These lines,or circles,are parallel -- meaning that they are equally distant from each other at any point around the world.

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Engineers find it congenial because they have a way of thinking constructively about the world that is kind of parallel to finance.

工程师会觉得学金融很得心应手,因为他们的思考方式,和金融学的思考方式很相似

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Egyptian stuff and Greek stuff is, you know, without parallel, really, probably anywhere in the world.

埃及和希腊的东西，世界其他任何一个地方都没有类似的。

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