This ambiguity between the common good and national interests complicates all financial negotiations-including any that will follow the G20 summit.

公共利益与国家利益的含糊不清使得所有的金融谈判变得复杂，G20峰会之后也一样。

Congress is a bit like France: prickly, status-obsessed, ruthless in defending national interests and addicted to subsidies for special interests such as farmers or industrial champions.

美国国会与法国政府有一定的相似之处：棘手、难缠、无情的守护国家利益，热衷于特殊的津贴，如农民的补助或者是领先工业的津贴。

We need a clear appreciation of national interests and the recognition that our resources and the lives of those in uniform are a scarce and precious commodity that must not again be expended lightly.

我们需要一个明确承认的国家利益，我们的物资和士兵的生命是一种稀缺和宝贵的资源，绝不能再次掉以轻心地花费。

But the reality is that the core national interests of both countries have no major, existential issues in conflict.

但现实情况是，两国的核心国家利益中没有存在沖突的任何重大现存问题。

In the past, regional rivalries and national interests have stalled the process and it remains to be seen whether that will happen again.

过去，地区竞争和国家利益使改革过程停滞不前，这样的情况是否会再现，人们仍然拭目以待。

Or rather, it is a distraction to judge the euro crisis as a tussle between those clinging to national interests and those ready to centralise more power in the eu.

或者说，它忽略了这样一种现实，即欧元危机背后实际上是派系争斗，其中一派固守国家利益不放，另外一方则期待在欧盟内部实现集权。

But, for once, Mr Sarkozy「s personal and France」s national interests may coincide.

但是这一次，萨科奇的个人利益和法国国家利益是一致的。

In the financial sector, enhanced international co-operation is needed to overcome possibly divergent national interests and so achieve meaningful reform in 2010.

至于金融部门，加强国际合作则需要克服一些国家利益的分歧，才能在2010年完成有意义的改革。

What is missing is a definition of national interests which, I believe, are not coterminous with global peace and stability.

未被提到的是国家利益的定义，我认为它是与全球和平与稳定没有共同边界的。

The cold calculation of national interests is a complex business, as any student of game theory can tell you.

对国家利益的计算是个复杂问题，任何一个学过博弈论的学生都知道这一点。