Yet India's huge potential to be a force for stability and an upholder of the rules-based international system is far from being realized.

但是印度成为地区稳定重要力量的巨大潜力和成为对基于规则的国际关系体系的支撑者的目标远未实现。

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On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.

一九四一年五月二十四日，英国海军少校马尔科姆。华克莱恩指挥着潜艇支持者号，在西西里岛附近看见敌军的运兵船队，由多艘驱逐舰护送。

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He tried to give the impression of being an unbiased, objective upholder of the law. He was not, however, totally closed to honesty and fairness.

他尝试给人公正贤明、客观处事的守法印象，可是，他并非如此这般诚实公正。

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Having said that, it is worth also saying that Mr Sharif is an implausible upholder of the democratic ideal, that the country now needs an impartial judiciary more than ever before, and that this episode is not the end of the story: although, at 50, Pakistan might be considered ripe for a crisis of the mid-life variety, this one had more to do with growing up than growing old.

ECONOMIST: Showdown in Pakistan