A few years ago, I belonged to an informal group offreelance writers andeditors who would assemble regularly to drink and talkshop.

几年前，我参加了一个业余自由作家组织，我们会定期组织在一起喝酒谈天。

All these factors taken together put her at the centre of an informal group of the states which can, at some stage, challenge the prolonged domination of the Western civilization.

所有这些因素加起来让她处于一个非正式国家集团的核心，该集团在某个阶段可能挑战长期作为主导的西方文明。