The earthquake centres had been plotted on a world map.

地震震中均被标示在一张世界地图上。

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The competition has been thrown wide open by the absence of the world champion.

世界冠军的缺席使这场比赛变得胜负难定。

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We have been looking at the shadowy world of the paranormal.

我们一直在关注玄奇事物这一神秘世界。

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Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a 2-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

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This is the world, particularly the legal world, catching up with where religious and cultural concepts have been for a very long time.

这就是这个世界，尤其是法律世界，向宗教和文化概念靠拢的地方,而后两者已存在很长时间了。

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But that wouldn't have been sort of a normal, everyday way to talk about a stranger in the ancient world.

但即便在古代，对陌生人这么称呼也不并不常见。

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Hong Kong has been the world's biggest IPO market for the past two years.

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The real strength of Star Wars has always been the world Lucas created in those first movies.

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Samsung had been the world's leading television manufacturer for the last six years, selling 57 million sets in the last year.

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