It doesn't really matter as long as we're comfortable talking about entire space-time worm, the car and the slices, or the stages.

只要我们接受,它整个是条时空虫,可以接受它的切分，阶段,这样就可以了。

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An oil truck as long as a railroad car was behind him.

一辆像有轨电车那么长的,油罐车停在了他身后。

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That car stage or that car slice if we want to talk about that way it has only been around for however long months, years, a year.

那辆车的阶段或者部分,如果我们非要分析的话,只能持续很短时间,几个月，几年，或者一年。

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