He was too smart to just push ahead at flank speed and try to get out in eight months, or even in eighteen.

他太聪明了，不会盲目地加快速度推进，想在八个月或甚至十八个月内逃出去。

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However, there's one other variable that you want to be aware of and that is, he knows he ought to be going straight ahead like that, but he also knows that his right flank is open.

然而,还有其他变数是必须考虑到的,那就是,士兵知道他是向前直行的,但是,他同样知道他的右路是洞开的

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Victor Moses fired the Latics ahead after cutting in from the left flank.

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Jonny Lomax, preferred ahead of Ade Gardner on the right flank, added the conversion but the Dragons replied three minutes later when Carlaw caught Saints cold, galloping through a gap to the right channel to breach the home line.

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