Lots of companies are setting up shop in Second Life, but some might prefer to have their own worlds, not just islands in someone else's world, just as they have their own websites.

大量的公司在第二人生中开设了自己的商店，但像拥有自己的网站一样，一些公司可能会更希望拥有自己的虚拟世界，而不仅仅是别人的世界中的一个小岛。

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Yet current law lays down that only islands can support economic areas. Mere rocks, places which "cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own", have no such privilege.

然而，现行的法律明文规定只有岛屿才能支撑得起经济区，仅仅是不能维持人类居住和经济生活的礁岩岛没有这项特权。

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The islands may be strewn with pines and olives but owners will have to pay extra to lease their own beaches, as they remain government property.

小岛上也许布满了松树和橄榄树，可岛主们还得额外花钱来租借他们自己的海滩，因为那仍然属于国家财产。

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The islands have their own governments, their own tax-raising powers and are not members of the European Union.

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California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Tennessee, Wisconsin and the U.S. Virgin Islands all have their own WARN acts too.

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"Most men would kill to have their own island, " claims Wally Gudgell of Gudgell Properties, which specializes in Washington's San Juan Islands.

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