The power gap between France and Germany has become too obvious; and the issues that divide them are too fundamental. 法国和德国的实力差距已经太过明显,而且分化两国的都是非常基本的问题。
The Netherlands was a small country which had a large gap compared to France in the population size, land area and the preliminary development basis. 荷兰本是一个小国,其与同时期的法国相比,在人口规模、领土面积和前期发展基础上是有较大差距。
Now the European reserve personnel shorts badly, gap, Sweden, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and some other table tennis traditional powers, along with a number of senior players retired, level has dropped to historic lows. 如今欧洲后备人才严重匮乏,青黄不接,瑞典、德国、奥地利、法国、比利时等一些乒乓球传统强国,随着一批老队员的退役,水平降到了历史低点。
This gap partly reflects differences in geography : Britain is a crowded island, and in France the main shale gas reserves are found in places such as Paris and Provence. 这种态度上的差异一定程度上反映出地理上的差异:英国是一个人口众多的岛国,而在法国,页岩气储量集中在巴黎和普罗旺斯等地。