You reach a certain bleary point in the evening, after the heartfelt toasts, after the cake-cutting, after the first dance to that song from Armageddon, when people drop their guards.

喝过了交心酒，切过了蛋糕，在绝世天劫的配曲中跳完了第一支舞，你迎来了这个夜晚的迷乱时刻，此时人们已经摆脱了他们的同行。

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Over the weeks and months, they killed off their remaining dogs (cutting their throats to save on ammunition), and at one particularly low point were forced to eat a porridge made of canine blood.

周复一周，月复一月，他们杀掉剩下的狗（为了节省弹药还只能是割断它们的喉咙），而在最为艰苦的时候，还不得不吃用狗血做成的稀饭。

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When the NSC had an hour to brief Clinton, Lake made a point of cutting the time to 50 minutes, ceding 10 precious minutes to the domestic staff.

当国科会有一个小时可以简要克林顿、湖泊有必要切割时间50分钟10分钟我,放弃对国内的员工。

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The limited number of polygons means that speeding up one of these systems to refresh the screen 60 times a second, as is needed to smoothly render fast-action scenes, requires cutting the number of polygons per screen to the point where detail suffers.

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