Nations have polarized into superexporters and superimporters, and much of this trade passes through vulnerable choke points, such as the Turkish Straits and the Suez and Panama Canals.

世界各国已经两极化，变成超级出口国或超级进口国，而绝大部分的贸易得经过脆弱的咽喉要道，例如土耳其海峡、苏伊士运河和巴拿马运河。

Thus, when speakers of these two cultures are leaving each other, if the English speaker gestures " good-bye, " the Far Eastern speaker may misinterpret the signal as meaning, " come back here."

因此，当这两种文化的人彼此要道再见时，万一英语系人士以手势表示“再见”，那远东人士很可能误解这个手势为“过来”之意。

These included Constantinople's choice location, its closeness to trade routes, a more highly urbanized society and most importantly the knack of diverting Barbarian invasions away from them and towards the Western Empire.

例如，君士坦丁堡的地理近东西贸易要道，社会高度城市化，更重要的是，他们能够避开蛮族入侵，并且把蛮族引向入侵西罗马帝国。

Heavily armed sheriff's deputies guarded that station and other parts of the transit system following the threat, which was reported to an overseas anonymous tip line.

受到威胁后，全副武装的治安官卫着这座车站和其他要道。据报道，爆料来自海外匿名举报热线。

The race to free the ship and unblock one of the world's most vital arteries at its most critical moment, therefore, began immediately.

因此，在这世界上最重要的要道最关键的时刻，解救这艘船、疏这要道的竞赛立即展开。

This is a little odd because this region is so close to the primary shipping lanes connecting to Asia.

这一现象颇为反常，因为北部紧邻往亚洲的主要航运要道。

After World War II, Copenhagen directed all new development along five arteries— each sandwiched between a park.

第二次世界大战后，丹麦哥本哈根市将所有新的开发项目布局在五城市要道周边，彼此间有公园相隔。

Windows was the choke point, just as the bridge to St Louis was in the railroad case.

Windows系统就是咽喉要道，就像铁路案例中往圣路易斯的大桥一样。

These passes basically act like natural chokepoints for the movement of people all across Afghanistan.

这些山口基本就像阿富汗各地人民流动的天然咽喉要道。

Just a few curls on that throat is a Lebanese army checkpoint, familiar to everyone here.

就在距离那个咽喉要道不远处是一个黎巴嫩军事检查站，和其他地方的检查站无甚差别。

The crossing gave the railroad trust a chokehold over traffic to and from the city's main terminal.

这道让这一铁路托拉斯扼住了往返圣路易斯市主要终点站的咽喉要道。

The many valleys in between the mountains where the people actually live are separated from all of the other valleys by mountains and connected only by narrow choke points.

山区之间的许多谷地是人们实际居住的地方，这些谷地与其他所有谷地之间都被高山隔开，只有狭窄的咽喉要道相连。

With a British blockade due to the war forcing coastal shipping to route through Stanton Island and overland across New Jersey, Vanderbilt's position between Manhattan and Stanton Island suddenly became a commercial chokepoint and one where he could take advantage.

由于战争导致的英国封锁迫使沿海航运改道过斯塔顿岛， 并陆路穿越新泽西，范德比尔特于曼哈顿与斯塔顿岛之间的突然变成了一个商业咽喉要道， 而他正好可以借此机会获利。

So when we attempted to go to another prison, Ilopango prison, which used to be the big prison until it was replaced by Secot, That's actually right on a major throwaway, but there were no people coming in and out.

所以当我们试图去另一所监狱，伊洛潘戈监狱， 这所监狱以前是最大的监狱， 直到被塞卡特监狱取代。实际上它就在一个主要的要道上，但没有人在进出。

I think we need to go back over actually a couple of different administrations because, and this has literally been laid out quite well in two new books, one called The Underground Empire and the other called Chokepoint.

我认为我们需要回顾过去几届政府的情况，因为这一点在两本新书中得到了很好的阐述，一本叫《地下帝国》， 另一本叫《咽喉要道》。

You know, thus far, vessels from this fleet have been able to pass through choke points that the alliance controls, like the Skagorak, relying on the laws regarding freedom of navigation in international straits.

你知道，到目前为止， 这支舰队的船只能够依靠国际海峡航行自由的相关法律， 过联盟控制的咽喉要道，比如斯卡格拉克海峡。

And the road is close to traffic, so there's no need to worry about cars getting in the way or anything, so dogs can just go straight over and have a nibble.

而且这路靠近要道， 所以不用担心汽车挡路或者什么的，狗可以直过去啃一啃。

Helsing believes, for example, that naval drones could persistently monitor the chokepoints between Greenland, Iceland and Britain for one-twentieth of the cost of today's crewed frigates.

Helsing认为，例如，海军无人机能够以当今有人驾驶护卫舰成本的二十分之一，持续监控格陵兰、冰岛与英国之间的咽喉要道。

It began in the autumn of 1941, where the city's veins and arteries were essentially cut off, the road links, all the rail links.

它始于1941年的秋天，当时城市的要道和所有铁路连都被切断了。

It sits on the banks of the Guadalquivir river, which flows through the city and is an important  source of water and transportation.

它坐落在瓜达尔基维尔河畔，这河流穿城而过， 是重要的水源和要道。