"The wonderful thing about solar energy is that it's accessible and available everywhere in the world, from the cloudiest place in northern Europe to the sunniest place in north-central Africa to the Outback of Australia to South Asia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Part of that is that along with Northern Italy, the Netherlands and England/Great Britain have, by far, the most urbanized population in Europe.

部分原因是因为和意大利北部一样,荷兰和英国拥有,欧洲到目前为止最城市化的人群

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

First of all, it's not a coincidence that in both England and in the Dutch Republic you had, along with the city-states of Northern Italy, you had the largest percentage of middle-class population that you could find in Europe.

英国和荷兰共和国,以及北意大利的城邦,拥有全欧洲比例最大的中产阶级人群,这是有它的必然性的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He says the United States will deploy radar sensors and interceptors in northern and southern Europe on ships.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

In 2009,Russians marked 300 years since their country defeated Sweden in the decisive Battle of Poltava, in which Russia replaced that Scandinavian country as the great power of Northern Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25