In its dispute with India, for example, it is the status quo power: it is happy with the present arrangements, so what has it to lose by talking for ever?

举个例子，在其与印度的争执中要的就是维持现状：它很乐意目前的安排，因此毫无休止的谈下去对它又有什么损失呢？

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Capricious endurance is bad, the work have no consistency, who can't form a coherent whole, or stagnation, or halfway retreat, or is the status quo power affect normal life and work.

反复无常持续性差，做事没有连贯性，凡是不能一气呵成，或停滞不前，或半路退缩，或安于现状影响正常生活和工作。

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We need to identify and reward voices that push hard against the status quo, that report eagerly and accurately and that speak truth to power.

我们需要确认和奖励那些为了改变现状而努力的声音，我们需要确认和奖励那些热切、准确的、对权力说真话的报道。

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Applying Occam's razor, the simplest answer may be that Iran just isn't the status quo power the soothers want to think it is.

ECONOMIST: It wants more than reassurance

Nor is China a status quo power.

ECONOMIST: The People's Republic at 60

Realignment with markets, re-establishing growth and improving profitability cannot begin until somebody removes those Status Quo police from power.

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