In 2009,Russians marked 300 years since their country defeated Sweden in the decisive Battle of Poltava, in which Russia replaced that Scandinavian country as the great power of Northern Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Sweden kind of disappears from the great power state when they're defeated by Peter the Great in--when is it?--1709.

在1709年被彼得大帝打败后,［此处指的是1709年的波尔塔瓦之战］

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He rises to a position of great power when he correctly interprets some dreams regarding an impending famine, and with Joseph as the governor of the country, in control of the grain supply, Egypt successfully weathers seven years of famine.

他荣升到掌握大权的地位,当他准确地解读了预示饥荒的梦，约瑟夫做国家的管理者，并且控制谷物供给时，埃及成功地避免了七年的饥荒。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This band has carried their faith and the great inspirational and resurrective power of rock and roll with them.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

The poem's great final question concerns that perception: "Did she put on his knowledge with his power"?

诗的最后一个很好的问题,就响应了前面那种看法：,她是否借他之力获得了知识？

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He said the United States must build up its sea power,too, if it wanted to be a great nation.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

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I lay awake nights,wishing to find the perfect lens - an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

And so in this perspective we have an image of the awesome power of the Deity Himself thundering away behind every jot and tittle of Milton's great epic.

从这个角度，我们能看到,上帝的神力隐去了,藏到了弥尔顿的史诗的一点一滴中。

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I lay awake nights, wishing to find the perfect lens an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

In many ways he is advancing a philosophic postulate of great scope and power, although the full development of the thesis is only left deeply embedded.

从很多方面看来,他是在向一种宏观视野,与权力的哲学式假说迈进，虽然这个论点并未发展完全,只是深植在他的想法中。

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Mahan wrote that all the great nations in history had possessed great sea power.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The Netherlands ceases to be a great power, whereas Britain in 1707 becomes the biggest of the world powers.

随着荷兰的衰落,一七零七年,英国成为了世界的霸主

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But Vanderbilt did succeed in winning a great amount of power and influence.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

How it ends up in the long run for the Dutch is that the Dutch cease to be a great power.

荷兰长远之后的下场,便是荷兰国力日衰,风光不再

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The Grand Canyon is proof of the power of this great river.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Over the long run, Great Britain remains a constitutional monarchy even in the nineteenth century, when Victoria had great prestige, she did not have great power.

长久以来,英国保持着君主立宪制,即使到了十九世纪,当维多利亚女王获得无上荣耀的时候,她并没有获得太多权利

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"It is a great medium to reach people, people in academics started to understand the power of gaming."

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The Netherlands also resisted absolutism, and the Dutch Republic remained the Dutch Republic; although, for reasons that we'll see later, the Dutch Republic ceases to be a great power in the 18th century.

荷兰抵制绝对统治的政体,保留了共合制,然而,后面我们将说到,荷兰共和国在十八世纪没落了

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The Hanwoo species is recognized as having great physical power and stamina."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

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North Korea's official Rodung Sinmun newspaper described the country as a "proud nuclear power" Monday, and warned it would be a "great mistake for the United States to think it will not be hurt" in the event of military conflict on the peninsula.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

It is an example of classic great power, absolute urban planning.

它是一个经过传统强权严格规划的城市典型

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I mean,how can we say that we want Karzai to do something about his brother's alleged narcotics activities, while apparently the CIA has been paying the same brother?" Former U.S.ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann tells VOA he believes President Karzai to be a decent man, but points out that he does not have a great deal of actual power outside of Kabul and has to be very careful about alienating some people.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Or Augustus--he had taken the title Augustus by this time, which means "the great"--he himself said, "I transferred the Republic from my power to the dominion of the Senate and the people of Rome."

或者奥古斯都。。。当时他已经使用了这个头衔，意思是“尊崇“，他说，“我已将共和国重还给,元老院及罗马人民统治“

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We can exaggerate the power of Peter the Great in this vast empire that's expanding south and already expanding toward Siberia and such distant places.

彼得大帝在自己幅员辽阔的帝国享有至高权力,这是怎么夸张都不过分的,他不断地向南边扩张,版图甚至已经触及到了,西伯利亚这样的边远地区

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