So one answer to the question-why are third-world cities so big? -is.

所以，关于这个问题——为什么第三世界的城市这么大？

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Since 1998, the GaWC at Loughborough has tried to define and refine a set of criteria that world cities have to correspond to.

从1998年开始，拉夫煲大学的GaWC就开始不断试图给世界级城市需要达到的标准给一个定义。

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Shanghai, with an elegant new skyline and balletic freeways that surpass even most First World cities, itself is far from environmentally shabby.

还有上海，一个拥有优美的城市轮廓线、优雅的高速公路，这一切甚至超过发达国家城市，完全不是想象中的破败景象。

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An American stuck in London, already one of the world's highest priced cities, found that her hotel had doubled its prices.

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The city, as Aristotle understands, will always exist in a world with other cities or other states, based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.

城市，如亚里士多德所认为，将永远会,和其它城市或国家同时存在，根于不同的管理原则,可能还会对自己人怀有敌意。

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There is an expansion of the Greek world already by the tenth century, and these folks are now settled down, so that some of these cities are in fact among the most important cities sending out colonies of their own.

希腊世界不停地扩展,一直到10世纪,那些逃亡者才安定下来,因此,这当中的,一些重要城市都拥有自己隶属的殖民地

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Beijing was merely following the path of other world cities, such as London, Paris and New York, he said.

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London has been selected to host a race in the debut Formula E series, which will see electric cars race around major world cities.

BBC: London to host Formula E electric car race in 2014

The shot-blasted, satin-brushed and polished rotating bezel bears the names of 24 world cities, symbols of the international 24 time zones on its brown upper flange.

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