In the flat world of maps, sharp lines show where one country ends and another begins.

在地图上的扁平世界里，凌厉的线条展示了一个国家的起始和另一个国家的终止。

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In from the perimeter of the country is mostly relatively flat farmland, traversed by rivers such as the river Shannon and several large lakes.

国家的边界大多是相对平坦的农地及河流，如香农河(River Shannon)和一些大的湖就横越这些边界。

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I seemed to have driven into a country Mired in depression both financial and emotional: Beckett's world, not Joyce's. Even the D.J. 's Pope jokes fell flat.

我似乎驶入了一个不论是在物质还是精神上都陷入窘境的国家：这是贝克特的世界，而不是乔伊斯的。

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In contrast rival brewer Carlsberg, whose main business lies in Russia, said sales were flat in the country.

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At the 2003 capitalist ball Mart Laar, a former prime minister of Estonia, was given a special award to celebrate the fact that, in 1994, his country had become the first in Europe to introduce a flat tax, of 26%.

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Most Russians appeared not to resent the privileges that were eventually restored to Galina: her flat in Moscow, the dacha in the country, her pension.

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