A few years ago, the limit of her world had been the park two blocks down the street, and later the stone bench across the street from their apartment; now it was their fifth-floor balcony.

几年前，她的世界已经局限于两排屋子那一边的公园，后来缩小到公寓楼对面街上的石凳，现在只是在他们家五楼的阳台上了。

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia - in this urban oasis widely considered one of the most livable places in the world, the Downtown Eastside is about 15 square blocks of something else.

温哥华，不列颠哥伦比亚省——这个城市绿洲被广泛认为是世界上最适宜居住的地方之一，位于市中心东区的15街区。

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Today's ministers, such as William Hague, the Conservative foreign secretary, dislike talk of a world divided into formal blocks.

而如今，以保守党外交大臣威廉•黑格为代表的一些大臣，不喜欢刻板地把世界分成几大块的论调。

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In the closing event, Shelly-Ann Fraser jumped out of the starting blocks and never trailed as she crossed the finish line in a world-leading time of 10.73 seconds.

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Once they can manipulate atoms--which combine to form molecules, the building blocks of our natural world--scientists can create new building blocks that produce new materials with the exact properties they desire: smaller, stronger, tougher, lighter and more resilient than what has come before.

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Within the clubby world of toy manufacturers, which stretches from the office blocks of east Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong to the factories over the border, Smart Union was seen as one of the winners, a trusted manufacturer with none of the quality problems that came to terrify the buyers of Chinese products.

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