But if you look back at the sweep of history, it's striking how fleeting supremacy is, particularly for individual cities.

但如果回首看看历史，霸权如此短暂易逝，令人震惊，尤其是单个城市的荣耀更是如此。

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Her book covers the long sweep of the country's history.

她的著作涵盖了该国漫长的历史。

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Those who take a grand sweep of history are backing China's yuan as a big reserve currency of the future.

那些在历史上留下浓墨重彩的国家正在崛起，人民币在未来很可能成为重要的储备货币。

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And it is not, in the end, so peculiar to dart back and forth between great ideas, the broad sweep of history and the day-to-day practicalities of politics.

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This is wise, for the grand sweep of history can be scuppered by more specific problems, and he faces many.

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In the broad sweep of history, says Russell Jones, chief international economist at Lehman Brothers, inflation has followed a fairly consistent pattern.

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