After all, who in his right mind would seek a lousy old patent offering a mere 20 years of protection when copyright can provide monopoly rights for up to 70 years after the author's death?

毕竟著作权可在作者去世后提供多达70年的保护，只要是脑筋正常的人会舍此而追求糟糕的旧专利提供仅仅20年的保护嘛？

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The first thing to be said about such criticisms, of which the foregoing is a mere sampling, is that they cannot all be right.

对于这些指责，首先不得不说的是，迪米特里的责难也只是一部分人的看法而已，不都有道理。

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Much harder to figure out is which bits of the global architecture need mere tweaking, which need retooling or replacing—and who should have the right to decide.

而难以弄清楚的地方是全球系统的哪一部分只需小修一下，哪里又要翻新甚至重整一番——和谁有权做这样的决定。

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On the 6th, Sherman was out inspecting the encampment, took out his looking glass and was observing to his left, when the confederate line emerged from the brush to his right, a mere 100 yards away.

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Right now the system partitions a mere 16MB for storing games, although this might change.

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