One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a "still point of the turning world," to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.

这些诉求之一与在动荡中创造一种平和的状态相关，借用 T。 S。 Eliot 的话来说，就是“旋转世界中的静止点”。

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Exactly speaking, it is this spirit tha t makes football one of the most popular sports around the world.

确切地说，正是这种精神使得足球比赛成为了风靡世界的一项运动。

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One, from 1530, shows the world like a heart, others show it like an eye, a t, a circle or a pair of circles.

如果以一种1530年的方法展开，世界看起来像是颗心脏；使用其他方法展开，有的像一只眼睛，有的像个T字，还有的像一个圆圈或是一对圆圈。

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For one thing, Americans usually don't cook their fish whole, as much of the world does.

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It doesn't sound right when other men are out there dying, so they raised taxes during World War One.

在有人战死沙场的时候,发战争财是件龌龊的事情，所以他们在第一次世界大战时这么做了。

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Of course, that doesn't mean that in the real world one of them does exist and the other one doesn't.

当然,这并不意味着,在现实世界里面其中一个存在,而另一个不存在

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If it didn't have the spire, One World Trade Center would be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which stands at 1, 451 feet and currently has the title of tallest building in the U.S., not including its own antennas.

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Japan then showed the world you didn't need natural resources to become one of the richest countries in the world.

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You wouldn't think Britain was one of the Western world's worst economic laggards by looking at the latest sales figures from Tesco , the supermarket giant that gets about half its revenues from the United Kingdom.

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