Achingly beautiful St Petersburg, with its baroque palaces and sweeping broad boulevards, seemed immune from the sweeping tides of change remaking the architectural and cultural character of Moscow.

美丽至极的圣彼得堡，有着巴洛克式宫殿和宽广的林荫道，丝毫不受莫斯科建筑与文化革新潮流的影响。

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Winds and tides can affect the rotation of earth hundreds of times more than an earthquake can, but we still do not notice the change.

风和潮汐能影响一个时代比地震更可以旋转地球数百个，但我们仍然不通知更改。

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For some time we had felt the tides of change coming for HMV and here was our perfect opportunity to unambiguously say what we felt.

BBC: HMV: How the top dog lost its bite