Okumu, who is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he is “working on the premise that this is a global problem — a global problem in a flat world.”
在伦敦大学卫生保健和热带医学院攻读博士学位的Okumu说，他是“他在这样一个前提下工作，即这是一个全球性的问题――一个世界范围内的全球性问题。”
The "geography is dead" concept has been presented convincingly by Thomas Friedman in his bestseller, the World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first Century 1.
ThomasFriedman在他的畅销作品世界是平面的：21世纪简史1中有说服力地提出“地理界限消失了”的概念。
I seemed to have driven into a country Mired in depression both financial and emotional: Beckett's world, not Joyce's. Even the D.J. 's Pope jokes fell flat.
我似乎驶入了一个不论是在物质还是精神上都陷入窘境的国家：这是贝克特的世界，而不是乔伊斯的。
When I moved into my first apartment in college, I remember telling my flat-mate Tanya I am the luckiest person in the world and she looked at me like I was a weirdo.
记得刚搬进大学公寓的时候，我就对我对床的塔尼亚说，我是世界上最幸运的人，当时她看我的眼神就好像在看一个怪人。
In the real world, very few things have a flat tone.
现实世界中，没有什么事物总是平坦色调。
The answer is "yes"– even if both businesses were expected to have flat unit volume – as long as you anticipated, as we did in 1972, a world of continuous inflation.
答案是“对”。即便两个业务都预期有停滞的业务量，只要你预计到了一个持续通胀的世界，正如我们在1972年预计的那样，这个答案就是“对”。
"Yes, you pay the rent," said Carrie. "you talk as if there was nothing else in the world but a flat to sit around in."
“是呀，你付了房租，”嘉莉说，“照你这么说来，好像这个世界上除了有一套公寓可以在里面闲坐之外，再没有其它任何东西了。”
One prime reason is simply that we live in an increasingly "flat earth" world where business is a 24 hour a day proposition.
最首要的原因是我们所处的地球变得信息扁平化了，商务往来24小时不间断。
Through this communion, Mila was filled in a way that then made the material world appear flat, boring and unimportant.
通过这样的通讯，Mila在某种程度上被充实，随后物质世界显得单调、厌倦和不重要。
Table: Article of furniture used in the Western world since at least the 7th century BC, consisting of a flat slab of stone, metal, wood, or glass supported by trestles, legs, or a pillar.
桌：最晚在公元前7世纪为西方使用的一种基本家具，由石板、金属板、木板或玻璃板制成，用支架、腿或一根柱子支撑。
Our Sunday drives, interrupted now and again by a flat tire or by getting stuck in the mud, opened the world to us.
世界在我们的周日乘车旅行中向我们敞开，虽然我们偶尔也会遇到瘪胎或在烂泥中抛锚。
Our Sunday drives, interrupted now and again by a flat tire or by getting stuck in the mud, opened the world to us.
世界在我们的周日乘车旅行中向我们敞开，虽然我们偶尔也会遇到瘪胎或在烂泥中抛锚。
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