When one weighs the opposing forces, the elements of space and time, and the sea-land transfer problem, one sees that Churchill’s foot-dragging made sense。

如果我们衡量一下双方的兵力，时间与空间的要素，以及海陆转运问题等时，我们就会明白，邱吉尔迟迟未能采取行动是合情合理的。

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U.S. forces are poised for a massive air, land, and sea assault.

美军做好了随时从空中、陆地和海上发动大规模攻击的准备。

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After ten days at sea, we had our first sight of land.

我们在海上航行十天之后，首次看见陆地。

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Hell notify the life-saving people. Slowly and beautifully, the land rose from the sea.

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We forget about the enormous trading vitality of Asia, even sea vitality and land vitality at the same time, but they are without any question by this point-- with the decline of the Spanish empire, which begins before this course-- the Dutch and the English.

我们先不考虑亚洲大量的贸易活动,包括同时的陆上和海上贸易,在十七世纪之前,随着西班牙帝国的衰退,欧洲最大的贸易实体,毫无疑问是荷兰和英国

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But he says in the long-run the solution to piracy will not be found at sea,but on land.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

As a result, the Levin proposal was adopted by the Committee on a straight party-line vote even though it cut funds from air-, sea- and land-based programs that have long enjoyed the support of legislators like Max Cleland of Georgia and Jack Reed of Rhode Island.

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Specifically, there has been no decision to ensure dual-capability in the next generation of tactical aircraft, and there is no planning for a next generation of a sea-based nuclear land-attack missile.

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But since then the Administration hasn't gone all out to pursue critical steps even with its sea- and land-based programs.

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