易成本之间的矛盾来分析外部性问题，将外部性理论研究推推进到了一个新高度。

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