A herder serenades his goats near Jerusalem, a few miles from where David tended his herds.

一位在耶路撒冷附近放牧的牧民正在吹奏小曲，这里离当年大卫放牧羊群的地方只有几公里。

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“It's like the marathon: if you're five miles behind, you can't make that up in the last 10 minutes of the race,” said David H.

这就像马拉松一样：如果你落后了五英里，你根本不可能在比赛的最后十分钟赶上来。

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In a recent speech, David Miles, an external member of the MPC and academic economist, said no.

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However, King, Paul Fisher and David Miles, were outvoted by the six others, who preferred to keep policy unchanged.

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It's not clear - to David Miles anyway - that you get any extra benefit from resorting to a helicopter drop.

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