I gotta find The World Is Flat.

傻瓜都知道世界是圆的。

The world is flat?

世界是平的? ！

"Honey," I confided, "I think the world is flat."

“亲爱的”我说，“我认为世界是平坦的。”

Probably it's The World Is Round, not The World Is Flat.

很可能是《世界是圆的》，而不是《世界是平的》。

Daniel: Excuse me, do you know a book called The World Is Flat?

丹尼尔：打扰一下，你知道有一本书叫《世界是平的》吗？

Daniel: My dad asked me to get a book for him, The World Is Flat.

丹尼尔：我爸爸让我给他买本书，《世界是平的》。

Convenience and Efficiency the earth is round and the world is flat.

方便与快捷地球是圆的，世界是平的。

Mr Friedman went on to write the 2005 bestseller "the World Is Flat".

弗兰·德曼在此基础上写出了2005年的畅销书“世界是平的”。

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.

Thomas L. 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Thomas Friedman的著作《世界是平的》大为推广。

Salesman: the World is Flat? Let me think. Do you know who the author is? I will look it up for you.

售货员：《世界是平的》？让我想想。你知道作者是谁的吗？我帮你查查。

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： a Brief History Of 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.

Thomas Friedman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 Fried man说道。

Is the world flat?

世界是平的吗？

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。

Economists have reported for a long while now that the world is indeed flat.

经济学家很早就指出当今的世界实际上是平的。

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。