The forest of China has already become the first place in the world, about 2 hundred million hectares.

中国的森林面积已经成为世界第一，约2亿公顷。

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In fact, China has no intention of challenging the US 'first place in the world.

其实，中国并不挑战美国世界第一的位置。

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The first place in the world – at least in most atlases – lies at the end of a road to nowhere.

这里是世界开始的地方——至少在大部分地图册上是这样的——它坐落于一条大路的尽头，在更远的地方只有黑暗的群山和可怕的海上漩涡。

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In nineteen seventy-eight, the islands were the first place named to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

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For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.

对他而言，当现代性取代了上帝的地位,它所起的作用就是解释诗人所有的神明般的力量，这是一种在想象中重塑世界的力量，这种想象最初创造出了上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You can't focus completely on pleasing them because you'll never win and then you're excluding a whole other world of people who weren't aware of the comic in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

In the first place, because we are a highly financialised world economy, in which the destabilising role of finance - when it goes wrong - is in proportion to its highly stabilising and dynamic role when it works right.

BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

Trott, who made a double century in the first Test against Bangladesh last month, missed out on a place in the World Twenty20 squad and has also been omitted from England's squad for the forthcoming one-day internationals against Scotland and Australia.

BBC: Bears beat Notts at Edgbaston despite Hussey heroics

The divide over agriculture threatens to undermine Doha because the developing countries, which object most strongly to the trade-distorting subsidies provided to farmers in the industrial world, were such reluctant participants in the first place.

ECONOMIST: Will there ever be a breakthrough?