While the Greek world had expanded along the Mediterranean seas lanes, the Roman world was assembled by territorial conquest.

当希腊世界沿着地中海航线扩张时，罗马世界是通过征服领土而建立起来的。

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A century later the picture was completely different: by then, the world had an electric industry, and a quarter of its generating capacity was water powered.

一个世纪后，情况完全不同了：这时，世界上已经有了电力工业，其四分之一的发电量是水力驱动的。

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The world had witnessed a titanic struggle between two visions of the future.

世界见证了两种对未来的设想间的激烈较量。

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For the first time, scientists around the world had a limitless number of cells they could use to test the effects of diseases, medicines and chemicals.

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Most of the people in the world had no idea that that had occurred and it makes absolutely no difference to them.

世界上的大多数人,并不知道已经发生的这件事情,这对他们毫无意义。

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and it turned out recently that the News of the World had paid private detectives

最近的事实证明，《世界新闻报》雇了私家侦探

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Acting on that certainty, Rockefeller built the greatest fortune the world had ever seen.

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"I was unprepared for what the world had in store for me, " she said.

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The Jews in America responded by becoming the most successful immigrants the world had ever seen.

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