THERE is not much to see in the city of Bakersfield, north of Los Angeles, but recent events have put it on the global electricity-industry map.

美国洛杉矶北部城市贝克尔斯菲尔德没有多少值得观光的地方，但最近的一些事件让该城市登上了全球电力产业的地图。

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The delegation had a map showing the majority of previous games have been held in Europe and North America.

巴西代表团制作了一份显示之前奥运会主办地点的图表，其中大多数是欧洲和北美国家。

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The French Quarter anchors a great swath of the east bank of the Mississippi River—the part that actually looks like it's north of the river on the map.

法国市街坐落于密西西比河东岸的狭长地带上，从地图上看，这个区域实际就像在河的北面。

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"We're now seeing Taliban control across the country. And one of the most significant things that we're seeing in this latest map is the increased level of Taliban presence in the north of the country.

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Robert Nash, Glaxo's director of U.S. environment health and safety, previously worked in an enclosed office, decorated with photos and a map of the North Carolina coastline.

WSJ: Warming Up to the Officeless Office

But the map showed the usual archipelago of islets in the north and south of the West Bank, with no territorial contiguity between them, and none of them anywhere near Jerusalem.

ECONOMIST: Palestinians and Israel

Despite that, most powerful Indian earthquakes tend to occur towards the north of the subcontinent (see map).

ECONOMIST: Earthquakes in India