当英国汽车厂商满足于为国内市场生产质量平平的汽车时，劳斯莱斯成功地从一个英国公司转型为全球化的公司。
Whereas British car firms once contented themselves with making shoddy cars for the domestic market, Rolls-Royce has transformed itself from a British firm into a global one.
他自称“接受普通的苏维埃教育”：学习成绩平平，他毕业于一所烹饪学校。后来在格鲁吉亚的一所警犬培训学校服军役。
He had "a very ordinary Soviet upbringing" : an academic mediocrity, he ended up at culinary college, then did his military service in Georgia and at a dog-training school.
屋顶是勉强从地面显现的水平平台，这也将是唯一可见的人工干预痕迹，它并不会与城堡形成竞争，而是服务于城堡，并对城堡景色做补充。
The roof, a horizontal platform that barely emerges from the terrain, will be the only visible trace of an intervention that is not intended to compete with the Castillo it serves and complements.
是进化将我们玩弄于鼓掌之中吗？还是科学帮我们指点迷津？还是说是上帝让我们平平安安。
Is it evolution that takes us by hand? Does science point our way? Or is it god who intervenes, keeping us safe.
“世界最矮男人”纪录保持者何平平于去年早些时候去世，于是来自四川省合江县的黄开全着手申请该项纪录的下一位拥有者。
Following the death of the former record-holder He Pingping earlier last year, Huang Kaiquan, from Hejiang county, Sichuan Province, has stepped forward hoping to claim the record.
约翰·丹尼斯是英国诗人兼剧作家，写过一部悲剧叫《阿皮尔斯和维吉尼亚》。这部戏于1709年上演后反应平平，没有在商业上大获成功。
John Dennis, an English poet and playwright, wrote a tragedy called Appius and Virginia, which was produced in 1709 to less than rousing commercial success.
《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》在周一宣布，身高2.5英尺(75厘米)的何平平于上周末在罗马逝世，年仅21岁。
He Pingping, 2.5 feet tall (75 centimeters), died over the weekend in Rome, at age 21, Guinness World Records said Monday.
是进化将我们玩弄于鼓掌之中吗？还是科学帮我们指点迷津？还是说是上帝让我们平平安安。
Is it evolution that takes us by the hand, does Science point our way, or is it God who intervenes keeping us safe.
其他通过并购走向世界的印度大公司如果只满足于在国内称雄，他们的收益将不是平平就是惨淡。
Rightly so: other big Indian groups that have gone global through acquisitions, while lionised at home, have made returns ranging from mediocre to dismal.
其他通过并购走向世界的印度大公司如果只满足于在国内称雄，他们的收益将不是平平就是惨淡。
Rightly so: other big Indian groups that have gone global through acquisitions, while lionised at home, have made returns ranging from mediocre to dismal.
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