从这漫长的困惑和反复的过程中我们所学到的是不要再对官方的一再承诺抱有希望。
The lesson of this long process of obfuscation and retreat is to place no faith in official statements of reassurance.
科学家在每年漫长的冬季来临前只有三个月的工作时间，而且由于抵达地点也很困难，这段时间还要再缩短。
Scientists only have a three-month window to work each year before the long winter sets in, and that window can be shortened by how hard it is to get there.
那不是一场瞬间崩塌，相反这个过程会持续数小时，数天，甚至数星期之久，先是掉下细小岩石，之后是一段漫长的惨寂，再然后将迎来更大规模的滑坡。
Instead of a single, sudden, overwhelming collapse, there can be hours, days and even weeks punctuated by small fusillades of rock, long eerie silences and then bigger falls.
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