我们离开基地后不久便发现,敌方侦查员们正在远处的屋顶上跟踪我们的动向,他们一贯这么做。
Almost immediately after we left the base it became clear that spotters were tracking our movements from distant rooftops, as they always do.
其实他们中的很多人在那时前不久才刚刚对自己血统的起源地产生兴趣,其中的一部分人——保守一点说——对与他们的祖先的家乡和驱使先辈们离开家乡的原因怀有一些奇怪的想法。
Many of them had only recently discovered an interest in their origins and some, it seems safe to say, held peculiar ideas about where their forebears had come from and what impelled them to leave.
不久前离开瑞银的那位高层银行家说,我们要求手下干活,却不给他们任何奖励,我觉得自己真不像是个经理。
'I don't feel like I'm a manager when we ask for all the work and we give them no rewards,' said the senior banker who recently decamped.
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