And that has not been done yet." But Suleiman says funding shortfalls and concerns over security and violence in Somalia make it unlikely such surveys will be carried out any time soon.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

They are not going to change any time soon.

这些本性不会很快改变。

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Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

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