She had to sit down on the dry, hard ground and look down into the valley and all about her.

她不得不坐在干燥坚硬的地面上，俯视着山谷和周围的一切。

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Even leaving aside the perennial distraction of Myanmar, a repressive military dictatorship that Western allies find hard to sit down with, mutual mistrust and outright hostility between countries make a mockery of ASEAN's encomiums on unity.

ECONOMIST: Vague hopes of integration and messy bilateral squabbles