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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.
由于在越来越好战的中国面临一系列困难，无怪乎富国的跨国公司开始对拉美产生新鲜感。
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.
但随着中国军力增强，美国国内可能会削减军备，加之朝鲜政权更不稳定、更喜欢寻衅滋事，人们再也不能想当然地看待东亚的安全环境。
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.
因为对气候威胁的认识已经引起人们的注意，像布什对《京都议定书》这样子协定温室气体排放的粗暴否决也导致了我们的蔑视。

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