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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One passage in The World is Flat points this out to me in very stark terms.

在扁平的世界这本书一个章节中，作者毫不掩饰地向我们指出了这一点。

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Today, XML is the fundamental technology driving the internationalization of applications in the increasingly flat world.

现在，在这个日益趋平的世界中，XML 成了推动应用程序国际化的基本技术。

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We just wonder if there is room in the flat panel world for both plasma and LCD.

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Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flat flood plain.

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Given the slowdown in Europe and the emerging world, flat U.S. would accentuate the global weakness, probably sending the U.S. into a downturn.

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