鉴于需要很久才能设计，开发，购置和部署新的军事能力，即使我们找到了百分之八十的解决方案也不够。

Given how long it takes to design, develop, acquire and deploy new military capabilities, even if we settle for the 80 percent solution that is right around the corner.

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很久以前，你的祖先渴望死亡却不能有意识地令之达成。

Long ago, one's ancestors desired to die, but could not consciously command it.

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跑步专家已经认识到这个问题，很久以前就制定了一个简单易行的百分之十的原则：每个星期的训练里程数不要增加多于10%。

Running experts have recognized this problem, and long ago devised an easy-to-use 10-percent rule: Build your weekly training mileage by no more than 10 percent per week.

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You've read at this point, long since, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych.

你们很久以前就读到过这个观点，托尔斯泰的Ivan，Ilych之死。

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