Sometimes, villagers hide out for weeks because they don't know if it's safe to go back yet. Sometimes, it never is. Htoo Moo needed to get back to work.

但对村民们来说，如果感觉回家不安全，他们会在外面躲上几个礼拜之久，有时候甚至是再也回不去了。

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They want it as a weapon. If we let it go, we will never get it back.

他们想要它作为一种武器。如果我去掉它，我们就绝不会再得到。

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"I couldn't say when the astronauts would get back or how much spacecraft we'd have left when they did, " he said. "But I never questioned that they'd survive."

“我无法回答宇航员何时能够回家，也无法回答当他们返航时飞船还能留下多少，”他说，“但我从未怀疑过他们一定能够生还”。

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And for passengers, such as Manzoor Hussain and his family, the situation has cost them time they can never get back.

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