A player finds his ball in deep rough and the ball is barely visible.

Rough on the left and water on the right.

左边有长草，右边有水池。

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Although the prosperity is not evenly shared and there is still poverty in the countryside, we are confident that the trend of prosperity is going to continue and the people will be better off with each passing year. I can't talk about China without mentioning the political and democratic development.

尽管中国的发展还不很平衡，一些农村地区仍然存在贫困的现象，但我们相信，中国走向繁荣的步伐不会停止，老百姓的日子会一年比一年好。讲到中国，就不能不提到中国的民主政治建设。

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Instead, the JADE Act contains only non-binding language urging Chevron to consider divestment from the project if the military government does not move toward democratic and other reforms.

然而，“玉石法案”仅以不具约束力的行文敦促雪佛龙考虑，如果缅甸军政府不实行民主、不进行其它改革，就从该工程中撤回投资。

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But today's internet technology does not support freedom of assembly, and consequently does not support democracy.

但是，如今的互联网技术不支持集会自由，因而也不支持民主。

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The country that threw off dictatorship in 1987 is now as robust, if imperfect, a democracy as any in Asia, a rebuke to those who argue that Confucian societies or "Asian values" are somehow incompatible with the ballot box.

韩国早在1987年就抛弃了独裁统治，现在是一个不逊于亚洲其他任何一个国家的稳健（即使不完美）的民主国家，这是对那些辩称儒家社会或“亚洲价值观”与选举不相容的人们的驳斥。

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As authorities increase security in the run-up to the May 11 vote, analyst Moeed Yusuf of the United States Institute of Peace says it is unlikely that attacks will be able to derail the democratic process.

随着当局在5月11日投票前提高安全措施，美国和平研究所的分析师莫伊·尤瑟夫表示袭击不太可能破坏民主进程。

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It is unclear whether the democratically-elected government leaders will have the same stance or take a different approach to the security threats facing the country.

目前还不清楚，经过民主选举的新政府是会采取相同的立场还是会采取一条不同的方式来对付巴基斯坦所面临的安全威胁。

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The criticism was bipartisan, as lawmakers from both parties also highlighted the issue of bonuses paid by banks, and million-dollar salaries.

对金融机构的批评不分党派，民主、共和两党议员都特别谈到银行主管们数百万美元的工资和高额奖金。

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Hence it was a non-thoroughgoing national democratic revolutionary programme reflecting the weak and compromising character of the Chinese national bourgeoisie.

因此这是一次不彻底的民族民主革命，反映了中国民族资产阶级的软弱和妥协的性格。

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He called the 2012 election neither fair nor democratic.

他称2012年的选举既不公平也不民主。

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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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