It connects the City of London to the rest of the world. It is the fortress that guards the lucrative transatlantic business of British Airways (BA).

它连接了伦敦和整个世界，同时也是英航的要塞，维护了英航利润丰厚的跨大西洋航线。

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Ba: it was, wasn 't it, Milton?

芭：太好了，不是吗？米尔顿。

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Ba jin once said: "friendship is a beacon in the life, leave it, they don't have a glorious life, leave it, life will not blossom."

巴金曾经说过：䃰“友情是生命中的一盏明灯，离开它，生命就没了光彩，离开它，生命就不会开花结果。”

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Ba, making his first West Ham start following his move from Bundesliga side Hoffenheim, got the goal when he latched on to Noble's ball into the danger area and, under pressure from Paul Scharner, Ba chested the ball down and turned it in from close-range.

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Boeing ( BA) looks cheap, too, but it carries both defense-cutback risk and risk from its snake-bitten 787 jetliner program.

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The suggestion is that if BA can't compete over the short-haul routes, it should leave them entirely to the no-frills carriers, which would then absorb the extra "slots" - takeoff and landing times - for their own services.

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