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?

That is, if anything, less dismissive than the last time the MTA threw cold water on the notion of sending the subway system across city and state borders for the first time.

WSJ: N.J. Subway Idea Lives

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