但有一项桂冠，美国是很乐意失去的：2008年中国将成为世界上最大的温室气体排放国(有人声称2007年底中国就已经成为最大排放国了)。

But there is one crown that America will be glad to lose: China will become the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2008 (some claim it had already achieved this by the end of 2007).

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虽然欧元从2002年才开始流通，但自从1991年1月1日发行以来，就已经成为世界上仅次于美元的第二大储备货币。

Since the currency's launch on January 1, 1999 (though it only began to circulate as a currency in 2002), the euro has become the world's second largest reserve currency, after the U.S. dollar.

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虽然现在还只是运营初期，但是“7”就已经在这场世界上最受欢迎的数字的争夺中独占鳌头。

Though it's early in the running, right now, "7" is leading the race to be the World's Favorite Number.

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