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The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained.

在纽兰·阿切尔那个时代，纽约的上流社会还是个滑溜溜的小金字塔，人们很难在上面开凿裂缝，找到立足点。

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The summary table at the top of the pyramid is small, so queries on it are very fast.

金字塔顶端的汇总表比较小，因此对它的查询非常快。

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"But then,at the top of the pyramid, you have a small-but-growing group of entrepreneurs in China who see that greening their business is not just a legal requirement, nor a responsible act to do.

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The only way manual systems could work for a larger group would be through a pyramid-like mechanism, with small groups reporting their manually obtained results up the chain to more central tabulating authorities.

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Moreover, since the pyramid of people who ever swing a three-wood is small in the global scheme, it is hard to argue that the best golfer in the world is really the best that mankind can offer.

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