As the countdown to the game winds down, South Africa is gripped by World Cup fever.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Some of that is being forced by the United States and the corn to ethanol conversion program that has pushed up the price of corn a great deal, pushed down the world supply of corn for eating, and pushed up world prices.

美国在一定程度上推动了这件事,玉米向乙醇转化项目,大大抬高了玉米价格,削减了可供食用玉米的供应量,世界玉米的价格就提高了

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But basically the audience see that the whole world is going, tumbling down around her

但是，基本上，观众会认为她周围的整个世界都在坍塌，

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"It focuses them and makes them buckle down and do the right things in life." At 25, Thompson fought his way to become World Lightweight Boxing Champion.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

So, the whole world-- everyone's consumption around the world would go down.

所以，整个世界-,每个人的消费能力都下降了。

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Four years later, Beijing surprised the world by successfully shot down a satellite.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

He suggests that there were, indeed, Greek tribes from the north who spoke Dorian dialects, who came down during this period attempting to come into the richer and better settled world of the Mycenaeans.

他认为,事实上,的确有一些,来自北方的说多里安方言的希腊部落,他们在这个时期南下试图进入,更富裕更舒适的迈锡尼人的居住地

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Hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world remain stranded for a third day as European flights were slashed Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Unless you take the things that you don't like about this world and you flip them upside down and you can start that today.

除非你把在这世上讨厌的事物,翻转过来，你们可以从今天开始。

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Mr.Obama,due to chaira special U.N.Security Council session Wednesday on nuclear disarmament, said nuclear actions by Iran and North Korea threaten to take the world down a "dangerous slope" toward uncontrolled proliferation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

That has moved around a lot, but it got almost up to 60% in the post World War II period and now it's down to less than a third.

计算所得的百分率变动很大,二战后,它一度达到将近60%,现在又降到不到三分之一

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In an extraordinary move that sent Toyota stock prices plummeting, the world's largest automaker has suspended sales of eight of its most popular models and shut down five North American plants.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

this is the period in which the Homeric epics are finally written down now that there is writing and that gives them,I think, even greater impact on the Greek world in the future.

这个时期是就是荷马史诗最终写就的时期,所以那时有了文字,而这对他们,对希腊世界的未来,我认为产生了更大的影响

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There is an expansion of the Greek world already by the tenth century, and these folks are now settled down, so that some of these cities are in fact among the most important cities sending out colonies of their own.

希腊世界不停地扩展,一直到10世纪,那些逃亡者才安定下来,因此,这当中的,一些重要城市都拥有自己隶属的殖民地

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We begin to know more about three or four hundred years down the road, when there appear buildings and settlements in the world later inhabited by the Greeks, as we know, to which we give the name Mycenaean.

约三四百年之后当这块希腊人聚居的土地,出现了建筑和住宅群,我们才开始对它有了更多的了解,并将其命名为今天人人皆知的"迈锡尼文明"

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People remembered that during World War II the U.S. Government shut down the housing market.

大家应该还记得,二战期间,美国政府关闭了房地产市场

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It turns out that it didn't turn into World War III and -maybe they did shut down the housing or they must have curtailed it, but it created that boom.

结果没有爆发第三次世界大战,也许政府真的关闭了房产市场,至少他们限制了房地产,而这促进了房地产繁荣

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