The skylines of India's major cities are changing fast as iconic new office buildings and luxury apartment blocks serve the burgeoning business elite.

伴随着一幢幢为新兴的商务精英们服务的全新形象写字楼和奢华公寓楼的建成，印度主要城市的轮廓线正在迅速改变。

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Eastern Germany may never overcome some of its disadvantages, such as its relative lack of big cities and the exodus of its elite.

东德可能永远都不能客服自身的一些弱势，如相对缺少大城市以及精英流失的问题。

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Unrest has been slowly growing in Syria's cities—though the last two are not yet up in arms—but order has been maintained thanks to the continued loyalty of much of the elite and business communities.

动荡局势一直在叙利亚各城市缓慢升级——尽管在上述两个城市仍然没有升级到武装抗争的程度——然而秩序得以维持应该归功于大部分精英和商界团体的忠心耿耿。

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But if you were going to be elite-- he wanted to establish cities throughout his empire that would be actually Greek cities, and he wanted to have the elite people all be able, at least, to speak Greek.

但是如果要成为精英阶层-,他要求帝国里的所有城市,都建为希腊式城市，要求所有精英阶层至少能够，说希腊语。

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Among the elite cities, the tech hubs of San Francisco , Seattle and Boston have done the best, posting GDP growth around 2.5%.

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Until then modernists needed to finagle access to elite showrooms in big cities to see or purchase these pieces.

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Is economic growth so unfashionable amongst the policy elite that not one of over 300 cities made such a case?

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