"I don't think anything there was a surprise. What the assessment says is basically, things are catastrophically bad in Afghanistan, which is,I'd say, objectively true, but that things are not unsalvageable, that we can turn this around as long as we stay dedicated to the appropriate strategy and fully resource that strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Anyway, my mother tried to paint me, but I'd never hold still long enough.

我母亲也试过给我画肖像,可我总是坐不住

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So I'd be forced to stay a long time and not enjoy myself.

我就不得不被迫留下来，却玩得不尽兴。

I'm going实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I--We were going D G B G B so as long as the notes have the same names or it sounds the same, even though there may be octave doubling in there we still think of that as monophonic texture.

我,我们只要,D G B G B,只要各个音的音名一样或听起来一样,尽管其中有双八度音,我们仍把它作为做单音织体

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