Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.

那两个老兄弟几天前吵了一架，吵得相当厉害，最后同意打个赌来决定，这是英国人解决一切问题的方式。

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Or maybe it just seems that way - they had always been there, we just forgot about them for a while.

或许它只是看上去这样，而实际上它们一直存在着，只是我们把它们遗忘了一段时间。

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I explained that I had no way to remember it all: it was in my notes, which had been taken when I was captured.

我解释说，我不可能记住所有这些内容：我把这些记在本子上，但在我被捕的时候本子被拿走了。

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"I think these things can move in parallel. Obviously,it would be easier if these things had come out in a different way, and been conducted without the kind of irregularities that have been identified,"

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Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

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It was such a false start, it almost looked as if it had been planned that way.

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I'm sure the Swiss would have done the same if it had been the other way around.

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It had been on its way to deliver a load of empty plastic crisp packets to a local business.

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