For a while, U.S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower.

有一段时间，美国的力量曾遭到苏联的制衡，但自从冷战结束之后，美国已经成为单极世界的唯一超级大国。

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As Wolfgang Proissl argues in a forthcoming paper for Bruegel, a think-tank, the euro-zone crisis has exposed the cold reality that Germany is the power in Europe that counts the most.

在为布鲁格尔智库而写的一篇即将发表的文章中，沃尔夫冈·普罗斯认为欧元区的危机暴露了一项冷酷的现实，即德国是欧洲最重要最强大的力量。

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Canada's largest city has been pioneering the idea that instead of using electricity to power air conditioning, a useful supply of cold can be directly extracted from the environment.

加拿大最大的城市已经率先使用这一想法来取代利用电力来进行空气调节，在这里可利用的冷却资源供给可以直接从环境中获得。

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We mostly bought things we could use to make somewhat tasty meals without power: Cold cuts, cheese, hamburger buns (there was one lonely package on the shelves when I got to it), pickles.

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Before Saakashvili came to power, there were winters when Georgians stayed in the cold and dark due to lack of power and corruption among public servants but it rarely gets mentioned today.

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The unusually cold winter also made the power glut less severe.

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