We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.

我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。

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and as we all know radically turned to an opposite direction and the reason that it did.

正如我们所知道的，塔利班分子变成了一股更强大的势利。

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I mean Thoreau may have been a snob, he may have been smarmy, and he may have wanted you to think he was cool because he sold pencils.

我的意思是,梭罗也许个势利小人,他也许有点爱说奉承话,他也许觉得卖铅笔,会让你们认为他很酷

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