“亲爱的”我说，“我认为世界是平坦的。”

"Honey," I confided, "I think the world is flat."

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托马斯·弗里德曼在他那本关于全球化的令人兴奋和可读的书中说：“世界是平坦的，或者至少变得非常的平坦”。

Thomas L. Friedman says in his exciting and readable book about globalization that "the world is flat or at least becoming flatter very quickly".

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我有一种想法，就是对我们来说，世界是一个我们所站立的平坦的东西，而对鸟来说是一个它们所依靠的峭壁。

I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to.

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