In contrast to the compressed verticality system, in this system, commodities rather than people circulated through the archipelago.

与压缩的垂直系统相比，在这个系统中，是商品而不是人在群岛上流通。

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"The Gulag Archipelago" described the system, its tortures, rules and subculture, in relentless, gruesome, encyclopedic form.

《古拉格群岛》描述的系统，是充满折磨，统治和亚文化的，以一种无情的，可怕的，包罗万象的形式存在的系统。

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"The Gulag Archipelago", published in 1973, had shaken the very foundations of the Soviet system, but it did not make the country immune from the restoration of Soviet symbols and elements.

1973年出版的《古拉格群岛》一书撼动了苏联体制的基础，但此书却无力阻止苏联遗毒沉渣泛起。

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The Big Board countered that Archipelago's trading system was so bad its quotes weren't to be trusted.

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The legal system of the Maldives, an Islamic archipelago with a population of some 400, 000, has elements of Islamic law (Sharia) as well as English common law.

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Stalin established a hideous system of slavery inside his empire--the Gulag Archipelago, a series of concentration camps of barbarism and death that defy comprehension.

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