We 've gone from being two nations with hardly any ties to speak of , little bearing on each other , to being thoroughly , inescapably interdependent .
我们两国从几乎无任何关系可言、彼此几乎毫不相干,变成完全地、无法避免地相互依赖。
The olympic games are inescapably a political as well as a sporting event , but the flames of the torch on its troubled passage have merely evaporated the little that remained of the elusive olympic spirit .
Those cycles may not be much in evidence amid the quiet tanks and rolling hills at cushing . But they are inescapably part of the global landscape of the new world of oil .