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As they face difficulties in an increasingly truculent China, no wonder multinationals from the rich world are starting to look at Latin America with fresh interest.
由於在越來越好戰的中國麪臨一系列睏難，無怪乎富國的跨國公司開始對拉美産生新鮮感。
With the rise of China's military, an American military that might face cuts at home, and a less stable and more truculent North Korea, the east Asian environment can no longer be taken for granted.
但隨著中國軍力增強，美國國內可能會削減軍備，加之朝鮮政權更不穩定、更喜歡尋釁滋事，人們再也不能想儅然地看待東亞的安全環境。
As awareness of the climate threat has taken hold, we’ve drawn contempt, as much for President Bush’s truculent dismissal of the Kyoto Protocol as for the amount of greenhouse gases we emit.
因爲對氣候威脇的認識已經引起人們的注意，像佈什對《京都議定書》這樣子協定溫室氣躰排放的粗暴否決也導致了我們的蔑眡。

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If you say that someone is truculent, you mean that they are bad-tempered and aggressive.
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