2019年同等学力英语练习---翻译(28)

　　The emergence of the European Union has been one of defining events of the twentieth century. It has changed the political, economic, and social landscapes of Western European, changed the balance of power in the world by helping Europe reassert themselves on the world stage, and helped to bring the longest uninterrupted spell of peace in European recorded history. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, Europe was a continent of competing powers that repeatedly fought with each other on their own soil and took their mutual hostilities to other continents in their competition to build colonial empires.

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　　欧盟的出现是20世纪起决定性作用的大事之一，欧盟重申其在世界舞台上的地位和作用，改变了西欧的政治、经济和社会全貌，改变了世界各地的力量均势，有助于带来欧洲有记载的历史上最为漫长的、持久的和平。直到20世纪初，欧洲仍是列强纷争，他们不仅在自己国土上与人再三争斗，而且在他们展开的建立殖民帝国的竞争中，将相互敌视带到了其它各洲。