Bill Dudley, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, captured the mood in a recent speech, bluntly titled “A bit better, but very far from best”.

纽约联邦储备银行总裁B.D在最近的一次演讲中捕捉到大众的情绪，坦率地指出“略有好转，但离最好相去甚远”。

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Her parents are very tolerant, but sometimes she pushes them too far.

她的父母十分宽容，但她有时也让他们忍无可忍。

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It seemed very far, but he heard it as distinctly as if it had been at his very side.

它似乎很远，但他听得清清楚楚，就好像它就在他身边一样。

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It is not far from Bryce. But it is very different.

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But the great thinkers were very far from being just so to speak detached intellectuals.

但是伟大思想家根本不是,所谓的隐世知识分子。

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At that point,the gods don't like it because like the Judeo-Christian god, they want to have some boundary between the two,but for them it's very important, because the boundary is far from clear.

这样的话,诸神自然不高兴,就像犹太-基督教中的神灵一样,诸神需要人神之间有一道界限,这对诸神而言是非常重要的,因为界限本身就是模糊不清的

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But not very far back.

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Robust debate, perhaps, but that is very far from unknown in the Commons.

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Otherwise Russia may risk being the eternal debutante: chattering prettily to all her suitors, but never getting very far with any of them.

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