R&D spending relative to sales for the leading technology companies in America, Europe and Japan was either flat or falling between 2002 and 2006, but increased in the three “new” Asian countries.

从2002年到2006年，在欧洲和日本处于领先的一些技术公司，研发经费与销售额的比例要么持平要么下降，而在这三个新兴亚洲国家却是见长。

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The result is as astonishing as it is exciting, because what we get are flat, overlapping 2-D-spaces around us, utmost difficult to detect, since they have only two spatial dimensions.

结果是让人吃惊的，因为在我们周围得到的是平面的、交叠的二维空间，几乎难以观察，因为它们只有两个空间维度。

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What would happen if the coincidence of Einstein's time progress axis with one spatial dimension of these flat 2-D-spaces around us would get slowly lost?

如果爱因斯坦的时间轴与我们周围的平面二维空间的一个空间维度的恰好慢慢消失的话，会产生什么现象呢？

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What we've written is a whole step, so we've got to indicate that this is just a half step away in that fashion, D to E-flat.

而这里写的是一个全音级,所以我们要在这里标出,从D到降E只有半音级

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Fashion always works between 2-D and 3-D, creating flat shapes, which are then put together, constructed into 3-D.

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Speaking after the race, Mr Balls said that his "biggest concern today was I'd be flat-lining before I got all the way round".

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They'd balance a spoon-shaped piece of magnetic rock on any flat surface, and since it was magnetic, the handle would swivel to align itself with the Earth's magnetic poles.

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