对于拍卖行而言，举行主要的交易是他们扩张的一种很明显的方式。

For the auction houses, primary dealing is an obvious way of expanding.

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虽然他们扩张安全领域，上海合作组织(SCO)首脑们否认任何的意图产生北约的一个欧亚版本。

Notwithstanding their expanding security activities, Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) leaders deny any intention to create a Eurasian version of Nato.

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他们的战略是扩张主义的和帝国主义的，当然，它在没有抗衡力量的时候就会达到最大效果。

Their strategy is expansionist and imperialist, and it is greatest in effect, of course, when there is no countervailing power.

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They expand north to Archangel, so this gives them a port, but a frozen one.

他们向北扩张到阿尔汉格尔,有了一个港口,但常年冰冻

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So, between 1650 and 1750, and this is right out of what you're reading, the rulers of continental Europe, of the biggest states extended their power.

所以从1650年到1750年这段时期,这正好与你们阅读的内容一致,欧陆上,统治者们扩张了他们的势力

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And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.

作为Facebook的领导者，马克始终坚持选人标准，从不手软，他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为，如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。

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