2, Thanks to the means of modern transportation and communication, the world is getting smaller and smaller.

由于现代交通和通讯手段的应用，世界变得越来越小。

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The world is getting smaller and smaller, so being able to speak more than one language is very important for business.

世界是越来越小，所以能够讲一种以上的语言对企业是非常重要的。

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Why is the world getting smaller and smaller?

为什么世界越来越小？

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Even though the world is getting smaller and smaller, very few startups can yet afford to patent or even sell their product in all the relevant countries at once.

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And how you respond to each other is going to be probably as important as any speech that a President makes in encouraging the kinds of religious tolerance that I think is so necessary in a world that's getting smaller and smaller, where more and more people of different backgrounds, different races, different ethnicities are interacting and working and learning from each other.

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