[color=#000000]God and the old continent

[font=Tahoma][color=#000000]上帝与旧大陆

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The youthful dynamism of America, and now of China and India, seems to be leaving the decrepit old continent in the shade.

美国的青春活力，如今则是中国和印度的活力，似乎正使得衰落的旧大陆大为逊色。

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The old continent has nearly as much technically recoverable shale gas (natural gas trapped in shale formations) as America.

欧洲大陆通过技术再生的页岩气(页岩形成中获取的天然气)几乎和美国一样多。

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Milton had written in Areopagitica that he had actually met Galileo on his journey, when Milton was a young man and Galileo was a very old man, through the continent.

弥尔顿在中已经写到,他实际上在旅途中曾经遇到过伽利略，那还是当他是一个年轻人，而伽利略已然老去的，一次环陆旅行中。

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The data feeds hope that the Old Continent could possibly avoid a deep recession.

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Still, after so many downgrades across the Old Continent, markets appear relatively inoculated from their negative effects.

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The number complemented negative manufacturing data from Europe and Asia that led to negative sentiment across the Old Continent.

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