当我们都生活在托马斯·弗里德曼的“扁平行星”*上时，国际商业交往的概念很容易实施，那里的贸易壁垒已经落下，全球化则高速前进。
It was easy to support the concept of international commerce when we were living on Thomas Friedman's "Planet Flat, " where the barriers to trade fell away and globalization kicked into high gear.
这一系统适应于某些领域，比如一个小岛的交往社区，而对分散于全球的人们之间的交往则作用不大。
In some areas the result is closer to a small Island community than a dispersed global population.
在当今世界人类交往更趋频繁的崭新形势下，全球史观已成为不可逆转的时代趋向。
The view of global history has been an inevitable trend in the situation that people communicate more frequently nowadays.
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