Previously, my hometown was closed to the outside world.

以前，我的家乡与外界隔绝。

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Santander, finding much of the emerging world outside Latin America closed to it, has shifted its strategy.

桑坦德发现拉美以外地区的新兴世界对其关上了大门之后转移了战略。

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The Chinese have been closed for so long, they're eager to see the outside world.

很长一段时间以来，中国人一直闭目塞听，现在他们迫不及待地要看看外面的世界。

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Indeed, they would probably have started thinking about differentiation anyway, even had China remained closed to the outside world, says Usha Haley, an expert on Asian business from the University of Tennessee.

ECONOMIST: Asian companies and the China challenge

The new agreement is a major concession by the ultra-Orthodox rabbis, who have been loth to open up their closed and sheltered community to the spiritual dangers and temporal temptations of the outside world.

ECONOMIST: Israel

He told the House of Commons that a delay in the local polls would damage the tourist industry, giving an impression to the outside world that Britain was "closed for business".

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