The book Longitude by Dava Sobel tells the story of John Harrison who figured out how to calculate how far east or west a ship was on the ocean.
达瓦索贝尔写的这本书《经度》讲述了约翰哈里森如何计算出轮船在海面上从东到西航行距离的故事。
It is pretty common knowledge that when Christopher Columbus headed out he thought he was heading for the Far East by way of the west.
一个普遍的共识是，当克里斯托弗·哥伦布出海之时，他认为他正取道西部前往远东。
The companies have worked together in recent years but fell out in 2006 in a dispute over the Sakhalin 2 liquefied-gas project in Russia's far east.
两家公司近年来一直合作密切。但由于俄罗斯远东地区库页岛2液化气项目引发争执，两家公司在2006年分崩离析。
FOR over a decade Royal Dutch Shell, along with its Japanese partners, Mitsui and Mitsubishi, has been struggling to coax oil and gas out of the frozen seas off Sakhalin Island, in Russia's far east.
十多年来，英荷皇家壳牌公司及其日本合作伙伴，三井公司和三菱公司，一直试图劝诱俄罗斯，在其远东的萨哈林岛（库叶岛二号项目）附近冰封的海上开采石油和天然气。
"Don't you realize," one of them said, "that the cost to us (Germany) of bailing out Greece is far less than it cost us to reintegrate East Germany after the wall came down in 1989?"
“你不知道吗？”这两人中的一个说，“我们(德国)救助希腊的成本远低于1989年柏林墙倒塌后重新统一东德的成本。”
The exercise, code-named "Peace Mission-2009", will be carried out in Russia's Far East and China's Shenyang Military Command.
此次联合军演代号为"和平使命-2009"，将在俄罗斯远东军区和沈阳军区展开。
The industrial production of the Russian Far East in 2001 didn't bottom out, but there appeared a recovery increase in industrial sectors.
工业是俄罗斯远东地区的主导经济部门。 2001年远东工业仍未走出低谷，但有的工业部门生产已出现恢复性增长。
The Russianshave also reached out to Middle East sovereign wealth funds. So far most private equity firms have regarded Russiawith extreme caution.
俄方也与中东主权财富基金进行了接洽。迄今为止，大多数私人股本公司都以极其谨慎的态度看待俄罗斯。
As far as I'm concerned, at this point, America needs to pull out of the Middle East. Build its own defenses to a level not seen in history.
就我来说，我觉得美国应该退出中东，建设一个人类历史上最强大的防御体系。
Fielding tells it well - he went all over Europe and hung out in Turkey, Morocco and the Far East.
菲尔丁还说—他走遍了整个欧洲，也曾在土耳其、摩洛哥和远东地区待过。
Last night, I just did not come out of my home far, the two 20-year-old woman came and said: "Brother to Guangzhou East Railway Station how to?"
昨天晚上，我刚从我的住处出来没多远，两位20来岁的女子过来，说：“大哥，去广州火车东站怎么走？”
Last night, I just did not come out of my home far, the two 20-year-old woman came and said: "Brother to Guangzhou East Railway Station how to?"
昨天晚上，我刚从我的住处出来没多远，两位20来岁的女子过来，说：“大哥，去广州火车东站怎么走？”
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