The barriers to unity presented by European geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire, eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas.

由于欧洲独特的地理条件,和当时有限的科技水平,使未来的征伐者很难建立一个广袤的帝国,清除异己和使他的意志,传播到广袤领地的每一个角落

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Part of the reason why I'm endorsing this market stability regulator is that there's no way we can set up a system that is both very effective in allocating resources and that is also very stable.

我赞成市场稳定性监控者,的部分原因是,没有方法建立一个,既能完全有效配置资源有非常稳定,的系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It seems as if no other websites existed for teenagers except the website created by Harris and Klebold, the two shooters in that case.

就好像就没有别的适合年轻人的网站了,他们眼里只有Harris和Klebold所建立的网站，也就是本案里的两个枪击者。

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Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.

储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子

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