The poor man is wont to complain that this is a cold world; and to cold, no less physical than social, we refer directly a great part of our ails.

可怜的人们总是习惯于抱怨这个世界的寒冷；我们也把大部分疾患的成因直接归罪于寒冷——既有自然的寒冷，也有人际的冷漠。

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Rather as America and the Soviet Union vied for influence through economic and military aid, the BRICs do now (though their competition is less fierce than the cold-war version).

过去美国和前苏联曾经通过经济和军事援助来争夺影响力，金砖四国现在也如出一辙，不过今时今日他们的竞争要比冷战时期的竞争温和多了。

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The electrons meet less resistance when the conductor is cold than when it is hot.

电子在导体冷却时遇到的阻力比导体热时的小。

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For many analysts the world is now a less stable place than it was during the Cold War.

BBC: How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

Institutional and economic interests are bound to be hurt when a behemoth like the Pentagon re-orients itself to deal with a world that is much less predictable, but no less dangerous, than that of the cold war.

ECONOMIST: New wars and old