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 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。
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。
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。
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。
I remember clearly that night when the whole nation is ecstatic about our big win seven years ago, everyone around me said the world had smiled at us, finally.
我非常清晰地记得七年前那个举国对我们的大胜欣喜若狂的晚上，所有我身边的人都说，世界终于对我们微笑了。
He never had any chance of being especially gifted athletically or socially. But what could he have been if his world had been a little different in the early days?
我儿子从来没有表现出他在体育或者社交方面有特别才能，但是如果他的世界在童年时与别人有所不同，那他现在又会怎么样？
By the late 18th century and Captain Cook's exploration of the southern Pacific (to check that no great southern continent existed), much of the world had been charted.
在18世纪末期，库克船长为了查明不存在巨大的南方大陆而到南太平洋探险以前，世界的大部分地区都已经被绘制在地图上了。
All the world had frowned on her - for seven long years had it frowned upon this lonely woman - and still she bore it all, nor ever once turned away her firm, sad eyes.
整整七年，全世界都曾经对她，对她这孤苦无依的女人，皱起眉头，但她还是挺过来了，从来没有一次掉转开她那坚定而伤心的目光。
Leaders of the new International Commission on nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament say the world had been "sleepwalking" on the issue of nuclear weapons for a decade.
新成立的“核不扩散与裁军国际委员会”的领导人表示，十年来，世界一直在核武器问题上梦游。
The world had to agree a long-term target, a cut of at least 50% by 2050, he said. "But more importantly, the leaders of industrialised countries should agree on a mid-term target."
他说世界各国已经同意在2050年至少减少50%排放这一远期目标，但是更重要的是，发达国家的首脑应该就中期目标达成一致。
Even the six-year-old kernel bug that was recently fixed, for instance — an extremely rare instance in the Linux world — had never been exploited.
最近，一个长达6年之久的内核错误被修复，这样的例子在Linux世界中，可算是极为罕见的事例。
101-year-old American Ernie Trent, the oldest pilot in the world, had his flying license renewed recently.
现年101岁高龄的美国人厄尔尼·特伦特是世界上最老的飞行员，不久前还通过了飞行执照年审。
Amazon, among the biggest online retailers in the world, had succeeded where few thought it ever could - it had made its own product its own biggest hit.
作为世界上最大的网上零售商之一的亚马逊，取得了让大多数人难以置信的成功——它让自己的产品独占销售榜的鳌头。
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