One senior executive at a Chinese company operating in India says the potential for misunderstanding between the powers is caused by a fuzzy colonial-era border, drawn arbitrarily across a map.

印度某中资公司的一位高管表示，两个大国之所以可能产生误会，是由殖民时代在地图上草率画就的一条模糊的边境线所致。

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Moonlight glints off coastal waters along the France-Italy border (map) in a picture snapped by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station in late April.

4月末，国际空间站上一名宇航员拍摄到沿法-意边境月光映照下的沿海水域。

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On the other side, there's a six-hundred-metre descent, one hour, and we arrive at the border-patrol hut; you can see it clearly here on the map.

在山的另一面是六百米的斜坡，用了一个小时我们就到了边境巡逻哨卡；你在地图上可以清楚地看到那个哨卡。

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That border, excuse me, they are relics the British Empire are exiting in the minds of map-makers and politicians, not in the minds of people.

那个边境，不好意思，是大英帝国所建造的，只存在于,地图制造者和政治家的脑中，而人们并不认可它。

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