One passage in The World is Flat points this out to me in very stark terms.
在扁平的世界这本书一个章节中，作者毫不掩饰地向我们指出了这一点。
Some scholars and pundits tell us the world is flat while others insist it's spiky.
有些专家学者说世界是平的，而另一些人则坚持世界是尖的。
Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Picador: 2007.
ThomasL.Friedman，世界是平的：二十一世纪简史，Picador：2007 年。
The concept was popularised by an American journalist, Thomas Friedman, in his book “The World is Flat”.
这个观点被一个美国记者ThomasFriedman的著作《世界是平的》大为推广。
The world is flat, the network is open. Don't count on you always having the Sunday punch that others don't have.
世界是平的，网络是公开的，不要指望自己一直拥有别人没有的杀手锏，稍微做得好一点，全村都盯着你、模仿你。
Surely Mr Friedman (author of "the World is Flat") and company are right about where we are headed even if they exaggerate how far we have got?
除去被夸张的部分，佛理德曼先生(《世界是平的》的作者)与跨国公司们对于改变趋势的判断就一定正确嘛？
If you don't know what "flat" refers to here, then you haven't read Tom Friedman's book, the World is flat: a Brief History Of the 21st Century.
如果你不知道这里提到的“扁平的”是什么意思，那你一定没有读过Friedman的书，The World is Flat：aBriefHistoryOf The 21st Century(《扁平的世界：二十一世纪简史》)。
While soybean import demand for the EU-27 and the rest of the world is flat, those areas are importing considerably more soybean meal this year.
尽管欧盟27国及世界其它国家的大豆进口需求未见起色，但这些地区本年度的豆粕进口量却明显上升。
Thomas L. Friedman says in his exciting and readable book about globalization that "the world is flat or at least becoming flatter very quickly".
托马斯·弗里德曼在他那本关于全球化的令人兴奋和可读的书中说：“世界是平坦的，或者至少变得非常的平坦”。
The "geography is dead" concept has been presented convincingly by Thomas Friedman in his bestseller, the World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first Century 1.
ThomasFriedman在他的畅销作品世界是平面的：21世纪简史1中有说服力地提出“地理界限消失了”的概念。
It's interdisciplinary combinations-design and technology, mathematics and art - "that produce YouTube and Google," says Thomas Friedman, the best-selling author of the World is Flat.
“是学科交叉——设计和技术，数学和艺术——创造了YouTube和Google”，畅销书《世界是平的》的作者Thomas Friedman说道。
I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to.
我有一种想法，就是对我们来说，世界是一个我们所站立的平坦的东西，而对鸟来说是一个它们所依靠的峭壁。
I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to, a huge ball and they cling to the side and then fall off and fly and glide.
我有一种想法，就是对我们来说世界是一个我们所站立的平坦的东西，而对鸟来说是一个它们所依靠的峭壁，一个巨大的球，它们依靠在边上，然后离开、飞翔、滑行。
And because the world is I quote flat, you can easily, no matter where you are, access these people and these spikes.
因为这个世界是平的，所以无论你在哪里都可以轻松地，找到这些人和这些活动的分布状况。
Today, XML is the fundamental technology driving the internationalization of applications in the increasingly flat world.
现在，在这个日益趋平的世界中，XML 成了推动应用程序国际化的基本技术。
Where else in the world has consumption grown by 7 per cent over the past 5 quarters? US consumption is flat on the horizon. Same for Europe and Japan.
世界上还有哪个地区在过去5个季度中消费增长7%的？美国的消费停滞不前，欧洲和日本也一样。
Today Samsung is the world leader in flat-panel TVs and the number two in mobile phones.
如今，三星是全球平板电视的风向标，也是手机市场的第二把交椅。
Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of discords as well as of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud.
一如世界的和声，我们的生活是由不和谐的和弦以及不同的音调组成的：柔和的、粗犷的、尖利的、平缓的、轻的和响的。
Okumu, who is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he is “working on the premise that this is a global problem — a global problem in a flat world.”
在伦敦大学卫生保健和热带医学院攻读博士学位的Okumu说，他是“他在这样一个前提下工作，即这是一个全球性的问题――一个世界范围内的全球性问题。”
As the leading nano-manufacturing company in the world, Applied Materials’ technology is behind practically every semiconductor and flat panel in the world.
作为世界领先的纳米制造公司，AMAT 的技术实际上被应用于世界上每一家半导体和平面显示面板公司。
I knew we were intertwined, I knew the world was flat, but what I've really learned is just how flat it's become.
我早就知道所有人都密不可分，也知道世界是平的，但我真正学到的是，世界竟然已变得这么平。
Microsoft purchased Danger's Sidekick, once a darling of the mobile world, fell flat when they lost clients data and is now all but forgotten.
Microsfot曾经购买过移动市场上的宠儿Sideclick，但是在丢失所有用户数据之后一蹶不振，现在已经完全被忘记了。
The brain can be fooled this way because this is how it perceives depth when confronted with the real world rather than a flat screen.
大脑“被欺骗”的原因是那正是在遇到现实世界而不是平面屏幕时它感知深度的方式。
The answer is "yes"– even if both businesses were expected to have flat unit volume – as long as you anticipated, as we did in 1972, a world of continuous inflation.
答案是“对”。即便两个业务都预期有停滞的业务量，只要你预计到了一个持续通胀的世界，正如我们在1972年预计的那样，这个答案就是“对”。
The answer is "yes"– even if both businesses were expected to have flat unit volume – as long as you anticipated, as we did in 1972, a world of continuous inflation.
答案是“对”。即便两个业务都预期有停滞的业务量，只要你预计到了一个持续通胀的世界，正如我们在1972年预计的那样，这个答案就是“对”。
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