Today, most of the elite players from all 32 countries at the World Cup play each other every week in European pro leagues — for which the tournament is simply a punctuation mark between seasons.

现如今，汇聚世界杯来自32个国家的顶尖高手，大多数人每周都要在欧洲职业联赛上你来我往，擦枪走火一番——如此一来，世界杯简直就可称得上是两赛季间的一个标点符号。

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Younger members of the elite hold parties into the early hours, singing pro-Assad slogans and gulping down drinks in nightclubs.

年轻的精英阶层在夜店聚会到凌晨，觥筹交错，高呼支持阿萨德的口号。

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Seoul native, Choi also spent the last 10 years as an elite badminton player with various regional pro teams but will not be returning to a team for 2011.

作为土生土长的首尔人，一个顶级羽球选手，崔MM过去10年曾代表多个地区征战，但2011年崔MM将不再pk了。

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Pioneer Elite PRO-1540HDPopular Mechanics has awarded Pioneer the Breakthrough Picture Quality honors for their 60-inch Elite plasma PRO-1540HD.

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But the elite American pro bike racer Christian Vande Velde is an Outdoor Sports Survivalist.

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In Britain, Eurosceptics hope to win a vote to leave the EU whereas in Germany the pro-EU elite wants a referendum to change the constitution to give more powers to Brussels.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne