Imagine an auction in a looking-glass world with the auctioneer offering cash to the highest bidder and the participants frantically outbidding each other with a jumble of assorted assets.

假设在一个与现实社会完全颠倒的世界里有一场拍卖会，拍卖人向出价最高者提供现金，带著一堆各类资产的买家疯狂地竞相叫价。

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Demand for flat glass was very high and glassmakers across the world were looking for a method of making it continuously.

平板玻璃的需求量非常大，世界各地的玻璃制造商都在寻找一种连续生产的方法。

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Anyone walking through the Looking Glass would be transported instantly into Wonderland, a world where animals talked in riddles and common sense wasn't so common.

任何透过玻璃看将运入仙境，世界上的动物在谈到谜语和常识即刻走不那么普遍。

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In the looking-glass world of Northern Ireland, some took Mr Adams's statement as helpful to Mr Trimble, because it showed the Ulster Unionists what little room their leader had for manoeuvre.

ECONOMIST: Ulster waits