"There's a new recognition in the global debate that while security efforts in Afghanistan are exceedingly important,critical, we can never succeed if we don't manage to build a basic state with basic governance that can provide basic security in the area between Central Asia and South Asia,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

We might say, even if we are smart enough to build programs that can, by mechanistically following the program, do things we've never thought of.

我们或许说,即使我们非常聪明,可以编制些,能够机械地执行指令的程序,做一些我们从来没想到的事情

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They never figured out how to build gauges properly.

他们也从来认真不测量轨距

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