One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a "still point of the turning world," to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.

这些诉求之一与在动荡中创造一种平和的状态相关，借用 T。 S。 Eliot 的话来说，就是“旋转世界中的静止点”。

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In our always-connected world, boredom may be a hard-to-define state, but it is a fertile one.

在我们万物互联的世界中，无聊也许是一种很难定义的状态，却也是一种丰富的状态。

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Flexible undo capability is critical to helping users return their world to a known, good state.

灵活的撤销能力是重要的，它可以帮助用户返回到他们了解的、良好状态的世界中。

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It was the first day of trading since state-owned Dubai World asked for a six-month delay in repaying its debts.

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Speaking of up-and-coming jazz ensembles,10 bands were selected for a U.S.State Department world tour.

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It is owned by a local state-owned company, Nakheel, a subsidiary of Dubai World, and fed with daily shipments by a Chinese state-owned company, COSCO.

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Now, with the best will in a two-state world, that job would be far harder.

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As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.

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