The biggest is the fate of an American helicopter base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa.

其中最受关注的就是，未来美国在冲绳岛的直升机基地将何去何从？

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The fascinated penguins approached Mr Schultz each day as he hiked from a helicopter base camp to the main Emperor rookery.

每天，当舒尔茨从直升机营地徒步走向帝企鹅栖息地时，着了迷的企鹅都会靠近他。

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That guy took off in an Astra, came down in a parachute, and landed back at base in a helicopter.

那个人冲出阿斯特拉号战斗机，乘着降落伞落到地面，又坐着直升飞机回到了基地。

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For the third day, Free Syrian Army fighters tried to wrest control of the helicopter base from government forces.

CNN: January 4, 2013 -- Updated 1723 GMT (0123 HKT)

In late December, the citizens of Nago, a town in Okinawa's impoverished rural north, voted by 54% to 46% not to let the American Marine Corps moor a floating helicopter base off the beach, near its existing Camp Schwab.

ECONOMIST: Left on the beach

Along with Okinawa's governor, Keiichi Inamine, Mr Kishimoto is insisting that the lease on the helicopter base to be built in Nago next to an existing Marine Corps camp should be granted to the United States for no more than 15 years.

ECONOMIST: How the Americans got their base