NATO will continue to thin out its forces.(北约将继续裁军。)
France was going to pull out of NATO.(法国准备退出北大西洋公约组织。)
NATO Allies have lost some 570 soldiers.(北约盟国失去了570名士兵。)
In April it may be invited to join NATO.(明年四月,它可能会被邀请加入北约。)
NATO later admitted it had been testing new sonar technology in the same area at the time as the strandings had occurred.(北大西洋公约组织后来承认,在搁浅发生时,他们正在同一海域测试新的声纳技术。)
He argues strongly for retention of NATO as a guarantee of peace.(他据理力争北大西洋公约组织作为一个和平保障的保留。)
NATO is right to be debating the problem.(北约联盟已经做好讨论处理该问题的准备。)
If there is nothing for Moscow to fear in NATO and EU expansion, its members should not act as if there is.(如果俄罗斯对于北约和欧盟扩张行为的担忧无关紧要,那么它的成员国也不该表现得那么紧张。)
Second, NATO as a whole will count for much less.(其次,北约作为一个整体的重要性将大为降低。)
But that, as NATO officials say, is the easy bit.(但像北约官员说的那样,这只是容易的一头。)