These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects, and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.

这些可能包括威胁冻结欧盟提供给贫困地区和欧盟大型项目的资金，甚至暂停某个成员国在欧盟部长级理事会的投票权。

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One of the key ideas fueling HSR is that the U.S. in the 21st century has grown beyond a country of cities and suburbs to what urban-studies expert Richard Florida calls "mega-regions."

力挺HSR项目的主要理由之一是：21世纪的美国已经不再是一个由城市和郊区组成的国家了，而变成了城市建设研究学者理查德·佛罗里达所称的“特大城市群”。

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Beyond Chicago and Detroit, the biggest losses among the mega-regions have taken place in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles-Long Beach and Boston.

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Perhaps more importantly, this resource potential is a hop, skip and a jump away from the mega-demand centers along the coastal regions of the East Coast.

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