In these patent offices, America dominated, with 41.8% of the world's patents in 2006, a share that had fallen only slightly over the previous our years.

在这些国家的专利局中，美国一国独大，2006年占全球专利数量的41.8%。这一比例只比这之前的几年稍微下降。

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Other parts of North America have also been affected, but the damage in British Columbia is particularly severe, and particularly troubling in a province whose economy is dominated by timber.

北美其他地区也受到影响，但不列颠哥伦比亚省的损失尤为严重，其经济以木材为主的省份更加令人不安。

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Mike Hogan, the boss of ZiXXo, a start-up near San Francisco, says that he is “disrupting the existing coupon system”, dominated by companies such as Valpak and Valassis in America.

Mike Hogan，一家建立在旧金山的公司-ZiXXo的老板，说他“正在瓦解现存的优惠券系统”这个系统在美国被Valpak 和 Valassis这样的公司掌控着。

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You can see in the New World with maize being important how America has become a corn dominated society, even though it's still true that we raise wheat, we raise other things in the United States, and we can import different foods, corn has become an incredibly important constituent of the diet in the U.S.

你能发现玉米在美洲大陆的重要性,那美洲是怎样变成主食玉米的社会的呢,尽管我们仍然种植小麦,在美国也种植其他粮食,而且我们能进口各种不同食物,但是玉米还是变成了,美国人食谱中不可代替的部分

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