至少在西方世界，英语是流行文化中的主要语言。

In the western world, at least, English is a dominating language in popular culture.

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通过摆弄这些二进制数，他不禁发出疑问：二进制时间——或者说，十进制时间——为什么从未在西方世界流行开来。

All this playing around with binary numbers has made him wonder why binary time—or, for that matter, decimal time—never caught on in the Western world.

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美国流行音乐已传播到世界各地。

American pop music has been exported around the world.

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Schistomiosis, which is a worm that lives in river waters, causes terrible diseases that are still prevalent in many parts of the world.

血吸虫,是一种生存在河水中的蠕虫,可以引起严重疾病,并仍在世界上众多地区广泛流行

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The epidemic simply migrates from one part of the world to another."

如果流行就是简单地,从世界上的一个地方到另一个地方

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One thing that's been a trend around the world is that the I mentioned that the U.S. Federal Reserve System was different from other central banks in that it was designed to have independence.

一个在世界范围内,流行的事实是,我提到过美国联邦储备系统,与其他中央银行不同,因为它有独立自主性。

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