He tries not only to copy European absolutism, but to open up Russia to commerce, realizing that trade meant wealth and that wealth meant improvements in the lives of the Russian people.

他不仅试图仿效欧洲的绝对主义,也开放了俄国的商业贸易,他意识到贸易意味着财富,而财富则等同于俄国民众生活水平的提高

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The other thing about it is that you could make lots of things that are new but generally you think of engineers as making things that are not just new but they're useful, that they do something that needs to be done, and that they do something that improves life, the quality of life of people.

另一个区别是,科学家会做很多很多新鲜玩意儿,而一般来讲,工程师做的东西不只是新奇,它们还很有用,他们做那些需要做的东西,他们做的东西能够提高,人类的生活水平和生活质量

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