Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a "Bermuda triangle" of debt, population decline and lower growth.

现在，即使是该计划最大的支持者也在谈论面临债务、人口减少和低增长的“百慕大三角”大陆的话题。

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If an ocean floor tectonic plate meets the edge of a continent and they push against each other, the heavier one sinks down and goes under the other one.

如果一个海底构造板块与大陆边缘接触并相互挤压，较重的板块下沉到另一个的下面。

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Whereas purposeful men could make their way across a narrow bridge, the slow diffusion of plant and animals would require an avenue as a continent and available for ages at a stretch.

有目的的人可以通过一座狭窄的桥，而植物和动物的缓慢扩散则需要一条像大陆一样的道路，而且需要很长时间才能使用。

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In time,they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

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That is to say, discover an entirely new continent, a new world, so to speak, the new world of Machiavelli.

也就是说发现了全新的大陆，全新的世界，属于马奇亚维利的全新世界。

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Milton had written in Areopagitica that he had actually met Galileo on his journey, when Milton was a young man and Galileo was a very old man, through the continent.

弥尔顿在中已经写到,他实际上在旅途中曾经遇到过伽利略，那还是当他是一个年轻人，而伽利略已然老去的，一次环陆旅行中。

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Just imagine what Americans experienced when they fanned out from 13 colonies to settle a continent.

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It calls to mind mosquitoes on a continent tragically ravaged by those malaria-bearing insects.

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Denounced by a drunk teenager, the Golovins are resettled a continent away in Augean conditions.

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