His main area of interest is globalisation ( see article), and his main thesis is that the world is not flat-in direct contradiction to the hugely bestselling book by Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, called "the world is flat".

Their discovery made television headlines, the cover of National Geographic, and was the subject of a bestselling book.

他们的发现马上成为电视的头条新闻、国家地理杂志的封面、以及一本畅销书的主角。

The elected President was sworn in.

当选总统宣誓就职.

The flute would be intruding here like a delicate lady at a club smoker ( Leonard Bernstein )

长笛在这儿显得突兀,犹如优雅的小姐在老烟枪身边 ( 伦纳德伯恩斯坦 )

If you're competent in the least, you found the briefcase.

若你们还有点能力就已找到皮箱。

To be competent in his field, he must develop a working knowledge of this aspect.

为了使自己能胜任所从事工作，必须加深这方面知识。

Some young teachers are not so competent in their teaching.

有些年轻老师教学能力还比较欠缺。

There are a lot of doctors in our hospital, only a few of whom are competent in their work.

我们医院有许多医生，其中只有少数是称职的。

There are no successful people who are not recognized as being extremely competent in their chosen fields.

没有哪个成功人士不被认为是非常胜任其所从事的领域。

Quantum information theory is an inter-discipline of quantum mechanics and information theory, which is competent in some of impossible task within the conventional information science.

量子信息技术是量子力学和信息科学结合的产物，它可以解决许多经典信息论所不能够完成的问题。

The system proves competent in improving the effect of classroom teaching and students'performance.

研究结果表明：系统的运用能显著地提高课堂教学效果及学生成绩。

To improve the vocabulary use, the students have to be more competent in English language manipulating.

要在词汇图式方面有所提高，学生必须有较强的语言操纵能力。

The subjects who are more competent in grammatical competence are not necessarily more competent in pragmatic inference ability.

第三部分，语言能力强的受试者，他们的语用推理能力不一定强。

I believe I'm competent in this job, and have wonderful performance beyond your expectation.

我认为我一定能胜任这份工作，并且会给您出乎意料的表现。

Educators also claim that calculators are so inexpensive and commonplace that students must become competent in using them.

教育家们还声称，计算器如此便宜而又普遍，学生必须学会熟练使用。

Art students, as is generally known, are more passive and less competent in English learning than their counterparts.

众所周知，比起其他专业学生，艺术专业学生的英语学习态度更为消极，学习动机更低。

I'm competent in three languages.

我擅长三种语。

Maybe I am not your best choice at present, but I will be competent in a short time through my hard work and ability.

可能短时间内，我不是您的最佳人选，但我积极好学，接受能力强，在很短时间内便能胜任。

We know you are competent in managing this project.

我们知道你可以胜任管理这个项目。

To be competent in management and technical work and participate in college course studying and academic training.

可以胜任管理层或专业技术工作并能参加大学课程的专业学习和学术研修。

I was very worried that I might not be competent in my new work in the first few days when I came to the company.

刚到公司时，我深恐不能胜任新的工作。