Abroad, America has spent vast amounts of blood and treasure, to little purpose.

在国外，美国漫无目的地花费了巨大的血汗和财富。

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Indeed, there is little to stop the vast, impoverished majority from stopping at the elite's wealth; why not deny the elite life and liberty as well?

事实上，要阻止广大贫困的大众在社会上层集团的财富面前停下来是微不足道的：为什么不把社会上层集团的生活和自由也否认了呢？

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Fertilizer runoff is responsible for a vast "dead zone," an oxygen-depleted region where little or no sea life can exist, in the Gulf of Mexico.

对大面积“死水区域”来说化肥残留物是罪魁祸首，在墨西哥湾，氧气耗尽的死水区域几乎没有海洋生物生存。

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It would also have to work out how to run a vast country with little infrastructure, no tradition of private property and a mere 57, 000 people.

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And thus the spectacle of slow cross-country trains that should have been allowed to die when Amtrak took over from the freight railroads in 1971 but continue to roll at the cost of vast subsidies with little or no public benefit.

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That assumption may be worth re-examining, not only because China's vast state apparatus shows little interest in shedding control but also because some Western markets are starting to look a bit more like China's.

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