It demonstrates the country's rising star power.

表明黎巴嫩是一颗冉冉上升的新秀。

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

他称中国是朋友，是正在崛起的地区强国——事实的确如此。

The impression of an aggressive rising power is hard to shake off.

中国这咄咄逼人的强权的印象恐怕难以抹去了。

The project was launched as authorities searched for ways to minimize rising power bills.

当局在设法减少上涨的电费支出时启动了该项目。

As a rising power, China is in a position to contribute more to global efforts to curb such problems.

作为一个正在崛起中的大国, 在全球努力遏制这种问题方面中国能够做出更多。

Throughout history, rising powers have come to blows with waning ones: think of Germany in 1914 or Japan in the 1930s.

历史上，那些崭露头角的国家必然会与势力渐衰的大国发生碰撞，1914年的德国和20世纪30年代的日本就是如此。

On the surface all three point to rising corporate power.

从表面上看，这三者都表明企业实力不断增强。

Western policymakers are deluded to think that they can use their twilight of pre-eminence to lock rising powers into their own values and institutions.

西方决策者蒙蔽双眼，自认为他们可以利用自身统领世界的最后暮光限定崛起的力量于他们自己的价值观与体系内发展。

And you have a situation when there's a rising power challenging existing power.

你会遇到一种情况，即有一个正在崛起的力量挑战现有的力量。

He said Chinese state media seek to project an image of a rising world power.

他说，中国官方媒体试图塑造一个正在崛起的世界大国的形象。

Today the interventionist policy of the country is increasingly countered by rising powers such as Russia and China.

如今， 该国的干涉主义政策日益受到俄罗斯和中国等新兴大国的反击。

The news came at a moment when India is promoting itself as a rising global power as the host of this year's Group of 20 summit.

这一消息传出之际，印度正以今年20国集团峰会东道主的身份宣传自己是一个正在崛起的全球大国。

It's this: what is the best way for the West to constrain the new rising powers that are emerging?

问题是：西方遏制新兴大国的最佳方式是什么？

The same story was true in Europe. But France was worried about the rising power of the Nazis in Germany and the Fascists in Italy and Spain.

在欧洲，情况也是如此。但是，法国担心德国纳粹势力和意大利、西班牙法西斯势力的崛起。

In the 12 century economic threats rose in the West as rising Italian Naval powers like Venice and Genoa started cutting Byzantine Empire out of Eastern markets.

12世纪来自西方的经济威胁渐盛，兴起的海上意大利城市如威尼斯和热那亚也开始把拜占庭挤出东部市场。

And even if the rising powers do come to share the West's values, they will clash over status and prestige, because they feel that this is their turn for a place in the sun.

即使崛起中的力量确实共享西方的价值观，他们也会因攫取地位与威望而产生冲突，因为他们觉得该轮到他们占居尊位。

A few years later, the country's oil would be back on the international market. Iran for its part opens its market to new rising Asian powers, such as China and India.

几年后，伊朗的石油将重返国际市场。伊朗则向中国和印度等新兴亚洲大国开放市场。

There is much talk of the " Thucydides trap" : the inevitability of a clash between a rising power and an established one, as Athens challenged Sparta in the fifth century bc.

人们经常谈论“修昔底德陷阱”：当雅典在公元前五世纪挑战斯巴达时，新兴大国与老牌大国之间不可避免地发生冲突。

So for a variety of reasons, including the increase in immigration as well as the rising power – the increasing power of labor unions, compulsory education became more common and the amount of education required increased.

因此，由于各种原因，包括移民的增加以及权力的增加——工会权力的增加， 义务教育变得更加普遍， 所需的教育量也增加了。

I told Baba about that and he said my teacher was one of those jealous Afghans, jealous because Iran was a rising power in Asia and most people around the world couldn't even find Afghanistan on a world map.

我将这个告诉爸爸，爸爸说我的老师不过是个嫉妒的阿富汗人，他嫉妒，因为伊朗在亚洲声望日隆，而世界上多数人看世界地图的时候还找不到阿富汗在哪里。