There is only one precedent for a group of broadly comparable industrial states living together in relative peace fordecadesonend, and that is Europe in the 19th century.
历史上大致相仿的若干工业国在连续数十年中取得相对和平,只有一个先例,那就是19世纪的欧洲。
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For the past few decades, though, it has been living on the afterglow of an economic miracle that came to an end in the 1970s.
过去几十年中,它回味着经济奇迹在1970年代终结后的余韵。
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Thee growth model on which China has relied for the past three decades is running out of steam - but this does not mean that the end is nigh for the world's second-biggest economy.