You would purge the planet of industrial civilisation, at the cost of billions of lives, only to discover that you have not invoked "a saner world" but just another phase of destruction.

你会以数十亿生命的代价来清除地球的工业文明，却只能发现你并没有带来“一个更理智的世界”，结果只是另一个阶段的破坏。

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If you find yourself frustrated by your new program's shortcomings, you just had another prototyping phase.

如果您发现自己对新程序的缺点感到沮丧，您只需再执行另外一个原型化阶段。

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I just think I reached another stage in my life and marriage is part of that next phase of my life - rather than marriage affecting the rest of my life.

我想我只是到达了我人生的另一个阶段，婚姻是我这段人生新旅程的一部分——而不是说婚姻影响了我剩馀的人生。

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But Fusion was just another phase in a long career for Shorter.

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Until recently, the promise of a referendum from Mr Cameron was seen in Washington as just another phase in the rocky relationship between the UK and continental Europeans.

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One young person was told to "go home and eat a burger", and another was told that they were just going through "a phase".

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