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France has resisted international criticism over the sale of warships to Russia
四百名俄羅斯海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)員已經(jīng)抵達(dá)法國(guó)，準(zhǔn)備在法國(guó)出售給俄國(guó)海軍的兩艘軍艦上接受培訓(xùn)。盡管受到美國(guó)和其他盟國(guó)的批評(píng)，但是法國(guó)總統(tǒng)奧朗德拒絕取消這筆軍艦交易。以下是 BBC 駐巴黎記者 Christian Fraser 發(fā)回的報(bào)道:
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This is a deal worth €1.2 billion to France – not to mention the jobs.
But it sorely undermines France's position – they've been one of the countries pushing Germany to take a tougher line with Russia over the recent unrest in eastern Ukraine.
President Obama has made his feelings clear. "It would have been preferable," he said, "to press the pause button".
The Hollande government says the current sanctions agreement doesn't cover military hardware and the contract, signed by President Sarkozy's government in 2011, is too expensive to cancel.
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- sorely嚴(yán)重地
- undermines破壞，削弱
- to take a tougher line 采取一種更為強(qiáng)硬的立場(chǎng)
- unrest動(dòng)蕩局勢(shì)
- to press the pause button 按下暫停鍵，這里指暫停交易
- hardware硬件設(shè)備，裝備
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