great-power

基本解释

Governments hate the idea of a shrinking population because the absolute size of GDP matters for great-power status.
政府不愿意看到人口的收缩，因为GDP的绝对大小关乎强国的地位。
By background, she is a hard-edged realist, a believer in the uses of American power and the importance of great-power relations.
从背景上看，她是个坚定的现实主义者，笃信美国的实力，重视大国关系。
The unfortunate fact that China's new interests overlap with those of the current dominant power is nothing new in the history of great-power collisions.
而不幸的是中国新的利益增长点和其他世界大国发生重合，这种现象在历史上的大国冲突中已经屡见不鲜。
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I lay awake nights,wishing to find the perfect lens - an instrument of great magnifying power.
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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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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The grouping could thus become a victim of a new era of great-power rivalry in the region.
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a nation that has exceptional political influence, resources, and military strength

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At present, China is puzzled by such "growing trouble of great power".
这种“大国成长的烦恼”也正在困扰着中国。
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Now China is one of the world biggest countries in term of steel production but not the great power.
虽然现在中国是世界钢铁大国,但还不是世界钢铁强国。