Meanwhile, basic state functions are increasingly supported by international aid sent to prevent total state failure.

与此同时，为了防止国家全面崩溃，有越来越多的国际援助支持基本的国家职能。

State failure, it appears, does not necessarily go hand in hand with other human woes, such as poverty.

似乎政权衰败并不总是与人类其它灾难——例如贫穷——共进退。

We have a shared interest in eliminating the conditions that contribute to global insecurity and state failure.

我们在致力于消除全球不安全和国家失职方面利益相同。

Also, it has to be said, in certain areas, weak governance and state failure, ” he said.

此外，必须说，在某些领域， 治理薄弱和国家失败， ” 他说。

It's - you can't really imagine much more of a metric for state failure than the mass kidnapping of children in a place where they should be safe.

儿童在本该安全的地方遭遇大规模绑架，真的很难想象还有什么比这更能衡量一个国家的失败。

Perhaps, some may say, it shows that state failure is an extremely elastic term, embracing both countries in total collapse (Somalia, Chad) and those which merely contain large ungoverned spaces.

有人也许会说，这反映了政权衰败是一个很灵活的用语，既包括哪些完全分崩瓦解的国家（如索马里和乍得），也包括那些有大半领地处于无政府管辖的国家。