Politicians, like generals, suffer from a tendency to fight the last war.

政客就像将军们一样，也会饱受要坚持到最后一战的困扰。

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Too often bosses, like generals, dislike being away from the heat of battle, and use their past heroic status to undermine their successors and lobby for their own return.

很多老板就像将军一样，不愿意离开战斗的激情，而且他们经常利用其英雄地位不知不觉地损害继任者，并为他们的返回找说辞。

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Maybe I’m like those generals who are always fighting the last war, but I am not reassured.

也许我就像那些决战时的将军，但是却又不太确定。

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But for right now, all you need to know is that all of these generals, although they were Macedonians and spoke Macedonian and not themselves Greek, but they had, just like Alexander, they had adopted Greek language, Greek culture.

不过目前，你们只要知道所有四位将领，虽然都是马其顿人，说马其顿语,不是希腊人，但是他们和亚历山大一样，使用希腊语，希腊文化。

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