The transition from a dictatorship to a multi-party democracy is proving to be difficult.

事实证明，从专政国家到多党民主国家的转型是很艰难的。

in order to ensure a smooth transition from one reign to the next.

为确保改朝换代的顺利进行。

a period of transition.

一个转型时期。

Most of the discussion was on what needed to be done now as we transitioned from the security issues to the challenging economic issues.

随着我们已从安全问题逐渐转到具有挑战性的经济问题上，大多数讨论都集中在目前需要做什么上。