然而，更重要的是，在反对全球化的批评中，麦当劳首当其冲：实际上，它体现了所有全球化的缺点。

Much more than that, however, McDonald's represents to these critics all that is worst in globalisation: indeed, it represents all that is worst, full stop.

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在气候变化的情况下，自然灾害将使亚洲迅速城市化的地区，以及首当其冲的太平洋岛屿社区面临更为严重的自然灾害威胁。

With climate change, this threat of natural disaster will only worsen for Asia's rapidly urbanizing areas and for the exposed island communities of the Pacific.

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而如今，随着发达国家工业化规模不断扩大，人口出生率却在不断下降——在这方面，法国首当其冲，英国紧随其后，接着整个欧洲再加上美国也加入到了这一行列。

As industrialisation swept through what is now the developed world, fertility fell sharply, first in France, then in Britain, then throughout Europe and America.

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