In a few billion years our own Milky Way will smash into our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, and perhaps it will look something like this to the aliens watching from afar.

在经过数十亿年之后，我们所处的银河系将一头撞进的邻近的星系仙女座，这样的结局也许遥远的外星人会有幸见到。

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From afar it may look as if Iraq could not fall any lower.

从长远来看，伊拉克最糟糕的情况似乎也莫过如此。

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Look around you and you will soon notice that someone very special has been watching you from afar.

环顾一下四周，你会发现有人已经在远处注视了你很久。

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But look, Tal Afar was an area that we had secured - we have secured the population and we changed the level of violence rather dramatically, we enfranchised the local leadership.

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The screen, in particular, is ringed with a wide band of shiny stuff -- it has a subtle metallic sheen if you look closely, but from afar it just looks plain and tacky.

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Then, it was into a Land Rover to get a closer look at the sprawling landscape I had been admiring from afar.

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