It is over600km ( 370 miles ) by boat from the almost elegant European city of Khabarovsk to the desperate little port of Nikolaevsk, where people and buildings lurch at all angles. 乘船从优美典雅的欧式城市哈巴罗夫斯克[即伯力,位于黑龙江和乌苏里江交汇处&译者]到破落的小港尼古拉耶夫斯克只是600公里(370英里)多的路程。
Almost all continental European politicians backed the euro. And in the US and UK, both main parties wanted to invade Iraq. 欧洲大陆几乎所有国家的领导人都支持欧元,而在美国和英国,主要党派都赞成入侵伊拉克。
However, almost two-thirds of European respondents – 63 per cent – said that China and Europe had such different values that co-operating on international problems would prove impossible. 然而,近三分之二的欧洲受访者(63%)表示,中国和欧洲的价值观非常不同,在国际问题上合作将是不可能的。
Go into a large department store or hotel in almost any big European city and you can pay in Swiss francs, sterling or dollars as well as euros. 在几乎所有的欧洲大型城市,人们去大型百货商店或酒店消费都可以用瑞士法郎、英镑或美元以及欧元付账。
Since the UK, France and Germany have seats by right, this would almost certainly mean smaller European countries such as the Nordic nations, the Netherlands and Belgium giving up seats. 由于英国、法国和德国拥有固定席位,这将几乎肯定意味着较小的欧洲国家,如北欧国家、荷兰和比利时要放弃席位。