WTD raises our awareness of the importance of telecommunications in today's global village.

世界电信日提醒我们电信如今在地球村的重要性。

Our world has become a global village We depend on each other.

世界已经变成一个地球村我们要相辅相成。

But nowadays we are a global village, it's easy to deal with any foreign country.

但现在我们是一个地球村了，与任何国家打交道都很容易。

But the global village is a world of limitless possibilities, and we can never achieve our aim.

然而，地球村是一个有着无限可能的世界，我们永远无法实现自己的目标。

We are becoming a small, interdependent, global village.

我们正在成为一个相互依存的小地球村。

I used to say we all belong to the global village.

我曾经说过我们都属于地球村。

I've often referred, half jokingly, to this long period of human history as the era of the first global village.

我经常半开玩笑地将这段漫长的人类历史称为第一个地球村时代。

Right, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt about internet connections between people living at a physical distance in the modern world, something described as the global village.

好了，让我们回顾一下我们本期节目中学过的词汇， 这些词汇和现代世界中相隔一定距离的人们之间的网络连接有关，也就是所谓的地球村。

In the ever-converging global village, these legends remind us of the shared human love for storytelling and the diverse cultural canvases from which these stories emerge.

在不断融合的地球村中，这些传说提醒我们人类对讲故事的共同热爱，以及这些故事产生的多元化文化背景。

The Industrial Revolution was an essential step  in transforming the world into a global village, as it brought significant progress in means  of transportation and communication.

工业革命是将世界转变为地球村的重要一步，因为它带来了交通和通讯方式的重大进步。

Fibre optics and broadband have created superfast internet speeds and an interconnected online world, where physical distances between people are no longer a barrier to communication - a situation expressed in the phrase, the global village.

光纤和宽带创造了超高速的网速和一个相互连接起来的网络世界， 在网络世界中，人与人之间的物理距离不再是沟通的障碍——这种情况在 “地球村”这个短语中得到体现。

We enter the new millennium in the hope that the rich fruits of learning, science and technological progress will in this coming century truly be shared by all in this global village in

进入新的千年，希望在下个世纪，学习、科技进步的丰硕成果，真正为这个地球村的所有人所共享。