但如果未能做到这一点，下一场危机就离我们越来越近。

But failure to do so will leave the clock ticking down towards the next crisis.

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移动搜索几年来离我们越来越近，但至今仍未实现。

Mobile search has been on the way for years, but it never arrived.

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看起来可再生能源正离我们越来越近。

Looks like renewable energy is moving in the direction we need.

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Okay. So that's Richard Strauss's approach to death, not particularly relevant to you young people but for oldergentlemen such as Professor Kagan and myself we're getting close to that. Right, Don?

理查·施特劳斯的死亡与净化讲的是死亡,对你们年轻人可能有些距离,但对于我和卡根教授这些老绅士来说,我们离死亡越来越近,对吧,先生

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