"The new strategy actually has worked, and it has reduced the number of civilian casualties,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

The London Times, in 1889, said this is going to be a fiasco, there are going to be so many mistakes, and there are going to be so many complaints that this whole system is going to crumble and fall; but it didn't, it actually worked.

伦敦时报在1889年，曾预言这绝对行不通，将会有许多大大小小的问题，人们会对此怨声载道,然后整个体系土崩瓦解;,然而这些都未发生，这个体系运转良好。

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I actually do get worked up over these things because it drives me nuts because these are not hard problems to solve and yet consistently throughout society and your own laptops there are dozens of examples I'm sure of poorly designed software.

我确实对这些东西很生气,因为它令我发狂,因为这不是很难解决的难题,然而贯穿整个社会,在你自己的笔记本上，我确信有很多这样,设计地很挫的软件的例子。

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I mean they were underestimating the amount they were eating so it was--it worked in-- it made them look better then they were actually doing.

他们低估了所消耗食物的总量,所以这是,这使得他们吃得看起来比实际的少

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