I was afraid that the small, light, safe world of notes and cassettes was too artificial and too vulnerable to withstand actual closeness.

我担心那小小的、轻轻的便条和磁带的安全的世界太过造作，太过脆弱，以致于没法经得起近在咫尺的考验。

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He got the idea after being tipped off by a banker who told him that the world was littered with valuable oil fields that were ignored by big companies because they were too small.

当一个银行家告诉他，这个世界被宝贵的石油覆盖，它们太小而被大公司忽略了，他做出了上面这个决定。

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The IMF's resource base was too small to make much of a difference on the world stage, it's resources were only around $100-200bn and the infusion of new funds that is part of the agreement will help.

IMF仅有1000——2000亿美元的资本，资本基础过于薄弱，在世界舞台上发挥的作用非常有限，而作为协议一部分注入的新资金将有所裨益。

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Occasionally the threat lay in that buzzword of today, globalisation, and its concomitant demand for greater scale: Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz because, even as number three in the world's largest car market, it was too small to prosper alone.

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