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America's relative decline is anything but assured, many analysts have begun to proclaim, with some adding that China's rise to global pre-eminence any time soon is highly unlikely.

很多分析家开始宣称，美国的相对衰退根本没有定论，有些人还表示，中国在短期内崛起成为全球一流强国的可能性非常小。

India has been striving to maintain its pre-eminence in the northern Indian Ocean, strengthen the maritime co-operation with other countries around this ocean and further expand its maritime interests to the southern Indian Ocean.

印度力求保持在北印度洋的海上优势，加强与印度洋沿岸其他国家的海上合作，并把海上利益进一步向南印度洋扩展。

As recently as the late 1990s, Britain's failure to join the newly created eurozone appeared to threaten London's pre-eminence as Europe's leading financial centre.

就在20世纪90年代末期，英国未能加入新创建的欧元区这一结果，似乎威胁到了伦敦作为欧洲领先金融中心的突出地位。

London has not achieved its international pre-eminence by standing still but its genius, indeed the British genius, is to build on what went before.

伦敦之所以能取得如今的国际优势地位，并不是凭借其保持不变的能力，相反，伦敦的天赋在于能够在过去的基础上开拓创新。

While the World Bank struggles to redefine its role and pre-eminence, the IMF looks forward.

当世行艰难地重新界定自身角色和突出地位时，IMF正在向前看。

The brand-name culture of an enterprise moulds itself and its products by invisibly and powerfully cultural factors and contributes to its pre-eminence in the age of brand.

企业名牌文化正是通过无形而有力的文化因素来塑造企业及其产品，使企业在品牌竞天下的时代脱颖而出。

[不可数名词]to achieve pre-eminence in public life

成为出色的公众人物

They argue that China needs to use its growing power and economic resources to carve out its own position of pre-eminence.

作者认为，中国需要利用自身不断增长的力量和经济资源建立大国地位。

As a result, the US needs the rest of the world to maintain its pre-eminence, not to dissolve it.

正因为此，美国需要其它国家来保持而非消弥它的卓尔不群。

The rise of the BRICs, their deep wells of money and lighter regulation will inevitably see London lose some of its pre-eminence.

随着金砖四国的崛起，它们庞大的资金储备和相对宽松的监管环境，不可避免会令伦敦丧失一部分光环。

How is the financial crisis affecting the race for global pre-eminence between New York and London?

金融危机对纽约与伦敦争夺全球卓越地位的竞赛影响如何？

A couple of years ago, however, its pre-eminence came into question, with supermodels refusing to get out of bed for anything other than euros.

然而，两三年前，美元的优越地位开始受到质疑。超级名模拒绝走台，除非付的是欧元。

The dollar's global pre-eminence would be threatened, as would America's status as the world's financial centre.

这将使美元在全世界的优先地位和美国作为全球金融中心的角色，一并受到威胁。

The distinctive feature of the City cluster is the pre-eminence of foreign financial firms.

金融城的优势在于拥有众多著名的国外银行。

It'has risen to pre-eminence through the'Occupy Movement ', the occupation of Iraq and the so-called'Occupied Territories'.

同时，占领一词在“占领伊拉克”和“被占领土”等词汇中也有广泛应用。

I certainly do not want to see Britain lose its pre-eminence in financial services, but a measure of rebalancing seems appropriate.

我当然不想看到英国失去在金融服务业的卓越地位，但一定程度的再平衡看来很有必要。

Q: have you been surprised by pre-eminence of Renault so far this season? Did you really expect to pick up where you left off racing last year?

问：到赛季目前为止，你对雷诺的杰出表现觉得惊讶吗？你真的认为能够重新获得去年离开时的状态吗？

If America was indeed in something like an "imperial" mood in 2003, it simply meant the US was determined to use its economic and military pre-eminence to change the world.

如果美国在2003年真的拥有某种“帝国”式情绪，那只是意味着美国决心利用其优势的经济和军事力量改变世界。

It has floated the idea of an international currency to replace the dollar, a sign it regards the days of us pre-eminence as numbered.

中国提出了结束美元作为国际货币的想法，这显示在中国看来，美国优势地位的日子不长了。

The idea of questioning the dollar's pre-eminence has received backing from other nations with agendas of their own.

质疑美元突出地位的想法，已得到了有自己议程的其它国家的支持。

As China and India rise towards global pre-eminence, their great conurbations are becoming altogether less neurotic about their imperial pasts.

随着中国和印度逐渐崛起为世界强国，两国的大都市基本上都能越来越坦然地面对自己在帝国时代的历史。

Sany established a research centre in Germany because of German pre-eminence in manufacturing and engineering.

考虑到德国在工程制造方面的顶尖地位，三一重工在该国成立了一个研发中心。

The imperative for Singapore to maintain its pre-eminence as an international trading and financial centre.

新加坡保持国际贸易与金融中心的卓越地位是绝对必要的。

The convenor, knowing the pre-eminence of this individual increased the cost of attending the lectures without consulting them first.

大会的召集者知道这位显赫的学者的到来将会使参加会议的费用增加，但却没有事先咨询其他的参加者。

His pre-eminence in his subject is internationally recognized.

他在他的领域里的杰出成就受到国际承认。

That symbolic battle will be replicated in Beijing as the US and China duel for sporting pre-eminence.

美苏那场具有象征意义的争斗将在北京重现：美国将与中国争夺体坛首要地位。

America, by contrast, will inevitably balk at surrendering its pre-eminence.

与此相反，美国将会不可避免的退缩，最终交出其卓越的领导地位。

Mr Bush has given pre-eminence in foreign policy to missile defence.

布什总统的外交政策非常重视导弹防御。

Meanwhile the BAHA Mar project, due to be completed in 2014, will challenge the pre-eminence of the Atlantis resort as the cool tourist destination.

此外，定于2014年竣工的baha mar项目将对另一个热门旅游目的地亚特兰蒂斯度假村（atlantis resort）的领先地位提出挑战。

Despite London's global pre-eminence in banking, barely a quarter of last year's MBA graduates took jobs in the financial services sector, down from more than a third in 2010.

尽管伦敦的银行业在全球首屈一指，但是去年仅有不足四分之一的MBA毕业生进入了金融服务业，低于2010年的逾三分之一。