The immediate future is clear, but it's hard to tell what lies beyond.

最近的将来已经明朗，但更往后就很难说了。

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Nature is indeed like a riddle, some areas of which are beyond the reach of science and technology, at least in the foreseeable future.

大自然确实像一个谜，其中一些领域是科学技术无法触及的，至少在可预见的未来是这样。

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But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

但是如果我们想继续生存下去超过一百年，我们将来就应该去太空。

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Cox, 46, said the leadership question goes beyond the future of the Republican Party.

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Here, even as we confront the challenges before us, we can look beyond the horizon to the different future that peace makes possible.

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The problem could be that while Internet types are trying to think a year or two into the future, science fiction writers are way beyond that, worrying about the future of the universe rather than the future of stock options.

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