That leaves American retailers pretty much alone the world over in relying on magstripe technology to charge purchases—and leaves consumers vulnerable.

这使得美国零售商依赖于磁条技术来收取购买费用，这几乎是全球范围内少有的——这也使得消费者很容易受到伤害。

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Embarrassingly for the state, only one of its universities (the small, private Rice University in Houston) makes it into the list of the top 20 universities in America, let alone the world.

而令人感到尴尬的是，德州只有一所院校(位于休斯顿的，小型的私人院校——赖斯大学，Rice University)位于美国高校榜的前20名，更不用说在世界上的排名。

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What shall I do alone in the world?

我一个人在这世界上该怎么办呢？

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Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

And so that for me to see art that represents that confliction or confusion can be actually the kind of grace of identification that allows me to feel that I'm not alone in the world perhaps.

所以，在我看来，如果看到艺术,能够呈现矛盾与疑惑，实际上他们,带给了我一种认同的美丽，让我感觉,自己在这个世界上并不孤单。

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The report says 40% of the world's smokers are believed to live in China and India alone.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

You know, it is commonplace to say that since the end of the Cold War, America stands alone as the world's only super power.

CNN: Bill Clinton Speaks To A Meeting Of Newspaper Editors

More going it alone in the world, instead of building the shared responsibilities and shared opportunities necessary to advance our security and restore our influence.

NPR: Transcript: Bill Clinton's Prime-Time Speech

In 2006 alone, the world produced 161 exabytes of digital data, the equivalent of three million times the information contained in all the books ever written.

FORBES: The Data Smog That Envelops Us All