The other common aspect of all these assignments was that they were not catastrophic failures, but had developed gradually over the years.

所有这些任务的另一个共同之处是，都不是灾难性的故障，不过却都是多年来逐渐积累起来的。

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All these things have changed dramatically in the past 70 years, but the changes haven't had the expected effects.

在过去的七十年里，所有的这些都戏剧性地改变了，但改变并没有取得预想的效果。

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But in the years since, these people tamed the land, leveling it by hand, expanding their plots acre by acre, until they had conquered it all.

但近几年，人们驯服了土地，亲手改造它，将他们一英亩一英亩地按计划整顿，直到他们已经完全征服了它。

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Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

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It did spark off certain pictures in my mind of these imaginary landscapes that I had built up in my head over all of these years.

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You know, years ago before we had all these vaccines, that fever, that temperature rise over a course of hours can insult a child's brain.

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"All these drugs had been approved on different dates and different years creating doubt if disappearance was accidental, " says the report, adding that all these were "controversial" drugs: one was never marketed in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia and other countries, while the other two were discontinued.

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