As our third day drew to a close, many of us due to get out at Irkutsk the next morning were almost sad not to be going all the way to Vladivostok (by now only another three nights away).

第三天接近尾声了。很多次日上午在伊尔库茨克下车的人对未能乘完全程到达符拉迪沃斯托克颇感悲伤，到现在为止只要再过三个夜晚就可以到达那里了。

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It sounded so sad that I almost cried along with it as I listened.

它听起来如此悲伤，我听的时候快要哭了。

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Therein lies a sad truth with Strategic Designers, they are always almost part of a team and rarely individuals.

其中存在一个关于战略设计师的悲哀的事实，他们很少是个人，几乎总是一个团队的部分。

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While these were only oil on canvas, cast in bronze or forged in steel, not living people, the tragedy is minimized but their destruction is almost as sad, because it was equally needless and equally barbaric.

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