While the Greek world had expanded along the Mediterranean seas lanes, the Roman world was assembled by territorial conquest.
当希腊世界沿着地中海航线扩张时,罗马世界是通过征服领土而建立起来的。
A century later the picture was completely different: by then, the world had an electric industry, and a quarter of its generating capacity was water powered.
一个世纪后,情况完全不同了:这时,世界上已经有了电力工业,其四分之一的发电量是水力驱动的。
The world had witnessed a titanic struggle between two visions of the future.
世界见证了两种对未来的设想间的激烈较量。
The publishing world had certainly never seen an event quite like this.
出版界当然从未见过类似这样的事情。
The International Energy Association reported last year that nearly one and a half billion people in the world had no electricity to use, and most of them live in sub---Saharan Africa and in India and other countries in Asia.
国际能源协会去年报告说,世界上有近15亿人没有电可用,其中大多数人生活在撒哈拉以南非洲、印度和亚洲其他国家。
The dietary world had changed.
膳食世界发生变化了。
世界变了个样。
The world had passed away from him, as his strength ebbed.
这个世界正在从他这里消失,因为他的精力渐趋耗尽。
Didn’t I realise how little that world had to do with them now?
我没有认识到那个世界与他们没有多少关系吗?
Ever since the arrival of les Américains, his world had changed.
自从美国人来了以后,他的世界开始变化。
The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood.
对于她这种古怪的老姑娘,外面的世界早已经有了固定的成见。
In all these cases, it wasn't so much that the bankers had changed; the world had.
在所有这些情况下,并不是银行家们有所改变;而是世界变化了。
At first this was a novelty but soon people forgot the world had once been all violet.
一开始人们还觉得很新奇,但很快大家就淡忘了世界曾变成紫色这个事实。
By September 13, 1.1 million people from around the world had visited her blog, and many left messages.
截至9月13日,全球共110万人浏览了她的博客,更有多人在上面留言。
In 1970 the total fertility rate was 4.45 and the typical family in the world had four or five children.
1970年总生育率为4.45,世界上一般家庭都会有四到五个孩子。
In a strange way, my failures in the academic world had helped me achieve that goal on a bigger stage.
我在学术生涯中的失败,用一种古怪的方式,帮我在一个更大的舞台上,达到了这个目标。
A year ago the Guardian, a British newspaper, said it was the most successful society the world had ever known.
一年前,英国《卫报》称之为世界已知的最成功的社会。
Most of the people in the world had no idea that that had occurred and it makes absolutely no difference to them.
世界上的大多数人,并不知道已经发生的这件事情,这对他们毫无意义。
THE marvellous edifice of modern finance took years to build. The world had a weekend to save it from collapsing.
人们花了好些年才建起了现代金融的炫丽大厦,却要在一个周末之内防止这座大厦轰然倒塌。
Colonel Qaddafi's rapid advance to Benghazi meant that the outside world had to intervene within days or not at all.
卡扎菲上校急速开进班加西,意味着外界要么在几天之内就干预,要么就不干预。
If they world had no substance, then whether a proposition had sense would depend on whether another proposition was true.
假如世界没有实体,那么一个命题是否有意义就依赖于另一个命题是否为真。
The world had changed. All the houses, fences, and barren trees had new shapes. Everything was round and white and unfamiliar.
世界变了个样。所有的房屋、栅栏还有光秃秃的树木都换了新颜。一切事物都变成圆乎乎的,银装素裹,看起来很陌生。
And, after he had worn it a few times, he began to complain that the whole world had become to him nothing but black and white squares.
他穿了几次之后,就开始抱怨整个世界在他眼里都变成了黑白相间的方块。
And, in fact, a computer program has come up with a proof that, as far as was known, nobody in the world had ever come up with before.
而实际上,电脑程序的证明方式,据目前所知,是前人们从未曾提出过的。
Brown argued that "we could be the first generation in history that would ensure that every child in the world had the chance of basic schooling."
布朗说:“我们可以成为有史以来能确保全世界儿童人人都有机会接受基础教育的第一代人。”
It was exactly one year to the day after the world had turned violet that people awoke to find the world had turned yellow. All except the Blue Jay.
在世界变成紫色刚好一年后,人们一觉醒来发现世界又变成了黄色,除了那只冠蓝鸦。
Yet in Davos, the developed world had lost the optimism of that heady time. The financial crash has left it pessimistic, groping for a way forward.
但是在达沃斯,发达国家没有了往昔全盛时代的乐观情绪,金融风暴使得发达国家垂头丧气,不知道前边路在何方。
While America's corporate world had suffered several booms and recessions in the later 20th century, the housing market had followed a steady path of growth.
当美国的企业界在20世纪后半段遭遇数次兴衰之时,住宅市场却一直稳步攀升。
While America's corporate world had suffered several booms and recessions in the later 20th century, the housing market had followed a steady path of growth.
当美国的企业界在20世纪后半段遭遇数次兴衰之时,住宅市场却一直稳步攀升。
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