The offer of minority stakes was accompanied by a slight crack in the Great Wall that China has built around its highly sensitive securities markets.

中国敏感的，长城般严防死守的证券市场伴随着非控股股权的发行，有了一丝小裂缝。

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Surprisingly, the Great Wall has never been studied in detail.

令人惊奇的是，这条长城一直没有被仔细研究。

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Since 1998, he has taken groups of volunteers from his association, the International Friends of the Great Wall, to help remove hundreds of kilogrammes (pounds) of garbage from the structure.

从1998年起，他便为自己的社团——国际长城之友组织了一批志愿者来帮忙清理长城上数百公里(磅)的垃圾。

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To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.

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The preposterous notion that the Great Wall can be seen from the moon has been knocking around since at least 1754.

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