Cities from Mumbai in the west to Sydney in the east - and all points between - project plans to become a "hub" or a "gateway".

从西部的孟买，到东部的悉尼，还有中间所有城市，都制定了成为“中心”或者“门户”的计划。

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Property in Chicago, a railway hub and the gateway to the West, attracted wild speculation.

作为铁路枢纽与通往西部的门户，芝加哥的房地产遭致了狂热的投机。

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Down at the docks of Yokohama, Japan's biggest port and its gateway to the West, hundreds of well-wishers were seeing off the Empress of Australia, a 615-foot luxury steamship bound for Vancouver.

在日本最大的港口横滨港的西侧出口，上百位善心人士为澳大利亚王后号送行，一艘前往温哥华的615英尺长的豪华蒸汽船。

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The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

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It was named in honor of Saint Louis, which was historically called "The Gateway to the West."

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Louis likes to call itself the gateway to the West.

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French intelligence identified about 200 vehicles and thousands of men, mounting a two-pronged offensive - from Douentza in the east and from Lere in the west, near Mauritania - aimed at seizing the strategic city of Mopti, gateway to the Malian south.

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"Our country is the gateway for this kind of drug-resistant malaria to spread west to Bangladesh and India, " Saw Lwin, from Burma's Health Ministry, told reporters in Thailand.

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