考古证据开始指向一个横跨（英吉利）海峡的青铜时代聚落，它是被大海连接的，而不是被大海分开。

Archaeological evidence was beginning to suggest a Bronze-Age community straddling the Channel, brought together by the sea, rather than separated by it.

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听说在我开始在这个项目学习的时候，每个导师只有1到2个学生，而下一年，一个班有17人。

I've been told that when I initially started the project, there were one or two students a guru, and the next year the incoming class has 17 students.

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一个供应商想一开始就加入并随着生意的扩大而发展。

A supplier wants to get in on the ground floor and grow with the business.

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Because they would have started with the hypothesis, not that there existed a month, but that June was particularly likely.

因为他们是有了假设然后再开始做实验的，而不是说有一个这样特殊的月份，而是六月是一个特殊的月份。

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And on Friday, this was how we started with every session, with every world leader, whether in business, whether in non-for-profit, whether in politics.

而在星期五，每一次聚会都是这样开始的，对每一个世界级领袖，无论是商界的，非盈利机构的，还是政界的。

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And not only are the Greeks as a whole cut off from the rest of the world, but Greece itself, which used to be an area of easy exchange, where people could go from one place to the other and did, localism now comes into the picture.

而且不仅是希腊人作为一个群体被排除在,世界之外,希腊内部也出现了问题,它曾经也是一个贸易中心,人们从其他地方赶来又走向另一个地方,而此时,地方主义开始兴起

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