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欧洲
European
European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
欧洲公民希望在欧盟内部和欧元内部也有一个公平的体系，这就是为什么我们必须有相当严格的纪律。
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
我一直很喜欢表现主义绘画，就像每个欧洲人一样。事实上，我更欣赏它，因为这些正是我父亲那一代人所鄙视的画作。
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
人们认为欧盟是一个单向的过程，是一个巨大的机器，从国家议会到欧洲层面的决策，直到一切都由欧盟决定。这种情况需要改变。
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
人们真正担心的是，欧元区的一家银行可能会倒闭，担心欧洲某个较大经济体会出现主权债务问题。这在很大程度上要归功于欧洲央行的行动。
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
土地是我们的。它不是欧洲的，我们拿走了，我们把它给了合法的人……那些碰巧在乡下务农的白人是受欢迎的，但他们必须在平等的基础上这样做。
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
文学史上最著名的，也是最难理解的事实之一是，至少在西欧文学中，散文式小说很晚才出现，而在两种伟大的古典语言中，我们所谓的散文式小说却相对缺乏。
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There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.
当然，欧洲有一个中央银行，它的结构类似于联邦储备系统，虽然不完全相同，但很相似。
The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.
今天，希腊人民投票支持希腊继续走欧洲道路，继续留在欧元区。
We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.
我们确实认为我们的国家利益与欧洲的利益是一致的。
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
享受欧洲之旅的时间大约是在开箱后的三周。
Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.
科索沃的命运显然是在某个时候加入欧盟。
I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.
我是欧洲人，小巧玲珑，但实际上我觉得自己更像个假小子。