的确，非洲领导者们仍把自己的大陆看作是一位美丽的新娘，拥有着原油与矿产资源的闪烁嫁妆，而且会招致一个狂喜的世界去追求。

Indeed, Africa's leaders still like to think of their continent as a gorgeous bride, with a glittering dowry of oil and minerals, to be courted by a swooning world.

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而这还多亏了一件叫做闪烁对比仪的高科技法宝；他把两张在不同夜晚拍摄的天空中同一位置的照片放在这个仪器里，然后快速地来回浏览。

He did it with a high tech marvel called a blink comparator; he put two photographs of the same patch of sky taken on different nights into the contraption and flipped back and forth between them.

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一位巨人，雪白的肤色，闪烁着明亮的光，会产生发光的人。

Giant, snow-white in colour and gleaming bright, will beget a radiant people.

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