In his final appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Craddock said NATO member nations have fallen short on providing the number of combat forces and trainers that Afghanistan needs, and even on providing promised funding to help build the country's own security forces.

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Of course death can be the final consequence of this, but even short of death, a number of very bad things can happen.

并有可能最终导致死亡,即使不考虑死亡,仍存在一系列的负面影响

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Okay, well the interesting thing is, you guys in a very short period of time generated a number of ideas about what this could be.

好,有意思的是,大家在很短时间内,猜出了很多种东西

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You can call your broker and say, I'd like to short stock number one and what the broker will do is borrow the shares on your behalf and sell them and then you own negative shares.

你可以打电话给你的经纪人说，我要做空一号股票,经纪人就会在你的名下赊入这些股票,然后卖掉,这样你就拥有数量为负的股票了。

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