It was already well known that personality traits vary across geographic regions.

众所周知，一方水土养一方人。

An indigenous people is any ethnic group who have inhabited a geographic region for hundreds or thousands of years.

土著人指少数民族种群在某一地区生活数百或数千年。

In these geographic regions, malaria poses significant risks to health.

在这些地理区域，疟疾对健康构成重大威胁。

" And the same thing with different geographic regions: " What's happening in Florida?

” 对于不同的地理区域也是如此：“佛罗里达州正在发生什么？

Sheela Turbek: Normally, for speciation to occur organisms have to be confined to different geographic regions in order to accumulate genetic differences.

Sheela Turbek：通常情况下，要发生物种形成，生物体必须局限于不同的地理区域，以便积累遗传差异。

With time, outbreaks of disease that spread across large geographic regions and that ultimately affect large numbers of people worldwide — known as pandemics — have become no more merciful.

随着时间的推移，在大范围地理区域传播并最终影响全球各地大量人口的疾病爆发——即所谓的大流行病——已经变得没有仁慈可言。

In the marketing and strategic management literature, globalization is conceptualized as a means to gain competitive advantage by locating different stages of production in different geographic regions according to the particular region's comparative advantages.

在营销和战略管理文献中，全球化的概念是，根据特定地区的比较优势，确立不同地区生产的不同阶段，从而获得竞争优势的一种手段。