The message is clear. If Washington scales back its support for Pakistan, there is more than one game in town.

这当中传达的信息非常明显：如果美国减少对巴基斯坦的支持, 巴基斯坦还可以留有一手.

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Much of this could be traced back to the lung-cancer epidemic that had followed the surge in smoking in the 1950s, but the message was clear.

虽然大量的死亡是由于20世纪50年代烟民数量激增后随之而流行的肺癌引起的，但是癌症并未得到控制的事实显而易见。

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The militants meanwhile are sending out a very clear message that they haven't been defeated and that they can fight back.

同时，好战分子发出明确信息，他们并没有被打败，他们还能够反击。

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Superficially the stories heralded the introduction of Apple's retro-futuristic-looking iMac desktop (see "Back to the future"), but fresh off two back-to-back profitable quarters (the first in three years) the underlying message was clear: Apple is back.

FORBES: Apple offers sizzle