Economic globalization has both blurred the boundaries between nations and given a substantial international role to those giant companies for whom such boundaries make little sense.
经济全球化既模糊了国与国之间的界限，也让那些认为这种界限毫无意义的大公司获得了实质性的国际地位。
I began working on my latest book, The Buried Giant, in 2004, but I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.
我在2004年开始写我的新书《被掩埋的巨人》，但在给妻子看了一小部分之后，我就停止创作了。
This is a true story. Poor Dick was a little bird, and the giant was a cruel boy.
这是个真实的故事。可怜的迪克是一只小鸟，巨人是一个残忍的男孩。
This is the moment a little girl amazed her family by producing a giant, dolphin-shaped bubble during an evening barbecue.
英国小女孩谢尔比-杜威与家人在野餐时，吹出了一个海豚形状的大肥皂泡，令全家人惊讶不已。
Mr Apotheker, who used to run SAP, a German software giant, has made little secret of his desire to see HP expand in highly profitable software businesses.
曾经执掌过德国软件巨擘SAP的Apotheker先生很少掩饰他想让HP进入高利润软件业务的想法。
To me, working in a giant corporation is a little like taking your successes and failures, rolling them up into a giant ball, then tossing them out into space, never to be seen again.
对我来说，在一个巨大的公司工作，有点像把你的成功或者失败的经验卷成一个巨大的球，然后将他们投到太空里，再也看不到。
The reality is not quite so simple, but there is little doubt that when GM pulled the plug on its EV1 battery-powered car a decade ago, other manufacturers followed the giant carmaker's lead.
实际情况虽然并非如此简单，然而可以肯定的是，当十年前通用决定停止生产其电动车EV1之时，其他汽车制造商也无不紧随这位汽车制造巨商的脚步。
At FIRST glance Citigroup, a giant of American banking, and Wolseley, a British firm that makes building products, have little in common.
乍看之下，美国银行业巨头花旗集团和制造建筑产品的英国企业沃尔斯利并没有共同之处。
The update is a big change for the search giant, which used to pride itself on how little time it took its lightweight homepage to load.
对于搜索巨人来讲，这是一个巨大的变化。 因为它曾称道自己的主页加载如何迅速。
The team think it is rocky because it weighs only five times asmuch as Earth—too little for a gas giant.
他们之所以认定它是一颗岩状行星，是因为它的质量仅为地球的五倍——与气态行星相比实在相去甚远。
"If the whole moon has the amount of water equivalent to what we analysed, then the giant impact theory is in a little trouble, " says Saal.
如果整个月球的水含量都与我们的测量结果相近，那么月球大碰撞说会有些小麻烦。
Rooster tells of his meeting with a 90-foot giant (" Just off the A14 outside Upavon. About half a mile from the Little Chef ").
“雄鸡”述说着他如何偶遇90英尺高的巨人(就在阿佩文之外的A14，离小切辅还有半英里)。
At Epcot the main attraction (that big giant Epcot ball) houses Spaceship Earth; a ride that takes you back through the history of our little planet.
在未来世界，最主要的景观（巨大的爱波皮卡球）内有太空船地球；星球历史之旅。
All of this is vaguely endearing and even consoling-a little like watching a giant computer hash up some simple arithmetic.
所有这一切都让人隐隐地感到喜爱与宽慰就好像一台超级计算机无法搞定一些简单幼稚的数学题一样。
But what Steve Jobs showed us yesterday was in fact little more than a giant iPhone.
但是昨天SteveJobs展示给我们的实际上只是比一个大个头iPhone好不了多少的东西。
"The alumni network is like a giant little black book you can access years after you leave," says Jenny Soderlind, alumni communications manager at London Business School.
“校友圈子就像一本绝妙的小黑册子，在你离校多年后都可以使用，”伦敦商学院(London Business School)校友交流管理人詹妮·索德·林德表示。
Inside, all the family were gathered round the big kitchen fire that lit up the little room with a warm glow and made giant shadows dance on the walls and ceiling.
在室内，全家人聚集在厨房的大火炉旁，炉火用它那温暖的火光照亮了这间小屋，跳动的炉火还使得那些巨大的影子在墙上和天花板上不断晃动。
Elsa stomps her little slippered foot and a layer of ice suddenly coats the floor, forming a giant ice rink. Anna slides off, laughing.
艾尔莎跺了一下她穿着拖鞋的脚，随后一层冰突然覆盖了地面，形成了一片巨大的冰场。安娜滑开了，大笑着。
With a little luck, you can spot jaguars, pink dolphins and giant otters at the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse natural reserve.
亚马逊雨林是世界上最大以及生物最多样化的自然保护区，如果幸运的话，你能在亚马逊雨林亲眼目睹美洲虎、粉色海豚和巨獭。
The quirky little computer company has grown into a giant.
这个特立独行的小公司已经变成一个巨人。
That was what we learned, was that, us, two, you know, we didn't know much, we could build the little thing that could control a giant thing. And that was an incredible lesson.
这就是我们得到的启发，我们两个人尽管懂得不多，但我们制造的小玩意可以控制庞然大物。
It is a red rubber band left there by the postman. When my elder son was little he would seize on these bands and add them to the giant rubber band ball he was making.
在我的大儿子小的时候，他会利用这些橡皮筋，把它们缠绕在自己制作的巨大橡皮筋球上。
One day the little girl met a giant in the basketball team.
有一天，小女孩在篮球队遇到一位巨人。
Bamboo is panda's favorite food. The giant panda eat a lot of bamboo in a day. If they only eat a little, they will die.
竹子是大熊猫最喜欢吃的食物，它在一天中要吃掉很多的竹子，如果他们只吃一点点，那么他们将会死掉的。
"Out!" said the giant. "Out, little man, and make way for me, unless you want a ducking in the stream."
我们叫它至尊鳄鱼，并希望能够揭开一些长久以来萦绕在人们心头的关于这种记载甚少的巨型鳄鱼的谜团。
You can see the little landmark a block away as the piece of giant metal triangle float in the air.
银色的巨型三角漂浮空中，街角远远就能望见这个小地标。
You can see the little landmark a block away as the piece of giant metal triangle float in the air.
银色的巨型三角漂浮空中，街角远远就能望见这个小地标。
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