Europe is home to eight of the 10 most expensive cities in the world, and 14 of the top 20.

在全世界生活费用最昂贵的10个城市当中，欧洲占了8个，在前20名中则占了14个。

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It is reported that ten big cities in China are being ranked among the top twenty cities with the highest pollution index in the world.

据报道，全球污染指数最高的二十个城市中包含十个中国的城市。

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The fact that there were three Swiss cities - Zurich, Geneva and Bern - in the top 10 locations emphasised the county's reputation as one of the safest places in the world, it said.

该公司表示，苏黎世、日内瓦、伯尔尼三个瑞士城市均排名前10位，这突显出瑞士作为全球最安全地区之一的声誉。

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The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities and fifteenth place in the top twenty global financial centers.

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Last time New York held the crown as the billionaire capital of the world was in 2009, when the U.S. had five cities in the top 10: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas and Los Angeles.

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Three of the top five cities ranked as the worst in the world for traffic congestion by a 2012 IBM survey were in the BRIC countries.

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