The neat streets of Oslo are not a natural setting for crime fiction. Nor, with its cows and country smells, is the flat farming land of Sweden's southern tip.

奥斯陆整洁的街道并非犯罪小说里常有的环境，而且那些奶牛和乡村味道会告诉你，这里只是瑞典最南端的平坦农田。

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Nor is it conceivable in this modern world that a whole country could wall itself off from modernity, even if the majority wanted to do so.

在现今的世界上，即使在国内受到了多数人的支持，要把一个国家完全与现代社会隔绝开来也是绝无可能的。

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It seems that neither television, nor the autobahn, nor even the Kaiser, has created a single country in Germany.

看起来，电视，高速公路甚至是凯撒大帝都没能在德国内创造一个统一的国家。

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Nor does much of his music. It is a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.

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Even if this was legally possible, which it isn't under current euro-zone rules, it was politically impossible: there is no appetite in some euro-zone countries, notably Germany, to create a transfer union, nor to bail out a country whose banking system is widely suspected to be a haven for money-laundering.

WSJ: Euro Zone Moving Into Twilight Zone

Nor would a democratic country tolerate a government that operated through an elaborate system of secret meetings characterised by blatant arm-twisting and browbeating by the most powerful, like the World Trade Organisation.

ECONOMIST: The world trade system

Nor is it written in a country's stars.

ECONOMIST: Free exchange