How many of us spent hours weighing up the options of a two-week break in far-flung destinations in corners of Europe we'd never heard of, let alone visited?

我们当中有很多的人，为了对比前往欧洲某个闻所未闻的角落度过两个星期的假期的不同选择，而花费了大量时间。

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Most consumers have never heard of beefalo, let alone tasted it, and only a few Seattle grocery stores carry it.

绝大多数消费者根本就没有听说过皮弗娄牛，更不说品尝它们的肉了，目前只有美国西雅图的几家食品店出售这种牛肉。

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Could it be true? I had been living in Laos for years, yet never heard of Lao tea, let alone a superior one.

老挝，我已经在了好多年了，还从来没听说过老挝有茶，而且还好！

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Insult has been added to injury to the extent that the military's top commanders feel their views and concerns have not been heard, let alone given proper weight, in the administration's deliberations.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Only a small fraction of these 1.5 billion Muslims will have heard of, let alone subscribe to, the ideas of theorists such as Qutb.

ECONOMIST: In the name of Islam

To begin with, it is a concept that had not been heard of, let alone practiced in Muslim history, until invented by the venerated Islamist ideologue, Abul Ala Mawdudi , more than half a century ago.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Don��t ask the Treasury