Trying to achieve goals without writing them down is a sure way to get lost along the way, or worse, never getting to where we need to be.

试图达成目标却又不将目标记下必定会在路途中迷失，或者更糟糕的是永远不会抵达我们想要到达的地方。

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Flying over enemy territory with a camera on autoshoot, pigeons could provide crucial information without getting lost along the way.

带着可以自动拍照的照相机飞过地方的领空，鸽子可以在不迷路的情况下为人类获得关键的情报。

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SHANGHAI — Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert— it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost.

穿越东欧，俄罗斯，哈萨克斯坦和戈壁滩到达上海，这显然是一条很长并且容易迷路的路程。

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Conterintuitive to think that we can continue to go on this way without it costing us a lost decade-or worse.

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He wanted to take them into bankruptcy without providing them any way to stay open, and we would have lost a million jobs.

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Long story short, the upgrade runs into complications, data is lost, and without a backup to revert to, untold thousands of Sidekick users get shafted in an epic way rarely seen in an age of well-defined, well-understood IT strategies.

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