The "geography is dead" concept has been presented convincingly by Thomas Friedman in his bestseller, the World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first Century 1.

Thomas Friedman在他的畅销作品世界是平面的：21世纪简史1中有说服力地提出“地理界限消失了”的概念。

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We're in a post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era, in that brief period in American history where we felt confident and almost complacent in our place in the world.

我们身处后‘水门事件’时代和后越战时代，在美国历史上这短短一页里，我们感到自信，为我们国家的世界地位而沾沾自喜。

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If you don't know what "flat" refers to here, then you haven't read Tom Friedman's book, the World is flat: a Brief History Of the 21st Century.

如果你不知道这里提到的“扁平的”是什么意思，那你一定没有读过Friedman的书，The World is Flat： a Brief History Of The 21st Century(《扁平的世界：二十一世纪简史》)。

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Even the most inept Israeli politicians know that, unless Iran can be kept from developing a bomb, modern Israel will only be a brief and tragic chapter in world history.

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Although "apartheid" is now a familiar term in much of the world, a few brief details of its history seem necessary to explain its grotesque impact on the life of Ruth Khumalo as well as on her children and their children, including the boy.

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Because it provides a view of big historical and global developments going back to World War I, although the old history is brief, through the experiences of an American family.

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