As we all know, Japan is an advanced country.

我们都知道，日本是一个发达的国家。

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Yet the response you'd expect from an advanced country never happened.

你将从一个先进国家期望的反应还从未发生。

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Since we started living without the United States, we have become an advanced country.

自我们在没有美国的情况下开始生活后，我们已成为一个先进国家。

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An advanced country may be able to decouple economic growth and increasing volumes of material goods consumed.

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Educational standards are still quite inadequate for an advanced country that has to compete in the modern world and the kindest thing that can be said about health is that there have been modest improvements in care since 1997 - but at immoderate cost.

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How is it that such an advanced technologic country harbors so many vaccine luddites?

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