As everyone knows, Spratly Islands has been the domain of China since the ancient time, and there has never been a country who asks territorial claim to them before 1960s
众所周知，南沙群岛从古代起就一直是中国的领土，而且在20世纪60年代以前也从未有过哪一个国家对它们提出领土要求。
As recently as 1995, China alarmed its neighbors when its armed forces occupied one of the larger specks of rock, aptly named Mischief Reef, that formed part of the Spratly Islands (around which large oil deposits are reckoned to lie).
最近在1995年，中国武装部队占领了斯普拉特利群岛美济礁中的较大一块礁石（据估计周围蕴藏有大量石油），这引起了邻国的不安。
That set it against rival claimants to some or all of it: Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei, as well as Taiwan. As recently as 1995, China alarmed its neighbours when its armed forces occupied one of the larger specks of rock, aptly named Mischief Reef, that formed part of the Spratly Islands (around which large oil deposits are reckoned to lie).
这使得他与另外几个也声称对此有主权的国家：越南、马来西亚、菲律宾、文莱，还有台湾地区产生了矛盾。1995年，中国将军队占领了一块比较大的岩礁—南沙群岛的一部分美济礁视为对邻国发出的警告。
I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.
我嚴正警告她，如果她希望來年加工資，她最好週日在皇后像廣場上告訴她的同胞，整個南沙是屬於中國。
This is the case with virtually all the islands being disputed on Paracel and Spratly archipelagos.
几乎所有在西沙和南沙有争议的海岛都属于这种情况。
China, Vietnam and Taiwan all claim the Spratly Islands, a string of mostly uninhabited reefs and shoals in the South China Sea that are believed to sit atop large oil and gas deposits.
中国大陆、越南和台湾都声称南沙群岛属于自己领土。南沙群岛是中国南海上一连串大多无人居住的礁石和浅滩，人们认为其海底拥有丰富的石油和天然气资源。
Yet, apart from claims over the virtually uninhabited Spratly and Paracel Islands, China is not expansionist: it already has its empire.
但除了声索实际上无人居住的南沙与西沙群岛以外，中国并无领土扩张野心：它已经有了自己庞大的版图。
China's choice of a good time and breakthrough in the waters of the Spratly Islands, held an unprecedented large sea-sky three-dimensional military exercises.
我国选择好时机及突破口，在南沙群岛海域举行了一次空前规模的大型的海空立体军事演习。
The other major claimant in the area is the Philippines, which invokes its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis of its claim for part of the grouping.
另一个主要的原告是菲律宾，调用他地理位置邻近南沙群岛的优势，加入这个要求主权的群体。
Hanoi has responded by seeking to internationalise the territorial dispute, calling on other claimants to some of the contested Paracel and Spratly Islands – Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan – to hold joint talks and attempting to bring in the US as a mediator.
针对这种局面，越南寻求将领土争端国际化，呼吁其他主张对有争议的西沙和南沙群岛拥有部分主权的方面文莱、马来西亚、菲律宾和台湾举行联合谈判，并试图请出美国当调停人。
Some also believe that the contested Spratly and Paracel islands sit on vast oil and gas reserves, a claim yet unproven.
一些人还认为，存在争议的南沙群岛和西沙群岛坐拥庞大的油气储备，这一说法尚未得到证实。
The new Luogang District and the Spratly Islands District, Guangzhou is the economic future of both the two major " economic engine " of the upgrade.
这次新增的萝岗区和南沙区，就是这两个广州经济未来两大“经济发动机”的升格。
Japan renounces all right, title and claim to the Spratly Islands and to the Paracel Ialands.
日本放弃对南沙诸岛及西沙诸岛之一切权力，权利及主张。
The new Luogang District and the Spratly Islands District, Guangzhou is the economic future of both the two major " economic engine " of the upgrade.
这次新增的萝岗区和南沙区，就是这两个广州经济未来两大“经济发动机”的升格。