Such is the charm of Li, who showed nary a sign that she had the expectations of the world's most populous nation on her racket.
这就是李娜的魅力所在,她甚至丝毫没有流露出世界人口第一大国将期望都寄托在她的球拍上。If some Chinese politicians had not been at loggerheads with one another, China could have become a superpower.
如果一些老中政客没有彼此相斗,中国可能老早成为超强大国。'The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay, ' he said in a Thursday speech to the Australian Parliament.
奥巴马周四向澳大利亚国会发表演讲时说,美国是太平洋地区的一个大国,我们会一直在这里。But Hangzhou also reminds us that when China was the greatest power on earth, it was a society open to influences from all the known world.
但杭州也提醒我们,当中国是这个地球上首屈一指的大国时,他亦受到了来自整个已知世界的影响。Every time Tokyo makes a hesitant attempt to begin acting like the great power it should be, China beats the drums about the war.
每当日本没有表现出它应该有的大国风范时,中国就拿战争说事儿。Quite a few populous countries in the world lag far behind in the list. India, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt are all among the bottom 10.
好几个世界人口大国的排名都很靠后。印度、巴基斯坦、土耳其和埃及都在后10名之列。China, as you know, is an enormous country.
中国,正如你所知道的那样,是个大国。That was during the Cold War, when there was always competition among the superpowers to be first.
那是在冷战期间,当时的超级大国总是要争当第一。And one failed harvest is enough to turn Ethiopia, a nation of 66 million farmers, into a humanitarian catastrophe.
一次农业欠收足以让一个拥有66万农民大国的埃塞俄比亚陷入一场人道主义灾难。